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 ...

It’s no surprise that the blockchain community is moving rapidly with new innovations on an almost weekly basis. What’s surprising is that U.S. regulators have so far declined to step in, while other countries move boldly ahead with their own blockchain initiatives. There was both optimism over new uses for the distributed ledger and nervous ...

More than 90 percent of the world’s searches are driven by Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure. The company rakes in $32 billion of search advertising revenue for the U.S. market, which is nearly $30 billion more than its closest competitor. What’s more, it’s probably the world’s largest cloud company in terms of aggregate resources and has contributed an ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. has announced new features which increase the computing tasks that can be performed with the Snowball Edge appliance for data migration between connected devices, and also boost the level of security. Specifically, a local version of AWS’ web-scale configuration tool Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, can now run directly on the machine. “You can ...