It might be hard to imagine, but the future of the industrial internet of things could well be symbolized by the much-beloved rubber duck. Ever since a sculptor patented a now-familiar rubber duck design in 1949, the iconic bath toy has steadily worked its way into global culture. It’s the name of a minor league baseball ...

It wasn’t love at first sight, and it has taken a lot of conversation on both sides, but regulators and participants in the burgeoning token economy are sending signals that they are getting to know each other a lot better. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report, titled “Nonbank Financials, Fintech ...

Sometimes a business does so well that results outpace network systems. LendingClub Corp. is just such a story. In the last quarter of 2011, LendingClub issued 42,000 loans valued at $480 million. By the fourth quarter, close to six years later, the company processed 2.7 million loans with a total value in excess of $33 billion. But ...

The challenge of finding employment straight out of high school can be daunting. With little real-world job experience, young people can be at a significant disadvantage in getting hired. To help solve this problem for underprivileged youth in South Africa, the non-profit Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator has built a model based on what it calls ...

Although Google Cloud officially launched a program for non-profit groups, called Data Solutions for Change, at the just-concluded Next conference in San Francisco, that doesn’t mean eligible organizations need to wait for results. Several groups are already up and running in the cloud with Google LLC’s support. The Foundation for Precision Medicine has been using ...

In the race for enterprise cloud market share, where Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure currently dominate, Google Cloud’s strategy has resembled slow and steady, with a methodical approach that has involved incubating sophisticated engineering-centric products internally first and then gradually rolling them out to customers. In a tech industry filled with hares, ...

On day two of Google’s Cloud Next gathering in San Francisco, attendees heard presentations which included some large big data enterprise names like Chevron, Mastercard and Twitter. Could this be a sign that Google LLC is turning the corner in gaining large-scale enterprise adoption for its cloud business? “Google Cloud is showing some customers up there, ...

As a digital tsunami engulfs the medical profession, Google is stepping in with life preservers. The National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research, announced Tuesday that it would join with Google Cloud on an initiative to broaden access to research data, utilizing storage, computing and machine learning technologies. “Doctors and researchers are ...

The emergence of Arrcus Inc. from stealth mode and the release of its first product, ArcOS, represents an opening salvo in what could become major disruption in the networking world. The multi-billion networking industry has been dominated by a small yet powerful number of vendors, and Arrcus has a grand plan to change that situation. The ...

If Amazon Web Services Inc. really wants to make machine learning services as ubiquitous as vanilla ice cream, its approach so far is turning it into something quite different. It’s more like Vietnamese coffee with frosted almonds and peanut butter curry, a flavor that can actually be ordered at one ice cream shop in San Francisco. AWS announced a ...