"Silicon Valley Link" Facebook created 227 billion of dollars of interest in the world last year

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1. The second largest bank in India launched a Twitter transfer service

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The Indian Industrial Credit Investment Bank (ICICI Bank) has launched a new service called "Icicibankpay", with the bright spot that customers can transfer money via Twitter.

Customers just need to focus on the bank's Twitter account and register the phone with the bank, and then send a tweet to @icicibank that contains the payee's username and amount of money transferred. In addition, the payee did not require that the customer must be ICICI Bank.

2. Well-known online FAQ website stack Exchange financing 40 million USD

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According to foreign media reports, the question and answer data network stack Exchange (well-known online question and answer website StackOverflow, Server fault, such as data exchange platform) Tuesday announced the completion of a new round of 40 million U.S. dollars in financing. This round of financing by the VC fund Andreessen Horowitz.

Issues on the StackOverflow Web site cover a wide range of topics, from programming code to cooking recipes. But unlike general question-and-answer websites (such as Quora and Ask.com), StackOverflow only allow questions that lead to objective answers, and the answer must be objective--that is, "how can I make more friends?" issues that can lead to lengthy arguments can be blocked and masked by administrators.

3. Amazon builds wind power plants to provide energy for data centers

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According to foreign media reports, Amazon has joined the ranks of renewable energy technology companies. The company is currently working to use renewable energy to provide power to cloud computing Services (AWS). Amazon said in Wednesday that it had signed a 13-year partnership with the Pattern Energy group and that two companies would build and operate 150 MW of wind farms together.

The new wind power plant was built in Benton, Indiana Shawnee, the official name of the Amazon Network Service wind farm (Amazon Web Services Winds Farm). Amazon plans to provide about 500,000 megawatts of electricity in January 2016. The average household consumption in the United States for 2012 years is 10,837-kilowatt, so the new wind farm in the Amazon can provide electricity to 46,000 homes each year. The power provided by wind farms will be used to drive AWS Cloud servers. AWS has been used by many companies, such as Spotify and Netflix.

4. Facebook created 227 billion dollar benefits for the world last year

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According to foreign media reports, a study of the global impact of Facebook, the world's largest social networking site in 2014 years for the world to create 227 billion of dollars in economic benefits, and indirectly support about 4.5 million jobs.

The economic impact on the US was the most positive, at $100 billion trillion, creating more than 1 million jobs. Next to the UK, Facebook-related economic benefits amounted to $11 billion trillion, with 154,000 new jobs.

5. Wireless Charging Technology: Microsoft intends to use focused light to recharge

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Microsoft researchers describe AutoCharge as a technology that automatically locates smartphones on the table and recharges them. Their prototype charger can be installed on the ceiling with two working modules: a monitoring module that uses Microsoft's Kinect camera to scan objects like smartphones, and a charging mode that uses UltraFire CREE xm-l T6 to focus LED light.

6. Large data analysis company Rubikloud received $7 million a round of financing

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According to official sources, Rubikloud, a company that provides large data analysis Services for retailers, has recently completed a 7 million dollar a round of financing, which is used to expand core programming teams and data science teams while expanding customers in North America and China.

The company provides customers with data collection, data analysis and visualization services based on machine learning algorithms. It takes only half an hour to get the merchant backstage access to the Rubikloud system and start collecting the relevant data. The shortest service cycle can reach 30 days, which means it provides a near real-time, deeply processed information. In terms of analysis and presentation, there is no need for a new platform to view reports, but to visually present different dimensions of information, such as the conversion rates of different browsers in different regions, and so on, to help businesses better make decisions in the areas of marketing, pricing, product selection and user experience optimization.

7. "Tame" Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum computer development breakthrough

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Beijing Time January 21 News, physicists at the University of Sussex in the UK have succeeded in "taming" one of the most counter-intuitive phenomena in modern science, a key step in the development of a new generation of computers that will revolutionize the way we solve many modern scientific problems, according to a physicist's website. Physicists often use an example of a thought experiment to show people the mysterious and peculiar nature of quantum mechanics, which is "Schrödinger's cat." In theory, Schrodinger's cat can be both dead and alive at the same time.

8. Twitter buys India mobile marketing company ZipDial

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Twitter announced in Tuesday that it would buy Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial. Twitter did not disclose the price of the deal, but it is expected to be between 30 million dollars and 40 million dollars. ZipDial is headquartered in Bangalore, India (Bangalore), and its services are very popular in India. In India, many of the cost-sensitive mobile phone users like to make a phone call while the other party has not received a sudden hang up, to ring to remind each other of their attention. And ZipDial is using the Indian user's This "cheap" psychology, developed the corresponding service.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)