"Silicon Valley Link" YouTube launches a new round of original fund plan to support original content

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1. Apple and U2 cooperate to push new digital music form to save the music market

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According to foreign media reports, although Apple's recent cooperation with the U2 band seems to have not been favored, but they will soon take the next step. U2 The Times Magazine that it is working with Apple on digital music. The partnership aims to get more people to buy digital music albums to save the music that is slowing down.

Digital music has made the music industry quite helpless over the years, because digital stores like itunes, which buy a single song for less than 1.29 dollars, get rid of all the pieces, and the income that musicians can earn is less pathetic. The only way to make a musician's money now is to attract fans to pay to see a concert or buy a related product. U2 lead singer Bono revealed that the cooperation with Apple will introduce a new digital music form, to help those who are not many fans of the music can tour. Apple is also highly secretive about the partnership and requires all third party companies and individuals to be equally secretive.

2. Oracle announces CEO Ellison resigns as executive chairman

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According to Reuters, Oracle announced in Thursday that the company's CEO, Larry Ellison, will step down as executive chairman of the Ellison.

Oracle founder Ellison announced his resignation as CEO, Hurd Mark Hurd and Savera Caze as co-CEO. Mr. Ellison, who founded Oracle in 1977, has since been the company's CEO, the only CEO of Oracle's previous history.

3.8.3 billion USD for SAP to buy US travel management service provider Concur

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SAP, the software giant, will buy US travel management service provider Concur Technologies at $129 a share, a premium of 20% per cent over the closing price of the previous session and a $8.3 billion trillion in concur valuations.

SAP provides software and services to 261,000 companies around the world, a wide range of businesses that can bring new resources to concur and expand the concur platform to win new developers and partners. Mr Singh said he hoped that concur's focus on innovation and customer success would be more stable over the next few years.

4. Amazon 4.6 million won the top-level domain. Buy "

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AOL retailer Amazon has become a pioneer in the era of new internet domain names, today at a price of 4.6 million U.S. dollars to the top domain. Buy ", get". Buy the site "exclusive access rights.

The Domainnamewire website, which is concerned about news of the domain name, reported that Amazon beat Google and the other two rivals to win. Buy "domain name. Google has since bid ". VIP "domain name, but still did not succeed, was finally Minds+machines company to buy 3 million dollars price.

5. Google plans to standardize encryption capabilities from the next generation of Android

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Just yesterday, Apple CEO Cook posted a new open letter on the company's web site, once again pledging to its users that they will protect the privacy and security of iOS and Mac users, and that the company attaches importance to user privacy and security. As Apple's powerful mobile-system competitor, Google naturally does not allow itself to lag behind Apple in this respect. It is reported that Google announced that in the future, they will be in all the Android devices to encrypt the user's data.

Google told the media that device encryption would no longer be a function for the user to select, but a feature that would be activated once the device was started. That is, what type of data, as long as it is stored on the Android phone or tablet, can only access the data when the correct password is entered.

6. Microsoft's second round of layoffs cut 2100 people shut down Silicon Valley Institute

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Microsoft announced in Thursday that it would cut 2100 people in a second round of layoffs and close the Silicon Valley institute, Reuters reported. The layoffs are part of a 18,000-person layoff plan that Microsoft announced earlier.

News of the closure of the Microsoft Mountain View Academy in California was first disclosed by Microsoft employees on Twitter. Microsoft then confirmed it and said the closure of the institute would result in 50 of people being cut. After the layoffs, Microsoft still has 2,500 employees in Mountain View, close to the number of its rival Google employees.

7. YouTube invests more money in original content to start a new round of original fund plan

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Content is still king, not only the major domestic video site music, love singular, Tencent, excellent soil at different paces to start the original copyright content program, YouTube is so. It also launched a new round of original fund plan, and 3 years ago, the 100 million dollar difference is that this round of funds will be forced to tap those who have small achievements of the original artists.

"It's not easy to create attractive content, we want to learn more in the process, experiment with new ideas and forms, practice, make mistakes, and finally make some wonderful new content," said originals, the head of the YouTube department. ”

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)