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Twitter is planning next week's layoffs

On October 10, according to Re/code news, Twitter is planning to start next week in company-wide layoffs. It was not clear how many employees will be affected by the layoffs. Inside information from the company said the layoffs will involve Twitter most of the departments.

On October 5, Jack Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) appointed as Twitter's CEO. Board of Directors selected XI a more important reason, is that he is one of the co-founder, is not afraid to make difficult but necessary decisions. He didn't waste too much time.

While job cuts in, Twitter will restructure on the company's organizational structure. Taking into account the technical staff accounted for about half of the total number of employees, the job cuts will affect a large number of technicians.

Dell will spin off Internet security business

According to BI reports, sources said Friday, in 2013 by trading private PC maker Dell, has been to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to file, ready to let its network security service SecureWorks to IPO.

The source said, SecureWorks in the summer had been secretly submitted a prospectus. At present, are working with United States banks, Morgan Stanley to develop the company's initial public offering.

SecureWorks is a software and consulting company Dell acquired in 2011. Sources also said the fastest SecureWorks will be carried out in December this year, the road show, and before the end of the list. It is reported that SecureWorks listing valued at about $ 2 billion.

Dell next week will be more than $ 50 billion acquisition of EMC

According to the Re/code news, Dell has been raised to $ 27.25 a share in cash, plus a VMware cloud computing company's tracking stock (Note: tracking stock is a company designed specifically to track companies within a specific part of a particular subsidiary or subsidiaries of publicly listed as a special class of stock of the business performance. ) Complete the overall acquisition of data storage giant EMC.

This also means that Dell will be over $ 50 billion of the total price to buy EMC. This deal will become the largest deal in the history of science and technology. Sources say, Dell and 2013 to help the company complete its $ 25 billion privatization deals in Silver Lake, has put together JPMorgan Chase, United States banks, Switzerland investment banks such as credit, want to make sure that raise funds to complete the transaction.

Musk mock Apple automotive business

Apple mouth and Tesla fight to a new level this week. Tesla CEO Yilong·masike (Elon Musk) laughing at Apple all engineers are recruited by Tesla not engineers.

Musk of Apple developing self-driving car efforts of the vitriolic comments have raised a lot of attention, forcing him to ease the relationship with Apple. Thomas g Tweet said: "actually, I don't hate Apple, this is a great company with numerous talents. I like their product, I'm glad they entered the field of electric vehicles. "

This comment one can't help but recall his musk at Tesla's comments in the first quarter, he said, if Apple's entry into the automotive sector, feels great!

Sony acquired depth sensors Softkinetic

Sony's acquisition of a sensor company Softkinetic. Smart home when you can change the wisdom family

The company's main products include: depth of depth-sensing chips, somatosensory iisu middleware, sensor equipment. Sony takeover Softkinetic's purpose is clear, in order to strengthen the Project of virtual reality equipment Morpheus.

Softkinetic has one of the Kinect killer, so Morpheus will have a complete human skeleton track. In addition, Softkinetic will also bring gesture recognition technology, used to interact in a virtual world. Plus you can look forward to is the perception of the real world and three dimensional reconstruction, appeared only in the HoloLens black technology might also appear in Morpheus.

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