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Facebook now lets users delete activity data it collects from other sites
Facebook Inc.’s ad targeting algorithms serve up promotions based on user data that the social network gathers via its platforms and from other services such as e-commerce websites. Today, the company launched a tool that will give consumers a measure of control over how it tracks them on other parts of the web. The tool, ...
Cisco infuses new voice AI, analytics capabilities into Webex portfolio
Cisco Systems Inc. kicked off its Cisco Live event in Barcelona today by rolling out two new tools to its Webex portfolio of communications and collaboration products, plus machine learning upgrades for the existing Webex Meetings service. The company announced the updates alongside a new release of its AppDynamics application management platform. The software, which ...
Two deals in a week: ServiceNow acquires Passage AI for its deep learning chatbots
Ahead of its earnings call this afternoon, ServiceNow Inc. today announced it has signed a deal to acquire Passage AI Inc., a startup specializing in chatbot development. Santa Clara, California-based Passage AI is the second artificial intelligence startup ServiceNow has acquired in the past week. It previously picked up Loom Systems Ltd., which provides an infrastructure ...
Scooter unicorn Bird raises $75M, acquires rival Circ to boost global growth
Bird Rides Inc., the scooter sharing startup valued at more than $2.5 billion, today announced that it has raised $75 million in additional funding and acquired competitor Circ to expand its global presence. The $75 million cash injection is an extension to the $275 million Series D round Bird closed in October. The investment was ...
After AppSheet buy, Google says it will shut down its low-code App Maker service
Google LLC today notified customers that App Maker, the low-code application development service included in G Suite, will be discontinued on Jan. 19, 2021. The product will be shut down in phases. Effective today, Google has stopped development work on App Maker, and the company will follow up the move on April 15 by removing ...
GM will invest $3B to scale up production of electric, self-driving vehicles
General Motors Co. said today that it will spend $3 billion to retool one of its main Michigan auto plants for the production of electric and self-driving vehicles. The lion’s share of the planned investment, $2.2 billion, will go directly into facility upgrades. GM said that it will bring in new “machines, conveyors, controls and ...
After a backlash, Google changes course on search results redesign
Google LLC said today that it will revisit a controversial recent redesign of its search engine that has been criticized as deceptive. This month, the desktop version of Google received a new look that has made ads harder to distinguish from regular search results. Paid and organic results are now presented in an almost identical ...
Google’s Dataproc service gets GPUs and management automation features
Dataproc is an analytics service from Google LLC that allows enterprises to spin up managed Spark and Hadoop big-data environments in the cloud. Today, the search giant updated the service with four features that promise to provide a boost for machine learning projects as well as simplify day-do-day maintenance. Companies using Dataproc for machine learning can ...
Italian regulators accuse Facebook of breaching data disclosure obligations
Italy’s antitrust watchdog today said it’s taking action against Facebook Inc. for the social giant’s alleged failure to implement data disclosure measures it was ordered to roll out in the southern European country. In November 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority hit Facebook with two fines totaling 10 million euros for breaching Italy’s consumer protection code. At ...
Google launches Dataset Search out of beta with new capabilities
After more than a year of testing, Google LLC today launched its Dataset Search service out of beta test mode with new capabilities aimed at enabling users to find information faster. Dataset Search is a version of the company’s search engine designed specifically for browsing collections of scientific and technical information. Google has to date indexed ...