"Silicon Valley Link" PCH buys American Flash purchase website fab.com

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1. PCH buys the American Flash purchase website fab.com

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The PCH Analysys ("PCH"), which helps startups design and manufacture hardware products as their main business, announces that the company has acquired Fab.com.

Fab.com was once a "darling" favored by venture capitalists and design fans, but now has to "sell on sale". Liam Kessi, a PCH CEO, declined to disclose the price of the deal, but Re/code, the US technology blogger, had previously reported The fab.com will be sold for $7 million in cash plus some 8 million dollar shares, based on a recent financing round of the PCH.

2. Line and CyberSource Alliance to expand line pay business

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According to the Wall Street Journal, Japan's communications application line says it has signed an agreement with Visa's global E-commerce payment company CyberSource to become a strategic partner to speed up the business expansion of the mobile payment system line pay launched last December.

3. Gartner: Apple super Samsung into the fourth quarter of the world's largest smart machine manufacturers

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According to Reuters, market research firm Gartner released the fourth quarter of 2014 and the full year of the Global Smart Machine Market Statistics report in Tuesday. The report shows Apple has the highest global smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, surpassing Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone maker since 2011.

The report shows that global smartphone sales to end users in the fourth quarter of last year reached a record 367.5 million, up 29.9% year-on-year. Apple squeezed Samsung into the world's biggest smartphone maker in the fourth quarter. Samsung has occupied the first place since 2011.

4. Uber will acquire maps and search startups Decarta

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According to Science and technology blog Mashable reports, the taxi application Uber will acquire maps and search startups Decarta, the price has not been disclosed.

The deal will be completed later this week. Uber aims to gain decarta skills and talents through this transaction. Founded in 1996, Decarta is headquartered in San Jose, California, offering a location-focused software platform that includes maps, local search, and progressive navigation.

"The Uber application is so reliable, affordable, and fluent, relying on a lot of maps based functionality," Uber said, "with the acquisition of Decarta, we will continue to fine-tune the products and services based on the map technology." ”

5. Former Google Google x display department head to join Oculus

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Immersion Virtual reality technology company Oculus Tuesday confirmed that the company has hired Google's secret hardware laboratory Google X's former head of the display department Mary Loh Jepsen (Mary Lou Jepsen).

Oculus spokeswoman declined to say what position Jepsen joined the company. Jepsen's personal profile on the social networking site, LinkedIn, shows that she worked for three years at Google X, leading two "moon landings" projects. At the end of last year, there were reports that Google X's display department was developing displays that could be stacked like Lego bricks, but Google had yet to issue any public statements on the project.

6. Apple Google confirms that it is repairing freak information security vulnerabilities

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Apple and Google said in Tuesday that they were repairing the recently discovered "Freak" information security vulnerabilities. This vulnerability affects mobile devices and Mac computers.

Researchers who found the vulnerability pointed out that using this web-page encryption technique, hackers could steal user communications from Apple Safari and Google's Android browser. An Apple spokeswoman said Apple has developed patches and will push them next week. Google spokesman said Google has also developed a patch, and has been provided to partners. However, she did not disclose when ordinary users will receive this patch.

7. Ford reportedly took out 200 miles of electric cars during the year

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Car magazine reports that Ford is preparing to launch a mass-market electric vehicle that can be recharged for 200 miles. It is reported that Ford will release the model this year, will compete with the Chevrolet Bolt and the upcoming Tesla Model 3 for the market, both to create a price of far less than 40000 U.S. dollars of electric vehicles. Traditional carmakers are racing to meet tougher emissions standards from 2017 to 2025, and in the next decade vehicles will be required to run 55 miles per gallon of petrol, which will require manufacturers to use alternative power and all-electric drives to meet them.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)