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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. How likely is Apple to push icar cars? Insiders: 80%

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Over the past few weeks, there have been rumours that Apple may be introducing a new technology or new product in the automotive sector. According to a recent report, Apple is actually working on a real car product, but the project is still in its early stages of development.

According to sources from Mac Observer, Apple has dug out several engineers from Tesla, and the engineers have developed experience with electric cars. At the same time, insiders said that the legendary "ICar" car project is almost certain, the probability of the advent of up to 80%. Earlier reports said Apple was interested in direct competition with Tesla through a mysterious project.

2. Art Dragon major shareholder Expedia agreed to buy rival Orbitz 1.3 billion dollars

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Online travel website Expedia, the first Chinese internet company to be acquired by the company, said in Thursday it had agreed to buy rival Orbitz CSM at $1.34 billion trillion, or $12 per share. All acquisitions will be done in cash.

Expedia has invested heavily in the purchase of consumer tourism and business-to-business travel websites, Oribtz to further optimize resources to better match the Priceline of larger rivals. Expedia's total reservation last year was 50.4 billion dollars, compared to $12.4 billion Orbitz. Priceline has not yet released its full-year results last year, but the company's cumulative reservation for the first 9 months was $39.6 billion, above Expedia's 39.1 billion dollar level.

3. Tesla will launch the home battery 6 months after the start of production

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According to foreign media reports, electric car maker Tesla confirmed in a Wednesday earnings call that the company is moving into the home battery sector.

JB Strauber, chief technology officer at Tesla Straubel, told investors that Tesla planned to launch a consumer battery that would provide electricity to households or businesses at a "fairly fast" rate. He added that the product could be unveiled in the next month or two, and would begin production in about six months.

4. Pinterest will join the purchase button to start the electricity business

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In Thursday, U.S. media reported that the U.S. Photo service network Pinterest plans to join the "buy" button this year to start the electric business.

According to the source, Pinterest is likely to launch the function as soon as 3-6 months, and it is likely that the test will be limited in size at first. However, Pinterest may also wait longer to launch this feature.

5. Facebook allows users to specify an account heir

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Starting this week, Facebook will allow users to designate so-called "legacy contacts" to manage their accounts after the user dies. Users can also choose to completely delete their accounts after their death.

Facebook and other Internet services have been faced with the problem of how to deal with dead user accounts, and to balance the need to protect user privacy and satisfy the needs of deceased relatives and friends. Previously, Facebook automatically froze their accounts for users who had been confirmed dead. This makes those who want to maintain the account of the relatives and friends feel dissatisfied.

6. Obama or executive order requires enterprises to share network security information

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Beijing time February 13 morning news, according to Reuters, people familiar with the matter, U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce an executive order, the government and companies to share more information on the threat of cyber security, to deal with the Sony is similar to the black incident hacker attacks. People close to the situation said the order was expected to be announced tonight or tomorrow and that Mr. Obama would give a speech at Stanford University.

7. Intel Imagination shares Apple continues to act as shareholder

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According to foreign media reports, the Intel Foundation announces that it will sell its 4.9% stake in the imagination Technologies (it). In other words, Intel Foundation and Intel Capital will be completely disconnected from it. Apple, which has renewed its contract with the company last year, will continue to be one of its shareholders. Although Apple and it did not disclose specific contract content, it disclosed that the contract would last several years and would cover a number of areas.

8. Intel this year pushed Skylake architecture core M Upgrade Equipment Endurance

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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet industry conference in Tuesday that Intel will launch a new generation of core m chips for the Skylake architecture later this year. will help notebook and tablet pen electric mixing equipment, etc. greatly improve battery endurance, while enhancing graphics and operational performance.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)