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John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft, on the firm's self-driving vision: semi-autonomous cars on fixed routes by 2017, fully autonomous fleets by 2022 — Expect to see semi-autonomous vehicles driving on fixed routes by 2017 in a subscription model.| Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide: |
iPhone 7, 7 Plus cameras don't produce as sharp or well exposed images as Samsung's Galaxy S7 line, but OIS, f/1.8 aperture, 2x optical zoom are major upgrades — While their resolution may have stayed the same, the 12-megapixel rear cameras in Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus look offer a big improvement in picture quality.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Oracle launches new cloud computing and storage offerings to compete with AWS, as Larry Ellison says “Amazon's lead is over” at OpenWorld conference — Just as Larry Ellison said it would, Oracle has unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers … | Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: |
As Netflix asserts itself, studios and cable channels fret that the streaming company is headed for a near-monopoly in entertainment — The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Wearable tech company Thalmic Labs raises $120 million from Intel, Amazon, and others — Thalmic Labs, the Canada-based wearable technology company, has announced a substantial $120 million (USD) Series B funding round led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Fidelity Investments Canada.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle buys Palerra, a cloud security startup co-founded by Oracle alums Rohit Gupta and Ganesh Kirti, which had raised $25M — Oracle is kicking off a big customer confab in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it's announced an acquisition. Oracle is buying Palerra …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Apple Pay on the web makes it much easier for websites to acquire new customers on mobile — Apple's not talking about it. Tim Cook and company are too busy trumpeting a new iPhone that's pretty much like the old iPhone (except there's—gasp—no headphone jack!).
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce debuts Einstein AI platform that integrates with many Salesforce products like Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, and forms Salesforce Research group — Salesforce is announcing today the launch of its Einstein artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform that's implemented into several … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google Maps lead Jen Fitzpatrick on the advantages that rich geographic data gives Google in smart assistant race — Over the last several months, Google has mapped out a vision of its future where you'll have a smart assistant following you from phone to wrist to flatscreen and beyond …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Former lead World of Warcraft designer Rob Pardo raises $25M for his new startup, Bonfire Studios, from Andreessen Horowitz and Riot Games — Big video games, like movies, are usually created by squadrons of people, including dozens or hundreds of artists and developers.
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Microsoft to close Skype's London office, making close to 400 employees redundant, as part of its global restructuring — Microsoft will shut down Skype's London offices, making most of its employees redundant, and terminating the headquarters of a rare European technology champion.| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
How Salesforce Ventures, which has backed at least 31 startups this year, has seen success and avoided clashes with Salesforce CEO Benioff, an active investor — Cloud company's VC arm has backed at least 31 startups so far this year. VC chief sees boss Benioff as more collaborator than competitor.
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