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1. Bean meal: Call a late-night takeaway
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Xiaofeng especially like a Japanese called "late-night canteen", the play has a restaurant only in the late night, telling the story of the city people to and from the middle of the night. Late at night, the heart and stomach to be comforted, but the face of an empty refrigerator, there is no 24-hour hotel, it will really make people some crazy. At present, there is a very interesting takeaway app, only open 23 o'clock-5 a day, it is called "Bean snack."
There's already a lot of flagship apps on the market, if you are hungry, Amoy point, and so on, these applications mainly and offline hotel cooperation, to provide consumers with location information based on the surrounding food service, so, want to use these applications to order supper, but also to see whether the users around the hotel to provide snack services. While the snack is used in the cafeteria and independent distribution mode. Currently only support Beijing area, distribution range of 5 ring.
2. Icahn: PayPal should be an independent IPO urging ebay to sell 20% shares
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Beijing Time March 20 news, according to the technology blog CNET reports, billionaire, activist investor Icahn (Carl Icahn) in Wednesday to the ebay shareholder issued a letter to the letters, again to the ebay pressure, urging ebay by allowing PayPal to implement a separate IPO, Sell a 20% per cent stake in the department.
In this open letter, in addition to a number of proposals, Icahn also once again expressed his disappointment with the ebay leadership. "Over the past few weeks, we have made some slightly troubling suggestions to ebay on corporate governance," Mr. Icahn said. Unfortunately, in our view, these issues have never caught ebay's attention. Now that we have a basic overview, we think it will benefit companies, employees and shareholders to have PayPal implement the IPO and sell 20% of the PayPal Stakes. We hope to attract the attention of ebay's management and respond to it in an efficient and transparent manner. ”
3. Facebook's mobile ad revenue is soaring: narrowing the gap with Google
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Beijing time, March 20 Morning News, the U.S. market research company emarketer's latest data show that as smartphones and tablets become more and more popular, advertisers are targeting such mobile devices in a large number of ads, and Facebook (68.24,-0.95,-1.37%) It appears to be gradually seizing the market share of Google (1199.25,-12.01,-0.99%).
Global mobile advertising spending rose from $8.76 billion trillion in 2012 to $17.96 billion trillion in 2013, up 105%, according to emarketer data. 2012 is expected to reach $31.45 billion trillion, a 75.1% increase from 2013, accounting for nearly 1/4 of global digital advertising spending.
Facebook's market share growth is particularly pronounced, with the company's mobile advertising market share growing from 5.4% in 2012 to 17.5% in 2013, with a forecast of 21.7% in 2014 and Google's dominant share shrinking to 46.8%.
4. Hewlett-Packard CEO said in June announced to enter the 3D print market plan
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According to Reuters, Hewlett-Packard recently said it would announce plans for a commercial 3D print market in June this year, claiming it has addressed many of the technical issues that have constrained the widespread popularity of the technology.
In Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Whitman Meg Whitman told shareholders that the company would make "significant technical announcements" in June about how it would enter a market that would make investors and consumers both imaginative.
At present, the sci-fi-like technology is referred to as excessive hype, is far from mature enough to promote the extent of the consumer.
Industry watchers have been looking forward to HP, the big printer company, into the market. According to Whitman, HP's in-house researchers have solved the substrate quality problems involved in the 3D printing process. This problem will affect the durability of the finished product.
5. The Snowden disclosure document shows that the United States has been hacked into all telephones in a country
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It is said that the material was from a former U.S. NSA employee, Snowden, and provided information on "people who have a direct understanding of the project". The monitoring project, known as "Mystic", was originally conceived in 2009, with a monitoring tool called "retrospective Search", which completed the deployment of the first target country in 2011.
At the request of U.S. officials, the Washington Post did not disclose any details that might make it possible to guess which country was the target, and what other countries might become targets in the future. According to Reuters 19th, it is not clear whether the system is used in the U.S. domestic telephone network. White House spokesman Jay Carney took a evasive stance on the matter at a regular press conference on 18th. He said the White House did not comment on the report, but the White House knew that "the work of the intelligence services was overseen by the government and the law".
6. Facebook Security director Ryan McGeehan joins Coinbase
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Facebook's security chief, Ryan McGeehan, recently announced on Facebook that he will leave Facebook and join Bitcoin start-up Coinbase for security.
Ryan McGeehan, who is Facebook's security Incident Response Director (Director's Incident Response), is not clear about the specific reasons for his departure, and McGeehan will also be on Facebook Delivered a speech at the F8 conference held in April.
7. Windows XP will face a new "millennium bug" at the retirement bank ATM in April
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Beijing Time March 20 News, the Millennium Communication, many people for the "Millennium bug" (Millennium Bug) preparedness concerns, 14 years later, Microsoft announced the elimination of the already ubiquitous XP system, once again caused panic-according to the U.S. ATM manufacturer in Georgia report, the global 95% ATM machines are using Microsoft's 13-year-old Windows XP, the Wall Street Journal asks, is the world ready for XP iterations?
There is no feast-April 8, 2001 Microsoft released Windows XP, hit, and April 8, 2014, the "old" operating system will also withdraw from the history stage, Microsoft announced on the 13 birthday of XP on the day of the end of its technical support. This is another pain for the banker. Although the "embedded" version of the XP system is supported by 2016, most ATM machines do not.
(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)