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The European Union today fined Google LLC 1.49 billion euros, or about $1.7 billion, after finding that the company created competitive obstacles for rivals in the online advertising market. Most of Google’s ad revenue comes from its own search engine, but it …
Google debuts Stadia, a cloud gaming service powered by custom AMD chips
Google LLC today pulled back the curtains on Stadia, a new cloud service that will use specially designed chips to let consumers play desktop video games on any device. Historically, the complex three-dimensional games that rule the market have required fairly powerful …
Salesforce adds new AI and collaboration features to automate customer service
Salesforce.com Inc.’s Service Cloud grew 50 percent faster than its flagship customer relationship management platform in 2018, ending the year with revenue of more than $2.8 billion. Today, the company introduced a set of new artificial intelligence features in a bid to …
Apple upgrades iMac and iMac Pro, promising up to 240% more performance
A day after introducing upgraded versions of the iPad Air and iPad mini, Apple Inc. today refreshed yet another product line that it hasn’t updated in a while. The company is launching five new configurations of its popular iMac all-in-one desktop computer …
US government taps Intel to build its first ‘exascale’ supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy has tapped Intel Corp. to build a massive new supercomputer that will surpass the capabilities of even the most powerful systems currently in existence. The chipmaker said today that the planned system, dubbed Aurora, will provide an …
Apple debuts faster, more visually capable iPad Air and iPad mini
After omitting the iPad Air and iPad mini from its last few product refresh cycles, Apple Inc. today debuted new versions of the tablets that feature major upgrades across the board. The iPad Air (pictured, left) is making its return two years after the release …
Stanford launches ambitious new AI institute co-led by former Google exec
Stanford University is launching an interdisciplinary research institute backed by a who’s who of the tech industry to explore how artificial intelligence will affect society, as well as discover new applications for the technology. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, or …
With new encryption management tool, Slack seeks to court large enterprises
Slack Technologies Inc. is expanding its cybersecurity capabilities in a bid to win more enterprise customers. The team chat provider today launched Slack EKM, a new tool that will enable companies to encrypt employee correspondence using their own cryptographic keys. Slack already …
PagerDuty files for IPO after passing $100M in annual revenue
Incident response specialist PagerDuty Inc. today publicly filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange, revealing that it’s seeing strong revenue growth but has not yet turned a profit. The San Francisco-based “unicorn” startup sells a cloud platform used by information technology teams to alert …
Apple hits back at Spotify’s accusations of anticompetitive behavior
Apple Inc. has hit back at Spotify Technology AB’s claims that its App Store rules are anticompetitive, escalating a war of words potentially on track to draw regulatory scrutiny. Spotify submitted an antitrust complaint to the European Commission earlier this week over what it argues …