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• Tesla sets massive stock awards for Musk based on boosting market value

  23-01-2018 23:42
  BANGALORE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk could earn as much as $55.8 billion in Tesla Inc stock and own more than a quarter of the electric car company in the next decade if he hits all targets of a bold new pay plan.
  
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• Facebook buys Boston software company that authenticates IDs

  23-01-2018 23:29
  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Incis buying a software firm that specializes in authenticating government-issued identification cards, the two companies said on Tuesday, a step that may help the social media giant learn more about the people who buy ads on its network.
  
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• What’s new in the Bootstrap 4 web development framework

  23-01-2018 23:05
  The mobile-first framework uses Sass variables and mixins, the Bootstrap grid system, and prebuilt components
  
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• Texas Instruments fails to beat earnings estimates, shares fall

  23-01-2018 22:48
  (Reuters) - Chipmaker Texas Instruments Inc'sfourth-quarter earnings failed to exceed Wall Street expectations after several quarters of better-than-expected results, sending its shares down 5 percent on Tuesday.
  
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• Apple launches HomePod voice speaker, takes on Google, Amazon

  23-01-2018 22:18
  (Reuters) - After missing the critical holiday shopping season, Apple Inc has jumped into the voice speaker wars with the HomePod smart speaker, a device that will use its Siri voice assistant and compete against offerings from Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
  
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• Qualcomm set to be fined by EU antitrust regulators: FT

  23-01-2018 22:03
  (Reuters) - The European Union is set to fine U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc for taking advantage of its dominance when it paid Apple Inc to use its chips exclusively in Apple mobile devices, The Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Online lender SoFi nabs Twitter executive Noto as CEO

  23-01-2018 21:03
  (Reuters) - Wall Street banker turned Silicon Valley executive Anthony Noto has left Twitter Incto become chief executive officer of online lender Social Finance Inc, the companies said on Tuesday.
  
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• Researchers look to open source to tackle deadly infection

  23-01-2018 21:00
  An approach to pharmaceutical research inspired by open source software development could help find a treatment for mycetoma, a fungal infection that in a significant number of cases can require amputation.
  
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• Researchers look to open source approach to tackle deadly infection

  23-01-2018 21:00
  An approach to pharmaceutical research inspired by open source software development could help find a treatment for mycetoma, a fungal infection that in a significant number of cases can require amputation.
  
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• Venezuela says 'petro' cryptocurrency pre-sale will be in hard currency

  23-01-2018 20:51
  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's "petro" cryptocurrency will initially be offered in a pre-sale in hard currency and other cryptocurrencies, the government said on Tuesday, and not initially available in the country's collapsing bolivar currency.
  
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• Facebook to hand privacy controls to users ahead of EU law

  23-01-2018 19:42
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook will make it easier for its more than 2 billion users to manage their own data in response to a tough new European Union law that comes into force in May, the social network's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said.
  
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• What is disaster recovery?

  23-01-2018 19:41
  Organizations prepare for disaster with disaster recovery plans that detail the process by which they can resume mission-critical functions quickly and without major losses in revenues or business operations.
  
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• Self-driving car experts offer online degree in 'flying cars'

  23-01-2018 19:22
  (Reuters) - Self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first "nanodegree" in flying car engineering.
  
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• Google gets into audiobooks as rivalry with Amazon heats up

  23-01-2018 18:33
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google introduced audiobooks to its online store on Tuesday, making its smart speakers and virtual assistant more competitive with Amazon.com Inc's Echo devices and Alexa voice assistant.
  
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• Microsoft shoots for AutoSave parity in Mac Office 365

  23-01-2018 13:34
  Office for Mac 2016 gets an auto-save feature matching what Windows users have had since last August. AutoSave is available only to Office for Mac 2016 users who also subscribe to Office 365.
  
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• Trello overhauls app directory for ‘Power-Up’ integrations

  23-01-2018 13:23
  Last year's Atlassian acquisition has helped grow the number of third-party applications connecting with the collaborative work management tool.
  
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