Apple to raise prices of apps and in-app purchases by ~25% in 3 regions, making the lowest app prices now 99p in UK, 80 rupees in India, and 3.49 lira in Turkey
UK costs will numerically match those of the US, meaning that a program that costs $0.99 will now be 99p.
Airbus CEO Tom Enders says company hopes to fly prototype of single-person, self-piloting flying car by the end of 2017
Airbus Group plans to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads by the end of the year, the aerospace group's chief executive said on Monday.
Raspberry Pi upgrades its $30 Compute Module for embedded computing with 10x the CPU performance at 1.2GHz and twice the RAM at 1GB
Compute Module for embedded computing gets first big upgrade since 2014. — The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is getting a big upgrade …
Baidu hires AI specialist and former Microsoft EVP Qi Lu as group president and chief operating officer to oversee and develop AI technologies
AI specialist Qi Lu becomes Baidu's COO and president — Lu will oversee Baidu's efforts to develop AI technologies
Intel launches new IoT retail platform called Responsive Retail Platform and announces plan to invest $100M over next five years in the retail tech sector
The platform works to bring together retail hardware, software, APIs and sensors in a standardized way.
WSJ: new investors in Snap IPO won't get any voting power; founders Spiegel and Murphy, who own 45% of Snap's stock, will retain 70%+ of voting rights
Spiegel and Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy want to retain management control of their company. — Before Facebook went public …
Priceline co-founder Jay Walker launches Upside.com, a business travel startup, with $50M funding at a $200M+ valuation
Jay Walker raised money for Upside.com at $200M valuation — Startup is aimed at helping business travelers find deals — One of the pioneers of online travel booking …
Nvidia Shield TV 2017 review: best balance for home entertainment with smart home features, gaming, streaming 4K HDR video, and the upcoming Google assistant
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Sources: publishers think it's unlikely Facebook will renew paid livestreaming deals, as it has been pushing them to focus on creating longer content
Publishers don't expect Facebook to renew the deals it was pushing last spring; now Facebook wants something else.
Google publishes paper detailing its cloud security strategy, including the deployment of custom chips on servers and peripherals
Even the servers it colocates (!) says new docu revealing Alphabet sub's security secrets — Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview …
Video conferencing startup Zoom raises $100M Series D round led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B+ valuation, plans to invest in VR and AR
Zoom Video Communications, Inc., the Santa Clara-based startup that's bidding to disrupt the online video communications industry, has just landed …
Bragi's $150 The Headphone wireless earbuds are finally shipping
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With Google's RAISR machine learning-driven image enhancement technique, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing their detail
With unlimited data plans becoming increasingly expensive, or subscribers being forced to ditch their unlimited data due to overuse, anything that can reduce the amount of data we download is welcome.
Alibaba bids $2.6B for a controlling stake in Chinese mall operator Intime this week, a 42% premium over Intime's price when stock trading was halted on Dec. 28
New York Times :
Measure raises $15M Series B led by IT services firm Cognizant, to fly drones as a service for other companies
Measure may not be building the ultimate flying camera, or drones that drop burritos at your door. But the Washington D.C.-based startup has raised $15 million in a Series B round …
Israeli smartphone dual-camera maker Corephotonics raises $15M led by Samsung, Foxconn, and Mediatek, bringing its total raised to $50M
Tali Tsipori / Globes Online :
How Amazon's Echo made Alexa the most successful smart voice assistant at home, and how Google, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting back
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider :
Google's head of Daydream Labs and the director of immersive design speak about the challenges of building Daydream and pushing the boundaries of VR
David Pierce / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @googlevr Tweets: @wired : Google's VR designers could help usher in the most immersive, natural, human version of computing ever conceived http://www.wired....
Xiaomi stops disclosing annual smartphone unit sales numbers; CEO admits the company grew “too fast”, hints at new retail strategy incorporating offline sales
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Corporate PACs associated with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon donated more money to Republican Congressional candidates than Democratic opponents in 2016
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times : Tweets: @went1955 Tweets: Robert Went / @went1955 : History is pretty clear: Heroic entrepreneurs of one decade often turn into the insider capitalists of the next...
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