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Google Cloud grows travel industry presence with new Sabre, Lufthansa deals
Google LLC has landed cloud computing deals with two of the biggest players in the global travel industry to power key parts of their digital transformation initiatives. The first contract, announced today, is a 10-year agreement with Sabre Corp. that will see Google become its “preferred cloud provider.” Southlake, Texas-based Sabre operates a payment platform ...
Facebook claims AI navigation milestone after models achieve 99.99% accuracy
Facebook Inc. today open-sourced a set of artificial intelligence models capable of reliably navigating indoor environments without a map, a breakthrough the company hopes will pave a path to smarter robots and voice assistants. AI-powered systems such as industrial robots require a map of the environment in which they operate to avoid taking wrong turns. The problem is ...
Backed by $116M, Skylo exits stealth with a satellite internet network for IoT devices
The 5.8 billion “internet of things” devices that are expected to see use in the enterprise this year will all require a way to connect to the web. San Mateo, California-based Skylo Technologies Inc. has an ambitious plan to address this need that involves geostationary satellites and an eight-by-eight-inch electronics box. The startup officially launched today after three ...
With $150M in annual recurring revenue, mobile analytics startup AppsFlyer raises $210M
AppsFlyer Inc. is not exactly a household name, but its software can be found on the vast majority of smartphones on the planet. The San Francisco-based startup sells analytics tools that companies such as Nike Inc. use to measure how well their app marketing campaigns are doing. AppsFlyer today announced that it has closed a $210 ...
As Amazon eyes growth in Asia, AWS to launch second Japanese cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it will launch a data center cluster, or region as the provider calls it, in the Japanese city of Osaka to address local demand for cloud services. Construction is expected to complete early next year. The Osaka data center cluster will be AWS’ ninth in the Asia Pacific region when ...
Meeting EU antitrust chief, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc., has penned an op-ed piece calling for the implementation of “global standards” to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. The piece was published in the Financial Times on Sunday night, hours before a scheduled meeting between Pichai and European Union competition head Margrethe Vestager. ...
Changing course, Facebook reportedly freezes plan to put ads in WhatsApp
Facebook Inc. has reportedly put its plan to sell ads inside WhatsApp on ice, a move that will likely set back the company’s efforts to realize a return the $22 billion it spent to acquire the service. The development was detailed by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday afternoon. Unnamed sources who spoke to the ...
Segment and 200+ other startups take a swipe at Salesforce
In a not-so-subtle dig at Salesforce.com Inc., a group of more than 200 companies hailing mostly from the startup ecosystem today took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad to decry incumbent customer relationship management systems. The coalition, headlined by customer data processing unicorn Segment Inc., calls itself the Platform of Independents. The Journal ad features a ...
Pledging to go ‘carbon negative’ by 2030, Microsoft unveils $1B climate fund
Microsoft Corp. today said that it will launch a $1 billion environmental technology fund as part of a broad, multipronged plan to become “carbon negative” by 2030. The initiative was unveiled at a special event hosted by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (pictured, right), Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood (center) and President Brad Smith (left). ...
Epsagon bags $16M to bring more transparency to containers and serverless apps
Epsagon Inc. thinks that it has found a better way to track down issues in software container and serverless computing environments. The New York-based startup, which entered the spotlight today after announcing that it has raised $16 million in funding, provides a monitoring platform focused specifically on modern cloud workloads. The platform collects data about applications ...