"Silicon Valley connection" Instagram valued at $35 billion trillion Facebook earned it!

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1. Apple Pay online Two-month share of US mobile transactions 1%

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Apple Pay's early performance in the U.S., which accounts for 1% of all mobile payments in the US this November, is reported by the financial investment firm ITG.

Apple still lags behind mobile-payment leaders, such as Square and PayPal, where the share number is 18% and 78%, but don't forget that Apple Pay on October 20 this year. An analyst at ITG said Apple's pay performance was satisfactory.

2. Instagram valued at $35 billion trillion Facebook dug up real gold

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The slowing growth of Facebook users has long been a well-known problem in the market, but Facebook's share price has been firm. In fact, analysts say, Facebook's potential has not yet been fully tapped.

Among them, Citigroup in its research report recently pointed out that the current Instagram valuation of $35 billion. This has undoubtedly given Facebook a big boost, with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who bought Instagram at a final price of $715 million in 2012, and the social media is currently valued at almost 49 times times.

3. Volvo plans to develop smart riding helmets to prevent car crashes

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According to foreign media reports, the Swedish Volvo company plans to develop a bicycle users to provide a riding helmet, by sharing the travel route data, can avoid collision with the car.

If you are in a sparsely populated neighbourhood, especially on a street with a visual blind spot, if a Volvo car driver is able to get a ride through the cloud, you will be able to take early steps to avoid collisions.

4. Amazon to promote homemade TV series The New York Times put full-page ads

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Amazon and Netflix published a full-page ad in the New York Times in Saturday to promote homemade TV dramas that were heavily invested.

Amazon's advertising is to promote the comedy "The Jungle of Mozart," the first season of the TV series will be broadcast from December 23. Earlier this year, the show's trailer had been aired. Netflix's ads are for the promotion of Marco Polo. Netflix has invested heavily in the 10-episode TV series, which began broadcasting earlier this month.

5. The latest computer neural network to identify images up to primate levels

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For decades, neuroscientists have devoted themselves to designing computer networks to simulate human visual abilities, such as cognitive goals, where the brain is accurate and rapid, with a glimpse of what is seen. No computer model has yet been compared to the primate brain in identifying visual targets. A new study by neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that the latest generation of so-called "deep neural networks" can be compared to the brains of primates, according to a recent report by the physicist network.

6. Facebook: The world's largest open-source company doesn't sell software.

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"The world's largest open source company," the name, after the number of easy owners, eventually belong to Facebook. Instead of selling software for profit, the atypical Open-source company embarked on a path to open source-open source code and open source community. Red Hat eventually ran into a competitor. The ownership of the world's largest Open-source company is set to spark competition as Hortonworks is publicly traded at $1 billion trillion in market capitalisation.

7. Microsoft is developing an Xbox one-head virtual reality device

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Recent industry rumors: Microsoft has provided some game developers with the development of Xbox one-head virtual reality devices.

According to Vrfocus, the Developer Toolkit has been assigned to a group of Xbox developers--some of which have been confirmed to Vrfocus by some developer studios, and are indeed developing applications for the device.

It is also reported that Microsoft will officially announce the new product at the E3 exhibition in June 2015.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)