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1. VMwar15.4 billion dollar acquisition of mobile security company AirWatch

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Beijing time January 23 Morning News, Global virtualization solution provider VMware said in Wednesday that the company will buy mobile security company AirWatch at a price of $1.54 billion to take advantage of employers ' demand for staff to use smartphones and tablets for security to expand their business and raise revenue.

VMware said the company would pay about $1.175 billion trillion in cash and would also pay about $365 million in installments. VMware also said it would borrow $1 billion from its parent company for the deal.

The acquisition of AirWatch is the second total of more than $1 billion trillion in acquisitions by VMware over the past 1.5 years after the company acquired Nicira, a network virtualization software provider, in 2012. The acquisition of AirWatch is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter and will contribute about 75 million dollars to VMware's revenue for 2014 years. VMware expects the deal to be profitable by the end of 2015.

2. Motorola System fourth quarter net profit 343 million USD rose 2%

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Motorola FX today released its fiscal year 2013 quarterly earnings, with a revenue of $2.5 billion and a net profit of $343 million.

In the quarter, Motorola Systems had a revenue of $2.5 billion trillion, compared with $2.44 billion a year earlier. Net profit was $343 million, compared with $336 million a year earlier. The diluted earnings per share was $1.31 trillion, compared with $1.18 a year earlier.

3. Facebook small range test mobile ad Network

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In mobile ad networks, Facebook is moving a step further. In Wednesday, Facebook posted a blog saying the company was conducting a small-scale test of mobile ad networks. But unlike in the past, the test is more like a mobile ad network formed by a company working directly with a small number of advertisers and distributors.

"Our goal is to show advertisers more powerful advertising coverage, both online and offline, with the same Facebook ads," Facebook said. Although we have conducted similar tests in the past, this test is more like a mobile ad network that we are working directly with a handful of advertisers and distributors than an external advertising service platform. ”

4. Microsoft proposes to provide the government with foreign clients ' personal data stored on servers outside the United States

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A day ago, Microsoft General counsel Brad Smith proposed to create a convention in the legal framework so that Governments could request access to certain data. Today, he made the idea "a step further", saying the company would provide personal data stored by foreign clients on servers outside the United States. The reason is that agencies such as the NSA are "not in a hurry" to these elements.

5. BMW Independent development of augmented reality glasses auxiliary maintenance workers intelligent Repair car

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Instead of a big box of shiny tools, the mechanic needed a pair of sunglasses. The vision of the parts is highlighted by the glasses, the computer will tell the user how to install, in what order.

A small screen on a technician's glasses allows technicians to see computer-generated images in real-world environments called amplification. Contact lenses from Google glasses to built-in displays are examples of expanding reality, and this technology is moving into people's lives--in part because of the popularity of smartphones. Smart devices await human development for more applications.

6. Apple plans to invest 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in the Netherlands to build a European data center

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According to the Iphoneclub website, there are rumours that Apple is planning to build a new data center in the Netherlands, where the data center will serve European Apple users. The message Data center is located in Eemshaven, where the Eemshaven has a high-speed trans-Atlantic fibre cable directly connected to the United States, so this is an ideal place to build a data center.

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