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Google launches its most significant update to Gmail in years
Google LLC is launching a major revamp of its Gmail service today as part of a larger update to its G Suite productivity suite for enterprises. The update, which looks to be one of the most significant that Gmail has seen in years, includes a new user interface, more features powered by its artificial intelligence ...
Oracle buys brand safety-focused marketing firm Grapeshot
Oracle Corp. quietly announced today it’s acquiring a company called Grapeshot Ltd., which has built marketing platform centered on ensuring brand safety. Grapeshot uses artificial intelligence to help marketers avoid placing advertisements alongside potentially damaging content online. For example, its system would automatically prevent an ad for dairy company being placed on a website that targets ...
Google expands cloud connectivity with Partner Interconnect
Google LLC is adding a new option for data center operators to connect to its cloud with the launch of its new Partner Interconnect service. The service adds to the existing Cloud VPN and Dedicated Interconnect options, which provide connectivity over the public internet or a private connection, respectively. Just like Dedicated Interconnect, which was ...
Trello gets major update to help users prioritize tasks and eliminate distractions
The popular task management service Trello, which was acquired by project management company Atlassian Inc. in 2017, is getting a major facelift. The company today announced Trello Home, a new dashboard that provides a single view of a user’s tasks in one place, surfacing those with the highest priority to the top. The new dashboard ...
Appian gives low-code software developers new AI capabilities
“Low-code” software development platform provider Appian Corp. is branching out into the contact center with a new version of its product catering specifically to their needs. The company announced it’s also updating its main offering, enabling users to add new artificial intelligence capabilities to the applications they build. The announcements were made during a keynote today ...
As profits jump 33%, SAP says it’s gaining on its rivals
SAP SE, Europe’s largest enterprise software company, raised its guidance for the year after posting solid first-quarter earnings and closing its acquisition of Callidus Software Inc. SAP said early Wednesday in Germany that its earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation jumped 33 percent, to 708 million euros ($866.5 million), from the same quarter a ...
SAP launches cloud-based IoT systems for manufacturers
Enterprise software giant SAP SE is targeting manufacturers with a new suite of products aimed at helping them manage and monitor their systems and make them work better with other parts of the supply chain. The new offerings, part of SAP’s Digital Manufacturing Cloud, include the “SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for execution,” which integrates ...
Arcadia Data enables visual analytics for Apache Kafka streaming data
Business intelligence platform provider Arcadia Data Inc. is bidding to democratize real-time streaming analytics with a new visual analytics tool for the Apache Kafka publish-subscribe messaging system. Apache Kafka is open-source stream-processing software that aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s an extremely valuable tool for enterprises that ...
Apple makes its FoundationDB database open-source
Apple Inc. has made an interesting about-face, open-sourcing the FoundationDB database that the company acquired back in 2015. Although FoundationDB might not be one of Apple’s best-known projects, it does do a very important job, serving as the backbone of its iCloud service, which stores and synchronizes data for the company’s millions of users. Apple ...
Why Facebook is following Apple and Google to build its own computer chips
Embattled social media giant Facebook Inc. is set to join the trend among larger technology firms to reduce its dependence on silicon suppliers such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. Tech giants such as Apple Inc. and Google LLC have been designing their own computer chips for some time already. Now, according to Bloomberg, Facebook is ...