"Silicon Valley Connection" Microsoft will transplant Xbox games to holographic glasses

In the daily link to the Silicon Valley, the most fresh information! The "Silicon Valley" here refers to the typical and innovative business representatives abroad.

1. Etsy submitted IPO prospectus plan to finance $100 million

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The American handicraft online market Etsy Wednesday submitted an IPO application. Etsy is located in Brooklyn, New York, before the investors including Accel and so on.

Documents show that Etsy plans to raise up to $100 million trillion in IPOs. However, this figure is only used to calculate registration fees and is therefore likely to be adjusted.

Etsy was founded in 2005, as of December 31 last year, with 54 million users, including 1.4 million active sellers and 19.8 million active buyers.

2. Microsoft will transplant Xbox games to holographic glasses

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Beijing time March 5 Morning News, Microsoft's Xbox Business Director Fille Spencer (Phil Spenser) confirmed at this week's San Francisco Game Developers Conference (GDC) that Microsoft will be porting Xbox games to the HoloLens virtual reality headset device.

"Gaming and entertainment are important," he says, when it comes to providing this new experience to consumers. He revealed that Microsoft's own studio is trying to develop an attractive experience and to break through what Microsoft showed this January. Eventually, however, HoloLens will be open to outside developers.

3. IBM's acquisition of start-up companies to upgrade Watson's service capabilities

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IBM announced in Wednesday that the company had acquired AlchemyAPI, a fast-growing replenishment firm. AlchemyAPI sells software that collects and analyzes text information and data in a way that large companies, web publishers, and advertisers use to collect and discover useful text and unstructured data. At the moment, IBM has not disclosed the exact amount of the deal.

IBM is aiming to further enhance the company's artificial intelligence computing services through the acquisition, that is, to enhance the company's Watson technology. Watson's technology is able to sift through large amounts of data and gain experience from the results, thus responding to verbal questions.

4. The neighbourhood social network Nextdoor received 110 million dollars financing

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In the current market situation, there are still social networks can be successful, they seek a way to target small groups of users, to find their own blue ocean. Nextdoor is one of them, and the site is dedicated to helping communities connect with each other. In a recent round of financing by Redpoint Ventures and Insight Venture, Nextdoor successfully melted 110 million dollars. More importantly, the round of financing has nextdoor the value of $1.1 billion trillion and successfully ranked as a 1 billion dollar valuation club.

The San Francisco company had probably raised 100 million of dollars, most of which came from a round of $60 million trillion in October 2013, with investors involved in the round benchmark capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Company, Shasta Ventures, Allen & Company, Pinnacle Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, and Google Ventures. In addition to the latest round of financing, the company has a total of 210 million dollars.

5. Samsung electronic production of the first 128GB UFS memory

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Samsung Electronics today announced the start of the industry's first use of Universal Flash Standard (UFS) 2.0 version of the 128GB Ultra high-speed embedded memory to meet the new generation of flagship smartphone market demand. The highly-publicized UFS 2.0 interface, in line with the most advanced JEDEC standards, is a new generation of flash memory in the industry.

6. Apple talks with HBO to launch streaming media video service

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The international Financial Times reported that HBO, the US's leading television network media company, is negotiating with Apple to serve as the online partner for its much-anticipated streaming video service, HBO Now.

People familiar with the situation said HBO Now expected to be online next month, in sync with the fifth quarter of HBO's popular American play "Power Game". The subscription price for HBO now is estimated at $15 a month.

7. Google Open Real-time news new Api:google Cloud Pub

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Google today opened up the new Google Cloud pub API, which allows developers to better manage real-time messaging between apps and services connected to Google's cloud platform. At present, the API is still in the testing phase, can replace the partial service to the network connection heavy dependence, provides the real-time reliable service message Chat service. Google says it has supported the technology in Snapchat and Hangouts applications.

8. Quantum computing milestones: Scientists have experimentally observed the surface currents of topological insulators

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In the latest issue of Nature physics, German scientists reported that they experimentally observed that currents flow through the surface channels of topological insulator crystals. This channel is less than 1 nm wide and extends along the atomic steps of the crystal lattice. The scientists also showed how to introduce these atomic steps in any arrangement. Topological insulators are a hot topic in material physics. The most notable characteristic of these materials is that they can be used as conductors or insulators, and their internal blocking currents allow the movement of electric charges at the edges or surfaces.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)