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IBM completes sale of its Watson Marketing business
IBM Corp. said today that its Watson Marketing platform has launched as a standalone company, about three months after saying it was planning to sell the commerce and marketing cloud business to an investment firm called Centerbridge Partners L.P. The new company, which has yet to announce its name and brand, will sell artificial intelligence-powered ...
Applied Materials buys Japan’s Kokusai for $2.2B to boost memory-chip presence
Semiconductor industry equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc., one of the largest makers of software and machines used by chipmakers such as Intel Corp., today said it has reached a deal to acquire Kokusai Electric Corp. for about $2.2 billion. Kokusai will operate as a separate business unit within Applied Material’s semiconductor products group once the ...
Huawei sales ban reprieve covers only ‘widely available’ products
White House officials have moved to clarify U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to relax a ban on American companies doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Reuters reported today that the sanctions reprieve will only apply to products that are “widely available” and not the most sensitive equipment. Trump handed Huawei a lifeline Saturday following ...
Google is building another private subsea cable to link Europe with Africa
Google LLC said today it’s building another private subsea cable, this time linking Western Europe with the African continent. The new subsea cable, called “Equiano,” and will run from Lisbon in Portugal all the way down the west coast of Africa to Cape Town in South Africa, with several “branching units” planned that will extend ...
IBM and Trifacta collaborate on new data prep tool for AI models
IBM Corp. is trying to address the cumbersome and time-consuming process of preparing data for use in artificial intelligence and machine learning model training with a new data preparation tool it developed in tandem with Trifacta Inc. The companies point out that data preparation is an essential step in building machine learning and predictive models. ...
Software-as-a-service spending poised to hit $100B annually
Analyst firm Synergy Research Group today provided an update on the state of the enterprise software-as-a-service market, saying that it’s on track to hit a $100 billion annual run rate in the current quarter. Synergy’s data shows the market grew by more than 30% in the last year, driving more than $23 billion in revenue for the ...
Google debuts Deep Learning Containers in beta
Google LLC this week announced the beta availability of a new cloud service that provides environments optimized for deploying and testing applications powered by deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence that tries to mimic the way the human brain tackles problems. The service, called Deep Learning Containers, can be run both in the cloud ...
Oracle launches a more secure version of its Autonomous Database service
Oracle Corp. is adding a new private database service option called Autonomous Database Dedicated for customers that can’t run their most critical workloads on its public cloud infrastructure platform. The company said the new service announced today is designed for enterprises that have “high security or operational policy requirements” but would like to benefit from its ...
BlackBerry barely beats earnings estimates on slow Cylance sales
Enterprise mobility and security company BlackBerry Ltd. edged past expectations today as it reported its fiscal first-quarter earnings. The company, which has transitioned away from its former business of selling smartphones, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of a penny per share on revenue of $267 million. Wall Street was expecting break-even ...
Apple has hired Arm’s lead CPU architect Mike Filippo
It’s no secret that Apple Inc. has ambitions to build its own hardware as it tries to reduce its reliance on third-party suppliers. The iPhone maker has already taken a number of steps in that direction, designing its A-series chips for its smartphones for example, and it’s also said to want to build its own ...