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• Dropbox files for IPO of up to $500 million

  23-02-2018 22:57
  (Reuters) - Data-sharing business Dropbox Inc on Friday filed for an initial public offering of up to $500 million with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  
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• Self-driving cars with "remote" drivers could test on Calif roads in April: DMV

  23-02-2018 19:00
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Self-driving cars that back up their computerized system with a remote human operator instead of a fallback driver at the wheel could be tested on California roads as early as April, the state department of motor vehicles said.
  
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• Easy Ride trial to mark Nissan's first stop on road to taxi services

  23-02-2018 18:01
  YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co is taking its first steps to becoming an operator of autonomous vehicle services, hoping to break into a segment set to be dominated by Uber [UBER.UL] and other technology firms.
  
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• Virtual reality coronation takes dementia patients down memory lane

  23-02-2018 17:45
  HINDHEAD, England (Reuters) - For 93-year-old Daphne Padfield, a dementia sufferer in an English care home, the arrival of a virtual reality (VR) headset offered a window back to the day in 1953 when Britain crowned its new queen.
  
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• Mobile industry promises smarter everything at Barcelona show

  23-02-2018 17:42
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Two words - artificial intelligence - promise to upstage familiar technology industry themes like 5G, the Internet of Things and virtual reality at next week's Mobile World Congress, Europe's biggest annual technology industry gathering.
  
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• Google raises price of YouTube TV, adds sports, Turner

  23-02-2018 17:06
  (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is raising the price of its YouTube TV online service for new customers as it adds channels from Time Warner Inc's Turner, National Basketball League and Major League Baseball, the company said Wednesday.
  
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• Smartphone sales grew last year despite historic quarterly decline

  23-02-2018 15:54
  The fourth quarter of 2017 saw a decline in smartphone sales globally -- the first year-on-year decline since Gartner started tracking the global smartphone market in 2004 -- but the full-year result was one of growth.
  
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• HPE shares soar on $7 billion repurchase plan, upbeat forecast

  23-02-2018 15:47
  (Reuters) - Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterpriserose 7 percent to a record in early trading on Friday after the company unveiled a $7 billion share buyback program, reported strong quarterly results and raised its full-year profit forecast.
  
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• 'Sooner, faster, now' - the companies surfing the e-commerce wave

  23-02-2018 14:33
  LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon'sassault on the retail industry has brought misery to traditional retailers without a strong web presence.
  
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• Tencent, JD.com buy stakes in Chinese retail chain

  23-02-2018 12:01
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Holdings and JD.com will pay $140 million and $117 million respectively for minority stakes in a Chinese retail chain as China's tech giants extend their battles in the retail space.
  
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• What’s new in Google’s Dart language

  23-02-2018 12:00
  Dart 2 has been rebooted for client-side web and mobile development
  
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• Airbnb CEO pledges to take more responsibility for impact to housing

  23-02-2018 10:53
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Home-booking company Airbnb has sparred with regulators across the globe, but Chief Executive Brian Chesky on Thursday spoke of coming to terms with his responsibility for how the company can impact housing markets and neighborhoods.
  
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• What to Expect at MWC 2018 from Samsung, LG, HTC, Nokia, Huawei & More

  23-02-2018 03:05
  MWC 2018 starts on Monday, though most of the big press conferences we've been waiting for will be held on the Sunday before everything kicks off. We outline what new products to expect from the consumer tech scene's biggest names.
  
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• Conan package manager brings C and C++ to devops

  23-02-2018 00:55
  The multiplatform package manager builds and shares native binaries
  
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