"Silicon Valley Link" Facebook messenger+uber= communication tools + electric Business Platform

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. Amazon said the price increase did not affect the prime growth of the proposed 100 million U.S. dollars video

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Compared with the general shopping site, Amazon's biggest feature is the annual fee of 99 dollars of the Prime membership system. After the annual fee from 79 U.S. dollars rose to 99 U.S. dollars, the industry doubts that will not lead to a big reduction in user interest. However, Amazon executives disclosed in Thursday that the growth of their mail membership is still very rapid.

Tomszkutak, Amazon's chief financial officer, said at the earnings analyst meeting that the March price hike, but prime-mail membership, still showed "considerable growth". He said the number of new two-month-mail members was more than the same period last year.

2. Google YouTube acquisition Twitch build new media empire

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According to reliable news, Google has signed a deal to buy the game live streaming media company Twitch at about 1 billion dollars.

The exact price of the deal is not yet known and when it will be announced. This transaction reflects the value of live streaming media and the rise of competitive games. Competitive games live video attracts countless eyeballs on the internet and offers advertisers an opportunity worth billions of of dollars.

3. Facebook messenger+uber= Communication tools + Electronic Business Platform

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What if the popular taxi service Uber applied to mobile chat applications in Facebook, according to foreign media reports? Messenger will no longer be just a communication tool, it will become an e-commerce platform.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, has initiated preliminary talks with Uber chief executive Travis Collanick Travis Kalanick to put the latter's taxi service into its Messenger application.

4. Facebook says never to give up search engine business

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Foreign media reported that Facebook recently announced that it needs to deal with more than 1 billion searches a day, but it still has plenty of room to improve to provide a comprehensive search tool.

Earlier last year, Facebook published an ambitious search engine program called Graph search. The project aims to index users on Facebook, their posts and links, and then provide personalized search tools based on the social networks of the people around them. It supports searches related to various locations, individuals, hobbies, and other topics.

5. Amazon's second-quarter net loss of 126 million U.S. dollars has widened year-on-year

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The July 25 news from Beijing, Amazon released its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 as at June 30, 2014. Earnings showed Amazon's net sales for the second quarter were $19.34 billion trillion, a 15.7 billion-dollar year-on-year increase of 23%, a net loss of $126 million trillion, and a net profit of $7 million last year, with a year-on-year increase in losses.

FactSet, a financial firm, forecasts Amazon's second-quarter net sales of $19.3 billion trillion, The loss for each share was $0.16 trillion, while Amazon forecast the company's second-quarter operating loss of $15 million, while Amazon earlier predicted that the company's operating losses were between 55 million and 455 million dollars in the quarter. Amazon shares plunged and fell by more than 7% per cent after the stock market, as the results were less than analysts expected.

6. HP 50 million dollar strategic investment large data platform Hortonworks

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Beijing Time July 25 news, according to Science and technology blog Recode reported that HP is about to announce the Big Data platform Hortonworks strategic investment of 50 million U.S. dollars. Hortonworks is a Hadoop start-up that was spun out of Yahoo in 2011.

As part of the deal, HP executive vice president and chief Technology Officer Martin Frink (Martin Fink) will join the Hortonworks board. Hortonworks has previously received investments from private-equity firm Blackstone and Passport Capital.

7.Chrome browser gradually eats up IE market share

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Google's Chrome browser overtook IE as the most popular web browser in the U.S. market for the first time, according to the latest figures released by market research agencies. According to data released by Adobe Digital Index, chrome browsers now share 32% of the U.S. desktop and mobile browser market, compared to 31% for IE browsers. Internet Explorer is still dominant in the desktop browser market, and Apple's Safari browser has some clout in the mobile market.

8. Global 4K TV market continues to grow but prices are still too expensive

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4K is clearly the best way for manufacturers to attract users, and in marketing, TV makers are already battle. According to IHS Market Research Institute data, March this year, 4K television sales rebounded, and in 4 May, a large increase in sales are expected to reach 14.5 million units, higher than last year's 2 million units.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)