"Silicon Valley Connection" Apple Watch official bracelet Price announced: 398 yuan

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1. Qualcomm intends to repurchase 15 billion US dollar shares: Quarterly dividend increase of 14%

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Qualcomm announced today that it would buy up to $15 billion worth of shares and raise quarterly dividends.

The plan will replace Qualcomm's previous 7.8 billion dollar share buyback program, which still has 2.1 billion dollars yet to complete. Qualcomm says it will buy back $10 billion in shares in the next 12 months.

2.Apple Watch official bracelet Price announced: 398 yuan

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Apple Watch is officially at Apple's official store, with an official strap on the shelves, at the 2015 spring conference in San Francisco's Herb Arts Center.

The page from Apple's official online store shows that there are six different styles of straps coming on sale, divided into different colors and sizes, and a total of 21, priced from 398 to 3588 yuan. Among them, the lowest price sports strap price 398 yuan, there are black (42 mm) and Pink (38 mm) two styles. and Milanis, strap classic buckle strap and leather back ring strap price is 1158 yuan; modern wind buckle strap price 1928 yuan, and the use of stainless steel chain bracelet price up to 3588 yuan.

3.Google release of Android 5.1 source code and Nexus Device factory image

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Google today officially released the Android 5.1 operating system, which has added a device protection function. There have been reports that Android 5.1 will take the lead in Google's launch of several low-cost Android devices in Indonesia, but today Google has announced the official launch of Android 5.1 for all of the world's compatible devices. At the same time, Google released the Nexus device of the Android 5.1 factory image and in AOSP exposed the corresponding 5.1 source code.

4. Apple launches medical basic research application ResearchKit

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Apple today held a special product launch in the United States with the theme "Spring Forward". Jeff Williams, Apple's health application director, introduced the software infrastructure designed for medical research Tiyatien kit applications.

It is understood that more than 900 HealthKit-based apps are now helping people track and manage health issues.

5.Facebook will be closed on April 19 FriendFeed

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Facebook previously made a FriendFeed acquisition in 2009. FriendFeed allows users to share links, pictures, and postings in "customized messages." A related blog message says Facebook will officially close FriendFeed service on April 19.

The reason for the shutdown is that there is no user using FriendFeed. Here's what Facebook had sent to Re/code earlier: "We've been maintaining this service for the last 5 years, but users have been consistently declining, and today's users are a piece of cake." For these reasons, we decided that it was time to start abandoning the service. Of course, we are also very grateful to friendfeed users for their support for the service over the years. ”

6. UK proposes a 25% high "Google tax" on technology companies

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Before the British election began this May, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposed a 25% "Google (Weibo) tax" on the profits of technology companies operating in the UK.

The British Sunday Times reported that the move was aimed at cracking down on offshore tax avoidance by technology companies, a "transfer of profits" tax that could be incorporated into the UK Government's budget and will come into effect next month. The 25% tax rate is much higher than the standard 20% corporate income tax, but it may only apply to companies earning more than 376 million dollars a yearly income. In addition, the British government may ask these companies to disclose each country's income and profit data.

7. American Online Homework FAQ Platform Studypool won 1.2 million seed wheel financing

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The introduction of Uber and Airbnb into the online education field of entrepreneurship projects studypool a "student paid question teacher bidding solution" way, for high school students and college student groups to set up an online learning questions platform. The project has just recently been funded by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, a number of agencies with the investment of 1.2 million of dollars in seed rounds.

Studypool's answer process is this: Log on to the site and register, students choose "Simple Problem", the basic can be within 8 minutes to get the platform on the teacher's quick answer. If the problem is more difficult, students can pay questions about the problem, the teacher according to their professional ability and can answer the time to the students "bid." Students can be selected according to the professional background of different teachers, system rating, student evaluation for screening, the chosen teacher to give the answer, students pay according to the degree of satisfaction.

8. Layout networking, arm and next city, the acquisition of security vendors

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ARM announced the acquisition of Internet security software vendors Offspark, hoping to improve ARM? The security of the Mbedtm platform helps developers design and develop more secure IoT products.

The acquired Offspark headquarters in the Netherlands is committed to providing secure technology for IoT communications, and its POLARSSL technology has been widely used in devices including sensor modules, communication modules and smartphones. After the acquisition, Polarssl will play the arm mbed communication security and software encryption strategy core technology, and renamed Arm mbed TLS, continue to maintain open source, to provide developers for commercial development, can be used alone or as part of the mbed OS, not only can be used in embedded devices And will continue to extend its product capabilities to non-embedded domain devices.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)