"Silicon Valley Connection" Uber $1.2 billion trillion: valued at $40 billion

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1. Taxi service Uber 1.2 billion USD: Valued at $40 billion

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American taxi service Uber announced in Thursday that it had raised $1.2 billion trillion in risky capital again, meaning its total funding amounted to $2.7 billion trillion. In this financing round, Uber's valuation is about $40 billion trillion.

Uber attracted so much investor interest because the company is growing fast and its annual revenue is heading towards $2 billion trillion. From the "seed turn" to today's short years, the rise in Uber valuations is staggering. Semil Shah, the technology investor Mill Shah, wrote on Twitter: "The $10,000 trillion in Uber funding of the 1.2 million-dollar ' seed round ' (then Uber valued at $5 million) is worth $80 million today, excluding the diluted impact. ”

2. Diarrhea announced agreement on repurchase of Microsoft's Nook Business Holdings

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Diarrhea (Barnes & Noble) announced in Thursday that it had reached an agreement to redeem Microsoft's Nook E-book business, Reuters reported. The transaction involved a capital amount of $123 million. After the equity repurchase is completed, diarrhea will completely divest the Nook department, which has been in a loss position, from its core business.

Diarrhea's second-quarter profit fell sharply below market expectations as the Nook business continued to slump. By the news, the company's shares tumbled 13% in early trading in Thursday. On the deadline, the unit rebounded slightly to $19.93 trillion, or 2.31, or 10.39%.

3. Line for global users open payment service line Pay

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The Japanese mobile Messaging application line was upgraded today for the first time to push its mobile payment service line pay to the world.

Line currently has 170 million active users worldwide, Linepay allows these users to pay a variety of goods and content. From today, users can sign up for a credit card and then buy stickers or other content in the line store.

4. To commercial: IBM "Watson Analytics" platform has been open to test

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IBM's Watson Analytics service is now being tested as a natural language based system that provides predictive and visual analysis tools for businesses. As early as this summer, IBM announced a 1 billion dollar investment to promote the commercialization of "Watson", and Watson Analytics is part of the effort. The company promises that it can accomplish automation tasks such as data preparation, predictive analysis, and "Visualization" (visual storytelling).

5. Streaming media Video continues to rise the number of traditional TV watching is now down

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According to foreign media reports, the rise of Netflix and other streaming media has not yet to let the traditional television industry perish, but there is no doubt that the former has had a small impact on the latter. According to Nielsen's latest statistics, in November, video watching online was up 60% last year, while traditional TV was down 4%. In other words, Americans watched the streaming video platform for nearly 11 hours last month (only 7 hours in October) and spent more than 141 hours in traditional TV channels.

6. "Angry Birds" developers Rovio layoffs 110 people accounted for 14% of the total number of employees

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"Angry Bird" developer Rovio Entertainment will lay off 110 people, about 14% of their total workforce, to complete a layoff plan announced in October this year, according to the Wall Street Journal's online edition.

Rovio also said in Thursday that it would close the gaming studio in Tampere, Finland, and integrate operations at its headquarters in Espoo, Tampere.

7. Soft silver 250 million dollar investment GrabTaxi, Southeast Asia market entrepreneurship and investment continued to heat up

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Not satisfied with 627 million U.S. dollars investment Flipkart (India), 210 million U.S. dollar investment Olas (India Taxi software) The status quo, SoftBank this time to invest 250 million U.S. dollars in south-East Asia taxi software GrabTaxi, after the financing GrabTaxi valuation may be more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, SoftBank also became GrabTaxi's biggest investor.

GrabTaxi was founded in 2012 in Malaysia, currently has 500 employees, 60,000 drivers, mobile app has 2.5 million downloads, MAU up to 500,000, the cumulative number of users have reached 600 million, business coverage of 6 countries in Southeast Asia, 17 cities: Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. At present, the core Services taxi service, also provides a similar Uber private call car, in Vietnam also provides local characteristics of the motorcycle call car. In South-East Asia, GrabTaxi said, two people use GrabTaxi for every three people in a taxi, and the business is 8 times times higher than last year.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)