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The new fund was part of 3 major components that included a platform-as-a-service offering, a developer program, all geared toward advancing the next wave of innovative technologies.
Social network Facebook keeps getting deeper & deeper into e-commerce, especially in the smartphone sphere. It now wants users to shop from their mobile phones without ever leaving the FB app. In what is being seen as not only a fresh move into e-commerce but also as a move to compete with Amazon, Facebook announced on Monday it was testing several ad features that allowed users to shop directly through its app.
The 3 new series of ClearPad discrete touch controller solutions enable increased functionality & entirely new dimensions of touch, including force sensing for smartphones, Tablets & even automotive applications.
Google Inc. today introduced some hardware, some software & some things in between. There are now 2 new Nexus phones, a Tablet, updates to Chromecast & added features for some of its apps.
The Nexus 6P smartphone is the 1st all-metal-body Nexus phone. Built in collaboration with Huawei, this 5.7” phone is crafted from aeronautical-grade aluminum, with a USB Type-C port for fast charging, a powerful 64-bit processor, & a 12.3 MP camera sensor with massive 1.55µm pixels.
Reports: USA Today, New York Times, re/code
The Internet of Things Security Foundation, officially launched yesterday, has announced its inaugural conference as part of its mission to promote security excellence throughout applications of IoT.
Backblaze, a company founded in 2007 as an enterprise backup service, has now decided to get into a different business – Cloud storage. It has announced the private beta of Backblaze B2, a competitively priced Cloud storage service that is poised to compete with the likes of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure & Google’s Cloud Platform.
Reports: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, Fortune, VentureBeat