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Facebook Opens Artificial Intelligence Lab In Paris

Facebook (FB) has opened an artificial intelligence lab in Paris with a goal of improving the way users interact on the world’s largest social network. The company expects the lab to help it develop apps and services, including search technology, that will help users more effectively sort through text, photos and video. “It’s our hope that this research will ultimately help us make services like News Feed, photos and search even better and enable

GameStop buying Geeknet to cash in on collectibles

Video game retailerGameStop (GME) is moving quickly to diversify into the pop-culture collectibles market as concerns swirl that the shift to digital game sales will harm its core business. Grapevine, Texas-based GameStop on Tuesday announced plans to buy Geeknet (GKNT), the parent of ThinkGeek, which sells fun merchandise related to technology, video games and science-fiction and fantasy movies and TV shows. GameStop has agreed to pay $20 a share in cash for Geeknet in a deal valued at $140 million. Last month, Geeknet accepted a $122 million purchase offer from retailer Hot Topic. But GameStop stepped in with a richer bid. Geeknet will pay Hot Topic an undisclosed termination fee, for which GameStop has agreed to reimburse Geeknet. “The addition of Geeknet is an important expansion of our global multichannel platform, and we are excited to leverage their product development expertise to broaden our…

How Investors Can Play Commercial Drone Takeoff

Commercial drone usage in agriculture, industrial inspection and public safety will take off after favorable U.S. government regulations are announced by late 2016, becoming a “multibillion-dollar” market by 2020, forecasts Piper Jaffray in a research report. Piper Jaffray estimated the commercial drone market at about $650 million in 2014. If U.S. regulators open up the skies to commercial drones by late 2016, “we believe the UAV (unmanned aerial