Apple unveiled new iPhones, the plus-sized iPad Pro and an all-new,
Yesterday, Apple unveiled new iPhones, the plus-sized iPad Pro and an all-new, Siri-powered Apple TV. The incremental changes to the iPhone won't generate crazy numbers like last year's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus did, but Cupertino flexed its AI muscles with the voice-activated search function in the new Apple TV service. As for the iPad Pro, Apple leaned extra hard on its potential for enterprise customers.
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Last year, Gurbaksh Chahal was booted from RadiumOne, the ad tech startup he founded, because of his misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Documents recently obtained by the Wall Street Journal suggest that RadiumOne investors initially tried to help Chahal hush up the incident, paying former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown a $250,000 retainer to help make the charges disappear.
[Jeff Elder | The Wall Street Journal]
Chalk up another regulatory win for Silicon Valley: A bill in the California legislature that threatened to halt commercial drone usage has been vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown.
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Cloud storage companies (especially Dropbox) have been struggling lately, which makes Box's 43 percent spike in second-quarter revenue and optimistic full-year forecast all the more surprising to investors. The company's giant marketing budget further widened its loss, but Wall Street didn't seem to care as Box shares rose 3 percent.
[Don Clark and Josh Beckerman | The Wall Street Journal]