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Facebook misses out in $600M bid for Indian cricket streaming rights

By Mike Wheatley Sep 4, 2017

Facebook Inc. underlined how serious its video streaming ambitions are with the news Monday that it made a failed bid to secure the digital live streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament,…

Emerging Tech

Sequoia and IDG invest $50M into Chinese bitcoin firm Bitmain

By Duncan Riley Sep 4, 2017

In an unusual move for the venture firm, famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, along with IDG Capital, have invested $50 million in Chinese bitcoin hardware maker and miner Bitmain Technologies Inc.…

Emerging Tech

Failed Lily drone is back, but it’s missing all the coolest features

By Eric David Sep 4, 2017

It looks like the cancelled Lily camera drone might be hitting the market after all, but this is not the flying GoPro alternative originally promised. Lily Robotics emerged from a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2015 on the promise of…

Cloud

Dell EMC, VMware rejuvenate and unify multicloud data protection

By R. Danes Sep 4, 2017

A large majority of enterprises have rejected the dichotomy of an either/or, on-premises data center versus public cloud. Today, 85 percent embrace a hybrid or multicloud strategy, according to RightScale’s “2017 State of the…

Apps

Carpooling startup Via nabs funding from Daimler for European push

By Maria Deutscher Sep 4, 2017

The competition in the ride-hailing market continues to intensify. Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz AG, today inked a partnership with Via Transportation Inc. to launch a joint carpooling service in Europe. The…

Emerging Tech

China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Regulators in China have banned all initial public coin offerings pending a review and the possible introduction of regulations to control the booming market. News that China was considering banning ICOs emerged last week…

Infra

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

The personal details of some 6 million Instagram users are being offered for sale online as employees of the app maker have been accused of selling account verification. Revelations that user details from Instagram had been hacked…

Emerging Tech

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has revealed a new chipset and reference design that moves the mobile chip giant into self-driving cars. The chipset, called the 9150 C-V2X (short for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything), facilitates vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Along with Qualcomm‘s C-V2X Reference Design,…

Emerging Tech

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Facial recognition may be the future of digital payments. A trial being run by Ant Financial Services Group, the financial payments arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and Yum China will allow customers to use…

Cloud

Thanks to LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft now leads enterprise software as a service

By Mike Wheatley Sep 3, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has retained its clear lead in the enterprise software as a service market, its business bolstered by the acquisition of the networking site LinkedIn Corp. in late 2016. Microsoft swooped to buy…

the latest

Sequoia and IDG invest $50M into Chinese bitcoin firm Bitmain

Failed Lily drone is back, but it’s missing all the coolest features

China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

Thanks to LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft now leads enterprise software as a service

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