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ture in his house.

“(That’s) much to the chagrin of my wife, who now cannot control the temperatur­e because it is programmed to only listen to my voice,” he quipped.

Zuckerberg addressed Italy’s earthquake early in the Q&A, outlining how the company has helped in the aftermath of a natural disaster that killed more than 290 people.

He noted that half the people in the region used a Facebook tool called Safety Check to let their loved ones know they were OK; the company has given 500,000 euros in ad credits for the Red Cross in Italy; and people are using the site to support disaster relief.

“The real pain and the real rebuilding happens over a long period of time,” he said. headsets. One possible reason for the change may be to create a bit more room on the iPhone in order to boost the phone’s battery, CNET reported.

The Apple Watch line, which first went on sale in 2015, is also expected to be updated.

The firm may be skipping a major redesign of the iPhone this year and instead focusing on unveiling a new line in 2017, using the device’s 10th anniversar­y to generate more excitement, some observers have speculated. An all-glass model with wireless charging may be in the works. Day, said Kathleen Smith, a founder and principal at Renaissanc­e Capital.

“We’re thinking it’s going to be right around the corner,” she said.

The few tech IPOs Silicon Valley has seen this year have done well, with Redwood City-based datasoftwa­re company Talend and San Francisco-based cloud communicat­ions startup Twilio both showing impressive pops on their first day of trading. Even so, the overall IPO market remains slow. There have been 59 U.S. IPOs so far this year, compared with 131 at this time last year, Smith said.

Nutanix declined to comment on its IPO plans.

The company updated its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in April. The company is not profitable and had an accumulate­d deficit of $345 million in January, according to the filing, but is growing its billings at an average rate of 20 percent per quarter.

When Nutanix does enter the public market, there will be plenty of investor interest because of its growth, Smith said.

“I think the real question,” she added, “is going to be what investors will pay.”

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