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Informatica announces industry’s first intelligent healthcare data lake
Data management solutions and big data company Informatica LLC has announced the debut of the industry’s first intelligent data lake, a repository for raw data, that’s made specifically for healthcare. The healthcare industry sees a great deal of data from numerous sources, most of it unstructured and difficult to compile, curate and even store. Because of ...
IBM and Bosch link up to make industrial IoT easier
Computing industry giant IBM Corp. and the Bosch Group, a supplier of Internet of Things technologies, announced a collaboration today to make it easier for clients’ development and operations teams to manage IoT devices. As part of the partnership, Bosch will make its Bosch IoT Suite available on the IBM Bluemix cloud computing service and will ...
Two more major Japanese banks join funding for Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange
Tokyo-based bitFlyer Inc., Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange and blockchain financial technology company, today announced that three Japanese banking giants have joined in raising funds for the company. According to the press release, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Venture Capital, Mizuho Capital Company—investment arms of Japanese “mega-banks” Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc., respectively—and ...
Google’s Chrome browser is getting virtual reality support
Google Inc.’s widely used Chrome web browser has received an upgrade that enables it to view virtual reality content using the WebVR standard. Most VR content requires the use of a headset to receive the full immersive effect of “being there” but mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets can use sensors to make them ...
First government-hosted blockchain hackathon focuses on healthcare
The Chamber of Digital Commerce has announced the first U.S. government-hosted developer contest that will focus on the use of open-source distributed ledger technology, or blockchain technology, in the healthcare industry. The contest, called the “Blockchain in Healthcare Code-A-Thon,” is planned to take place March 14-15 and winners will be announced during the DC Blockchain ...
Hashed Health raises $1.8M to bring the blockchain to healthcare
Nashville-based Hashed Health, a group leading a consortium of companies interested in bringing blockchain distributed ledger technology to the U.S. healthcare system, today announced an initial funding round of $1.8 million. The funding round was led by Martin Ventures and joined by Shanghai-based blockchain venture capital company Fenbushi Capital. Blockchain technology can be used to provide ...
Irish Funds, Deloitte build blockchain for investment returns reporting
Dublin-based international investment community representative the Irish Funds Industry Association is working with financial consulting firm Deloitte LLP to develop a blockchain system for regulatory reporting of investment returns to the Central Bank of Ireland. According to the announcement from Irish Funds, the project focuses on the Resident Investment Fund Returns (Money Market and Investment ...
Workers at city hall in Recife, Brazil get an AI assistant
Information technology workers who want to get help at city hall in Recife, Brazil, soon may get it, fittingly enough, from a machine rather than a human. Global IT outsourcing company Stefanini is providing a virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence to information technology workers at city hall in Recife, Brazil. The virtual assistant, named Sophie, ...
Euclid Analytics taps Oracle Responsys to personalize retail shopping
Shopper behavior analysis firm Euclid Analytics Inc. today announced an integration with Oracle Corp.’s Responsys personalized automated email marketing platform to bridge the gap between online and offline shopping. Closing this gap would be particularly lucrative for physical stores because a lot of people use smartphones in stores. According to a study commissioned by Euclid Analytics, ...
Talk to me: IoT devices must tell consumers how they use data
More and more everyday items, from health wearables to smart beds to cars, now generate and send user data to third parties. As these Internet of Things devices proliferate, potentially betraying consumer habits and health information to faceless agents, privacy is no longer as simple as reading a short paragraph on what’s collected and who ...