"Silicon Valley link" Yahoo buys after read the news application blink SAP to cloud computing transformation

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1. Yahoo after the acquisition of the burning message application blink

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Beijing time May 14 Morning News, the U.S. Science and Technology blog TechCrunch has confirmed that Yahoo (34.4,-0.05,-0.15%) acquired the "Burn After reading" Message application blink. Blink's rivals include Snapchat and new frankly, Confider and Wickr. The terms of the deal were not announced.

The 7 members of the Blink team will join Yahoo after the acquisition. Blink is a product developed by Meh Labs, the founder of which includes Google (533.09, 3.17, 0.6%) Former employees Kevin Stephens (Kevin Stephens) and Michel Nogen (Michelle Norgan). Meh Labs initially focused on location service Kismet. However, because the app failed to attract enough attention, the Meh Labs team then turned to "burn after read" messaging applications.

2. Solarade: "Mobile charger" under the sun

Http://tech.ifeng.com/startup/detail_2014_05/14/36303221_0.shtml

Imagine the sunshine, the lawn, the music, the movie, how cozy it is, and it's not just a dream in this mobile age. Enjoying the outdoors has also become one of the people's pursuit of lifestyle. There is a hidden danger behind such a beautiful life, battery capacity. I believe many people have experienced the embarrassment of "no electricity". Now, South Korean sister Sen to the people who love the outdoors, a solar charger named Solarade, not only can use the solar energy to charge electronic equipment, shape design is quite convenient and beautiful.

USB interface design allows it to support most electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, handheld consoles, mobile power amplifier devices and so on.

3. Microsoft will push down the price version of Xbox One: $399

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Beijing time May 13, according to a Bloomberg report, Microsoft announced in Tuesday that it will launch a low-cost version of the Xbox One game host. Microsoft's move is aimed at regaining Sony's lead in selling new-generation game consoles.

Microsoft said in a statement that the new Xbox One will be listed on June 9, covering all the markets listed on the current model, priced at $399, and does not contain Kinect, a body-sensing peripheral.

Microsoft's move was to tweak its decision to bind the Xbox One to the Kinect sale earlier. The decision was controversial, making the overall price 100 dollars higher than the Sony PS4. While Microsoft insists that it needs Kinect to convince game developers to develop applications for their body-sensing peripherals, Sony's sharp lead in sales of new hosts has made Microsoft change the strategy. In March this year, PS4 sold more than Xbox One in the United States, the third consecutive month in the game's host sales header.

4. SAP restructuring and restructuring plans to cloud computing thousands of workers

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In the process of restructuring and shifting the focus from the physical software package to the Cloud-based software model, May 14 News, the German software giant SAP plans to lay off a huge number of layoffs that could hit thousands of people. SAP has already had a number of senior executives leaving the company, and it will soon be voting to see if CEO Bill Mcdermott Bill McDermott is the sole CEO.

James Dever, a spokesman for SAP, said the James Dever was not meant to cut headcount, but to restructure the company's resources in accordance with the new strategy, the company's real goal was to become "more concise, more flexible, faster and more cooperative." He said the company plans to reach the end of this year when the total number of employees exceeds the number of employees at the beginning.

5. "Excel Killer" start-up company Anaplan financing 100 million US dollar valuation more than 1 billion

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The recent development of Anaplan has been very smooth, the start-up company through a cloud based application and Microsoft Excel competition. The company has just raised 100 million of dollars in the D-round financing by DFJ substituting, so far the company's total financing has reached 150 million dollars.

Sources familiar with the company said the Anaplan company valued more than $1 billion trillion after the financing round. Human Resources Cloud services company Workday, Salesforce.com are all involved in this round of investment. This means that Anaplan is supported by two respected cloud services companies.

Workday co-CEO Anier Busri (Aneel Bhusri) is also a greylock ventures venture capitalist, and he has invested in Anaplan, an important competitor in the market. But now Busri is no longer a member of the Tidemark board, I wonder if it is because of conflict of interest.

6. All angles: real-time photo sharing application Kliktoo Online

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On May 13, an iOS app called Kliktoo is online today, allowing users to synthesize photos of a moment taken by themselves, friends, and strangers.

The basic function of Kliktoo is to combine photos taken by at least two people with smartphones. "Cheng is designed to bring together friends and strangers to capture a moment from different angles," said Kliktoo, the company's founder, Muh Hon Kliktoo, a Buuuk company based in Singapore. ”

7. Anonymous social Application "secret" by Apple under the shelf

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The secret of Anonymous social app, which was rife and controversial in the circle of friends, was put down by the App Store on May 14, and its development team told the media that it was in official communication with Apple as early as tomorrow to resume its shelves.

As early as May 8, the secret of the search in the App Store has been unable to display, suspected of being under the Apple store shelves. But the current secret in the Android Market can still be downloaded normally.

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)