Here s what s on the Wednesday menu.
ICYMI: Amazon is opening 300 to 400 bookstores, according to a mall executive.
Google is expanding its testing of self-driving cars to Washington state.
Google says it is not going to create fake results when people search for ISIS, contrary to reports yesterday.
Microsoft is buying SwiftKey, which makes the popular alternative to the default keyboards on iPhone and Android smartphones. But the acquisition is about AI.
Private startups bought back $940 million of employee stock last year, an increase of more than 40 percent from 2014, according to Nasdaq Private Market. (WSJ)
Activist investor Starboard has bought a 6.7 percent stake in Marvell Technology. Marvell shares are up. (WSJ)
Cisco gets partial win in patent battle with Arista Networks.
Four current and former UC Berkeley students have sued Google over Gmail scanning of their university email accounts.
New study says low-income Americans have slow Internet access, or access the Net solely on their phones. Meanwhile, the FCC says Internet subsidies coming in not too distant future.
New Fitbit Alta is supposed to be more fashionable, and will remind users to get moving.
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