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Sources: Samsung is developing a voice-activated smart speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, internally code-named Vega, with release date TBD — Samsung is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Nokia and Xiaomi sign a business collaboration agreement and multi-year patent deal, which includes cross-licensing for cellular standard essential patents — The deal will give the companies access to a wider pool of patents and equipment. — Nokia and Xiaomi have signed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon confirms Voicebot's analysis: Alexa has over 15K skills, up from 10K in February; Voicebot says Google Home has 378 voice apps and Cortana has 65 — Amazon's Alexa voice platform has now passed 15,000 skills — the voice-powered apps that run on devices like the Echo speaker, Echo Dot, newer Echo Show and others.
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| Luke Parker / Brave New Coin: |
South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb, was hacked; info of some users accessed and later used in phishing attacks to steal funds from accounts — The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, was recently hacked.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Ticketmaster unveils ticketing app that uses Lisnr tech to send data over audio between devices, for ticket-less check-ins and tracking locations of users — Ticketmaster will soon be able to admit you to live events and track your movement using nothing more than a discrete digital audio broadcast from your smartphone.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba launches Tmall Genie, a voice assistant-controlled speaker for Chinese customers, available in limited beta — Tencent, Baidu also developing their own home assistants — The Tmall Genie will sell for 499 yuan during its trial period — The competition in digital speaker-assistants …
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| Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Baidu forms alliance with 50+ partners for its Apollo self-driving vehicle platform, including 12 Chinese car makers, Ford, Bosch, Nvidia, and Microsoft Cloud — Baidu, the operator of China's largest search engine, said it has formed what it claims to be one of the world's largest …
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New regulations in China require at least two “auditors” to vet all audiovisual content posted online to ensure it adheres to “core socialist values” — China's latest maneuvre in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers … | Chad Bray / New York Times: |
Vantiv to acquire British payment processing company Worldpay in a deal valued at $10B; Worldpay accounts for 42% of all retail transactions in Britain — LONDON — Worldpay Group, the British payment processing company, said on Wednesday that it had agreed in principle to be acquired by Vantiv …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
FTC: Broadcom agrees to provide separate facilities and IT systems for Cisco chip production after Brocade deal to remedy anti-competitive concerns — On Monday, the FTC said that it was putting special provisions in place to protect Cisco from potential damage from the acquisition of its competitor, Brocade.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Baidu acquires Seattle-based natural language startup Kitt.ai, which helps build and power chatbots and voice-based apps across multiple platforms and devices — China's search giant Baidu has made another acquisition to continue its push into artificial intelligence, and specifically to help … | Jack Stubbs / Reuters: |
Ukraine scrambles to mitigate backdoor found in M.E. Doc software used by 80% of Ukrainian firms, says all devices on networks that had M.E. Doc are vulnerable — The Ukrainian software firm used as part of last week's global cyber attack warned on Wednesday that all computers sharing … Sponsor Posts
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