"Silicon Valley Connection" Bill Gates wealth grew 6 billion dollars in six months and Microsoft has nothing to do

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1. Google to further tighten the control of Android manufacturers

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With its Android operating system, Google dominates the Mobile world. For now, it dominates the global smartphone market, and only Apple can pose a threat to its rivals. Google also dominates the field of online search and online advertising, and its leading edge is reaching the mobile end.

This year, the company signed a deal with Google to require that Google search "team pieces" and Google Play App Store icon must be present in the device's "Default home screen." It said that the device's main screen labeled "Google" icon must contain 13 Google Apps open icon, including Chrome, Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube, Gmail, Google +, Google Play music, Google Play movies, Google Play books, Google Play newspapers, Google game games, plus Google + photos and Google + hangouts. The new protocol also identifies the exact placement of these applications in the Google icon. In addition, several other Google apps, including Google Street View, Google Voice search and Google Calendar, must be placed within the second screen.

2. Jawbone 15.8 million dollars is still 100 million dollars away from the financing target.

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Data provider VC Experts recently found a September 15 document showing that jawbone a new issue of about 15.8 million U.S. dollar shares series 6-a preferred shares, valued at $3.3 billion.

This is the latest step in the company's quest to complete a huge round of financing that started in February. According to Re/code and other media reported before, Jawbone want to 3.3 billion U.S. dollar valuation financing 250 million U.S. dollars, Rizvi Traverse.

A Jawbone spokeswoman declined to comment. But judging from the new document, the company still has a long way to go before it can meet its financing targets. So far, it has issued 147 million of dollars in shares, up from the target of more than 100 million dollars in financing.

3. Microsoft announces new Windows official name next week

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Microsoft will hold a meeting in San Francisco next week, with participants participating in the invitation. Microsoft is expected to release the new version of Windows official name at the meeting. The Windows operating system, code-named Threshold, has a partial leak in its function and interface, but the name is still very different, known outside of Windows 9 and Windows two.

4. Google Programming Education training program to allow more women to enter the High-tech industry

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Earlier this year, Google announced that more than four-fifths of the U.S. labor force is male, and it has pledged to donate as much as $50 million to nonprofit groups, aimed at eliminating gender disparities. Three months later, a number of non-profit organizations in the United States have received donations from Google, a program called "Made with Code" Programming training program, which Washington, D.C., the nonprofit organization American Inc. has received 2500 U.S. dollars to help 100 local girls programming training, Stimulate their interest in code creativity.

5. IPv4 address is about to be depleted global acceleration into the IPV6 era

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As the global IPv4 address is about to be exhausted in "the next few weeks", it is widely believed that the IPV4 address will accelerate the development of IPV6, IPV6 is the only way to solve the problem of IP address shortage.

The worldwide transition from IPV4 to IPV6 has started. It is reported that the 24 hours since GMT June 8, 2011 Zero 1 minutes will be the first trial day of the IPV6 protocol system. Websites such as Google and Facebook, the web search engine, will take the lead in launching the IPV6 protocol system to provide testing and analysis platforms for users and engineers.

6. Yahoo "search engine" will be closed by Yahoo

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Yahoo directory will be shut down with Yahoo education, video-sharing qwiki and other services, the company said today. "Yahoo directory has been launched as a directory to help users search the Internet 20 years ago," the statement said. Although we are still committed to connecting users with the information they are interested in, but our business has evolved, by December 31, 2014, we will close the Yahoo Directory. Advertisers will upgrade to new services, and more details can be communicated directly. ”

7. BlackBerry: Passport smartphone has received 200,000 orders

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Chen, the BlackBerry's CEO, said the company's unique passport smartphone had received 200,000 orders since it was released in Wednesday.

According to Chen revealed that the passport smartphone in the company's official online sales, six hours sold out, in the Amazon site after the sale, 10 hours sold. Before the sale, Passport is the most popular unlocked smartphone on Amazon's website.

8. Bill Gates ' wealth grew 6 billion dollars a year, nothing to do with Microsoft

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Interestingly, his wealth did not come from Microsoft. In 1986, when Microsoft publicly listed, Gates held 45% of Microsoft's shares, about 1 billion shares. Since 1994, he has been gradually selling a lot of stocks.

Today, his fortune comes from the Cascade company. Although we cannot know exactly how much the company is investing in, the company's published documents show that its investments include at least a stake in the Canadian National Railroad, AutoNation Inc., Berkshire Hathaway and Republic Services Inc. In addition, he once held a large stake in Deere & Co, Liberty Global and waste management.

(editor: Mengyishan)