"Silicon Valley Link" Facebook will work with Ericsson to create "Innovation labs" for mobile networks

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. SEC documents disclosed Dropbox has been financed 325 million USD

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An official document from Dropbox to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that Dropbox has successfully financed 325 million of billions of dollars in the latest round of financing, but the amount of financing can be raised to $450 million.

However, according to the latest news from people familiar with the matter, Dropbox in the last round of private financing, the total amount of money raised to 350 million U.S. dollars, Dropbox company in this round of financing valuation also reached 10 billion U.S. dollars. It is unclear whether Dropbox will continue to plan to increase the amount of funding to the 450 million dollar limit or end up with 350 million dollars.

2. Apple OS exposure to major security vulnerabilities: Email will be intercepted by hackers

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Apple desktop and laptop OS X operating systems have the same problem after Apple's Friday announcement that hackers could use a serious security flaw in the iOS operating system to intercept users ' e-mails and other encrypted communications. But Apple has yet to respond to this.

Apple did not disclose the time and manner in which it was discovered in Friday, nor did it disclose whether the hacker had exploited the loophole to launch an attack. But the company has released software patches for iphone 4 and follow-on products, ipod Touch 5 and ipad 2 and subsequent products. Experts believe that if hackers access the user's network, such as the common use of the same unsecured wireless network in restaurants, this loophole can be used to view and change the user and Gmail and Facebook and other protected sites between the communication information.

3. BlackBerry BBM will open to WP and Nokia X platforms this summer

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, the BlackBerry said it would provide BlackBerry Instant Messaging (BBM) services to Microsoft's WP system and Nokia X platforms in the coming months, Reuters reported. BBM is an IM platform for collaborative tools such as BBM Groups, BBM voice and BBM channels, and competes with WhatsApp, which has been bought by Facebook for 19 billion of dollars.

From this summer onwards, BBM will be available for free download at the Windows Phone store, and Nokia's X-version BBM will be available after the launch of the Nokia X platform. BBM is a pioneer mobile IM service, but its user base cannot grow like WhatsApp and other services, partly because BlackBerry has long refused to open to users on other platforms.

4. IBM Acquisition NoSQL Cloud service provider Cloudant

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IBM will acquire NoSQL Cloud database service provider Cloudant to add more strength to its cloud services portfolio. Cloudant is a private enterprise in Boston, offering a managed version of the Apache COUCHDB open-source software data store. The company's own version of the database software named "Bigcouch", can be run on multiple servers, for the foreground application to create and maintain a large number of data and fast data storage methods. IBM plans to use Bigcouch services for its large data and analysis products and services. IBM will also integrate these services into the Mobile Application development tool portfolio called "MobileFirst".

5. MasterCard pushes its own mobile payment platform

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According to the technology media Gigaom News, MasterCard (MasterCard) in the MWC Congress formally announced the acquisition of mobile payment platform C-sam, the first to enter the mobile payment market "horn." How to use the mobile phone market to further promote the growth of the financial industry has always been a big problem. And in this MWC 2014 Congress, MasterCard officially gave its own solution: the introduction of MasterPass Electronic payment function, for developers to provide more smartphone terminal payment application options.

It is understood that this new feature is based on MasterCard prior to the introduction of "one-click Purchase" service. This program uses cloud to store card information, which can support users to pay money on different application platforms. MasterCard says the technology will be widely used in the future for Android smartphones that support NFC technology.

6. Zuckerberg: The acquisition of WhatsApp is not expensive to suspend the pace of acquisition

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, said in an interview in Monday at the Global Mobile Congress (MWC) that a $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is not expensive because there are not many services in the world that can do more than 1 billion users. But the pace of acquisitions is usually temporarily stalled after a company has made such a big deal.

7. Fujitsu Displays auto voice Control assistant at MWC Conference

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If you have seen "Knight Rider" (Knight Rider), you should be very envious of the hero has a car to talk to. With the development of speech recognition technology, this kind of early in the science fiction movie appears in the matter now also can gradually realize. Fujitsu (Fujitsu) today demonstrated its voice aid prototype system, giving it instructions to complete a variety of automotive and network-related transactions.

8. Facebook will work with Ericsson to create a mobile network "Innovation Labs"

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Facebook and Ericsson announced at today's MWC World Mobile conference that two companies will work together to build an "innovation Lab (Innovation Lab)" at Facebook's Menlo (Menlo Park) campus. The laboratory will also serve as an integral part of the Internet.org's access to the Internet for further outreach programs.

The Innovation Lab is also part of Facebook's positioning itself as a mobile enterprise program. While most people have the impression that Facebook is a social-focused business, Facebook actually wants to be associated with the mobile world as if it had spent 19 billion of billions of dollars on mobile apps WhatsApp last week.

9. WhatsApp will push the voice service in the second quarter of this year

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WHATSAPP CEO Jane Qom announced this week in the Barcelona Mobile World Congress (MWC) that WHATSAPP will support voice services in the second quarter of this year. Koum WhatsApp wants to develop business in all regions, including Korea, and voice services will help. "We use the least bandwidth and will focus on simplicity," he says. ”

Facebook announces Closure of email service

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Facebook said this week that it was shutting down its e-mail service, and that all future mail sent to @facebook.com mailboxes would be forwarded to the main contact mailbox in the user's profile.

Facebook users can also turn off this forwarding feature, and forwarding will be enabled by default. If you do not fill out the primary contact mailbox, you will not be able to receive forwarded messages. But these users will probably not miss important information. "Most people don't use @facebook.com mailboxes," says a Facebook spokeswoman. ”

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