"Silicon Valley Link" US retailer Alliance to ban Apple Pay push to pay system

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1. Google: Android and Chrome may merge in the future but not now

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Blaine Lakovsky, vice president of Google's Android product management, says two teams are now in charge of collaborative development of the Android mobile device software platform and the PC-side chrome operating system. But that does not mean a radical change, at least for now.

There are many indications that the two platforms have a convergence trend. This June, Google said it would make Android apps easier to convert to Chrome OS platforms, and vice versa. Google said in Friday that senior vice President Sander Pitzai would assume more product responsibilities, suggesting that Google might want to make all software platforms more unified. Last week Google also confirmed the role of the Android Deputy Chief engineer, Hiroshi Lockheimer, who will also be responsible for the development of the Chrome platform.

2. Twitter buys photo-sharing website Twitpic

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Twitter will buy Twitpic sites, according to Re/code, a technology blogger. The site is designed to allow users to post photos to the Twitter site.

Twitpic recently announced on its official blog that after months of "rollercoaster-like experience," it has reached an agreement with Twitter to give the latter Twitpic domain names and photo archives-a move that will ensure that existing photos and links remain.

"This will be my final chapter with Twitpic, and once again I want to thank you for the last 7 years that have made me part of your photo-sharing memories." It's an honor to me. Twitpic founder Noa Everett (Noah Everett) said in a post.

3. Google's Nest acquisition of Smart home router company Revolv

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Nest, Google's smart thermostat maker, announced in Friday that it had acquired the smart home router start-up company, Revolv, in the hope of further building a smart home platform.

The financial terms of the transaction have not been announced. But Nest's PR staff said the deal was officially completed in early Friday.

Headquartered in Colorado State Revolv specializes in the production of hardware routers, can integrate a variety of radio frequencies, so that a wide range of smart home products can transmit information to each other.

4. US retailer Alliance to ban Apple Pay push to pay system

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Although Apple's payment service pay Apple's launch has caused a stir, not all retailers are willing to use the new payment system, according to Theverge, a technology blogger.

In fact, many retail giants, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Kmart, outlets, and Apple Pay have direct competition. These retailers are developing their own mobile payment application CurrentC through a joint venture created in 2012, and are not going to support Apple Pay. CurrentC is expected to launch next year.

5. Microsoft confirms to push Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia

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Since last month, Microsoft has hinted at plans to abandon Nokia and Windows Phone brands. Microsoft has also been slowly moving nokia.com to its new mobile web site. Earlier this week, there was news on the web that Microsoft would opt out of the Microsoft Lumia brand in the near future to replace the current Noika Lumia, when Microsoft officially announced the launch of the Microsoft Lumia brand in late October 24. And will soon launch the brand's first WP8.1 device, the new machine will be in the fuselage with a Microsoft logo.

Microsoft's move does not mean the disappearance of Nokia. It is understood that Nokia brand will still exist, is now an independent company, does not involve mobile phone business, focus on research and development of maps and other content.

6. British media: Not only social networking Twitter will promote the development of the Internet of Things

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Twitter's mobile development platform was introduced this week, making programming easier. Internet Data Center Analysts predict that the market value of IoT will rise by 5 trillion dollars over the next six years, which is definitely a piece of meat for developers.

Twitter's development support staff Piper said that Twitter has long been a platform for people to advertise inanimate parts, such as the first plant sensor, which had a Twitter account in 2008, which could publish "tweets" in the absence of water and require watering. He also said anyone could write programs through Twitter's application interface to record data through sensors in a building or public facility and inform the outside world in the form of tweets.

7. "Reactiveness" app developer accuses Facebook of stealing its creative threat to sue

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The "reactiveness" app developer said it was suing the Facebook book, accusing its recently released iphone version of the chat room software "rooms" of plagiarism. Recently, Facebook has launched a "rooms" application that allows users to create chat rooms based on interest and allow others to participate in chat. The app is released for the iphone and plans to expand to other platform versions. Yet another application, which has a similar function, called "reactiveness", has been on the app store since last September, and its creators say Facebook stole their ideas.

8. MIT computer scientist can predict the price of a Bitcoin

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Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a machine learning algorithm that predicts volatile bitcoin prices. His team received nearly one-fold return on the investment in bitcoin within 50 days. Earlier this year, Devavrat Shah and Kang Zhang, who recently graduated, collected price data for all major Bitcoin trading platforms within five months, using the Bayesian regression training algorithm to automatically identify patterns from the data, then forecast future prices and trade according to forecasts.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)