BlackBerry officials said today that the company did not participate in the Samsung talks, denying the possibility of the acquisition

Summary: Yesterday, according to Reuters, a source said that Samsung intends to buy the BlackBerry at a maximum of 7.5 billion dollars in order to obtain the BlackBerry's patent portfolio. The BlackBerry's share price jumped 30% because of the rumor. A number of investment banks have been combining BlackBerry patents

Samsung is intent on acquiring the BlackBerry at a maximum of 7.5 billion dollars in hopes of acquiring a patent portfolio for the BlackBerry, according to a source released yesterday, Reuters reported. The BlackBerry's share price jumped 30% because of the rumor.

Several investment banks have evaluated the BlackBerry's patent portfolio, ranging from 2 billion to 5 billion dollars. BlackBerry officials today denied the rumors, saying the company was not involved in the Samsung talks. BlackBerry also said that the company will not respond to rumors are not responding to the policy, and thereafter would not respond to this message. Soon Samsung also responded by denying the possibility of a takeover.

There have been rumors that Microsoft and Chinese manufacturers Lenovo wanted to buy blackberries. BlackBerry CEO Chen once noted that BlackBerry could not be sold to Chinese manufacturers because of its partnership with the U.S. government. After denying Samsung's takeover rumours, the BlackBerry fell, down 16.47% from the closing price.

Quick to get 500 million dollars a new round of financing, Alibaba and soft silver investment

According to the WSJ report, the new round of financing for a quick taxi raises more than $500 million trillion, and Japan's SoftBank will be involved in financing, with investors including Alibaba and the Global Tiger Fund continuing to add to the financing round. People familiar with the situation are expected to disclose the investment in the coming days.

As a quick taxi shareholder, a hi-car CEO Zhang said this round of financing for the quick taxi is very important, after all, the current market competition is very fierce. Drop by taxi at the end of the year just finished a round of 700 million dollars in financing. Uber also received nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars in the injection of Baidu, ready to strengthen the sense of presence in the Chinese market.

Business Facebook at Work launch test run

The Business Edition Facebook at work, which was reported by the Financial Times in November 2014, has been launched at the Apple App Store, waiting to be chosen for trial business partners. The service is now starting to run.

The business Facebook at work interface resembles a standard Facebook, supports news push, messaging tools, and grouping, and enables users to log in using a standard version of their account. However, office data and personal data are completely isolated, and Facebook does not collect any office data.

In addition, unlike LinkedIn, where Facebook at work is currently only used for communication between colleagues, the more direct competitors are Jive Software, Salesforce chatter, and Microsoft Yammer. Business Facebook at Work no advertising service, so the potential source of revenue is corporate user fees.

BoE opens 500 County service centers

According to Tencent Science and Technology report, Beijing East announced will be in Jiangsu province Suqian, Hunan Province, Changsha County, Sichuan Province, Yilong County, Shandong province Pingdu and other counties and cities officially opened.

Beijing east said that in 2015, the Beijing-east county-level service center will be rolled out in counties nationwide, the number of opening this year will be more than 500. Service center will be targeted at the rural market, providing marketing, logistics and distribution, customer experience and product display services, customers can be orders, distribution, display.

In addition, Jingdong will also use this to dig more rural characteristics of products, reverse the agricultural products sent to the city's table. Reduce the intermediate link. After the Beijing-east relying on proprietary logistics and after-sale, in the one or two-line city more powerful.

Millet note is about to be released, equipped with Gaotong Dragon 810

This afternoon, Millet will release a new generation of flagship handsets at the National Convention Center. 36 Krypton learned that its name is not millet 5 but millet note. It is rumored that the new machine will carry 5.5-inch-5.7-inch screen, more lightweight, higher screen ratio, the use of front and rear glass cover, hifi sound effects.

And Qualcomm today sent an invitation to the media, January 23 in Beijing to host the Qualcomm 810 experience, one of the activities on the agenda is to carry 骁丽 Dragon 810, the new flagship Millet experience. It also confirms from the side that the millet note will indeed carry Qualcomm's first 64-bit flagship Soc.

Millet has for the new flagship two weeks of momentum, millet note may be the first millet price more than 2000 yuan of mobile phones. 36 Krypton will be on site this afternoon to report the Millet Note press conference, and will be the first time to shoot video.

Google Venture partner Kevin Rose financing 5 million dollars to join the application incubator

Kevin Rose, a Google Venture partner who set up an application incubator North Technogies last August, now exits Google Venture and invests in North operations as a full-time identity, with a successful 5 million dollar loan.

Many investors have expressed a desire to support the young entrepreneurial team, and Rose is true. North has now hatched two applications, a photo-sharing tiiny, a news-reading application for smart watches Watchville. But Rose says North will not hatch more than two or three projects at once.

Apple, Google and other big four to reach a new settlement

In 2011, the plaintiffs limited staff mobility to four Silicon Valley technology companies including Google, Apple, Intel Crop and Adobe Bae, thus leading to a pay limit that brought the four to court. According to Reuters, four companies have prepared a new settlement agreement.

Google spokeswoman is not available to contact, and three other companies declined to comment. According to the report, the case was largely based on emails from jobs, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his Silicon Valley rivals, who made plans to avoid poaching the other's elite engineers.

During the brief court case in Tuesday, four companies told the plaintiff that a specific settlement would be drafted and that Koh would decide to accept or reject it.

Google releases modular mobile phone Project ARA second Edition Development Kit

Google recently launched its second edition of the MDK Module Development Kit before convening the Project ARA Modular Mobile Developer conference. The MDK0.2, based on the Spiral 2 prototype that will be revealed at the developer meeting, uses Toshiba's new custom chip, but does not mention the Rui core, Marvell and Nvidia processors. Google says a new protocol called Greybus will be used to exchange data between the module and the fuselage.

The Phonebloks community mentions that Project ARA management applications will soon be available to end users. Through this application, users can control the functions of different modules and monitor the data and information of the modules.

In addition, Google and Phonebloks also revealed a number of new information about the ARA module store, where the developers and consumers of the module will buy and sell the Project Ara module. Google will be responsible for the official store operations, payment process (most likely through Google Wallet), sales and module certification, and the module inventory and logistics by the third party.

Google unmanned vehicles to be launched in 2020

Chris Umrson, head of the Google Unmanned vehicle project in Wednesday, revealed that Google is in contact with the world's top carmakers, including GM, Ford, Toyota, Daimler and Volkswagen, in the hope of trying to get unmanned vehicles to commercial use in 2020.

Tesla's president, Musk, said in Tuesday that Tesla's self-driving car would be postponed until 2022 or 2023 because of a lack of clear federal law, and Umrson said the unmanned vehicle project "saw no specific regulatory hurdles".

Google has released a fully functional prototype of an unmanned vehicle and is working with mainland China, Robert Bosch, ZF, LG and other companies to improve the car's driving systems and accessories.