| Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. In the blink of an eye, the mobile app that delivers self-destructing messages has self-destructed by selling out to Yahoo. Yahoo has bought Blink for an undisclosed amount, and will soon pull the app from iTunes and the Google Play store. The Internet giant apparently didn’t want the app but wanted the developers who worked at Blink. Blink had seven employees and they are all going to Yahoo, according to TechCrunch. One of Blink’s founders is a former product manager at Yahoo’s archrival Google. |
Other top stories:Syniverse to buy Aicent Syniverse has agreed to purchase Aicent, expanding its interconnection footprint and its analytics capabilities for mobile context. … Read More Net neutrality, 600 MHz auction set for May 15 FCC meeting Net neutrality and spectrum auctions continue to dominate telecom-related policy news. … Read More Report: Small cells vital to LTE deployment Michael Thelander, founder and CEO of Signals Research, spoke with RCR Wireless News about the findings of this report. … Read More |
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The IEA report predicts that AI processing in the U.S. will need more electricity than all heavy industries combined, such as steel, cement and chemicals
Energy demand for AI data centers in the U.S. is expected to grow about 50 gigawatt each year for the coming years, according to Aman Khan, CEO of International Business Consultants