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IBM and Salesforce pitch data-powered services
IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. today are building on a global strategic partnership around artificial intelligence that was announced last March. The first of the new services is IBM Cloud Integration for Salesforce, which helps connect enterprise and external data that sits outside a company’s customer relationship management system for better insights. With the integration, ...
Self-driving vehicle startup Zoox scoops up 17 Apple automotive engineers
A large number of automotive engineers reportedly have left Apple Inc. in the last few months to work for a self-driving car startup called Zoox Inc. The departures are said to be the result of a decision by Apple to wind down its own autonomous vehicle project. Bloomberg reported that 17 engineers have left Apple for ...
MapR’s Orbit Cloud Suite extends analytics and applications to hybrid clouds
MapR Technologies Inc. is extending its support for customers with hybrid cloud strategies through the launch of its new Orbit Cloud Suite. The new product is designed to provide additional cloud computing capabilities for the MapR Converged Data Platform, enabling users to build data fabrics that can be used to manage data across multiple public ...
Amazon accelerates graphics performance with Elastic graphics chips
Software developers seeking better graphics in their applications no doubt will be interested in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s latest offering. The public cloud giant has just announced general availability of its Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows, which attach to Elastic Compute Cloud instances in order to accelerate graphics performance in applications by tapping the ...
Burger King debuts WhopperCoin as a loyalty reward program in Russia
Fast-food chain Burger King Corp. has launched its own cryptocurrency as an alternative to traditional loyalty reward scheme. WhopperCoin, as the new currency is aptly named, was launched in Russia earlier this week. Burger King said it’s giving away one free coin to customers for each ruble (1.7 cents) spent on Whopper burgers at its ...
Google says it will comply with EU demands on shopping search results
Search engine giant Google Inc. has said it will comply with European Union demands to amend the way it displays its shopping search results. The apparent concession comes after the company was slapped with a record $2.7 billion fine for engaging in anticompetitive behavior last June. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Google has officially informed the EU of its ...
OpenStack Pike release delivers a more modular approach to private clouds
The massive open-source private cloud project OpenStack just put out another release today that’s designed to bring the features of public clouds such as Amazon Web Services to private data centers. Once again in this 16th version, there’s a huge number of updates, but the main focus is on making OpenStack more modular, and hence ...
LevaData’s new AI platform takes aim at supply chain costs
Artificial intelligence startup LevaData Inc. thinks it can help enterprises get a better handle on their supply chains, with the goal of reducing costs and eliminating risks that could hurt their bottom lines. To do so, the company today announced the launch of its Cognitive Sourcing Platform, which combines market intelligence with enterprise data before ...
Cloudian and Skymind team up on data management for AI systems
Object storage system provider Cloudian Inc. and deep learning company Skymind Inc. are teaming up to provide data management solutions for artificial intelligence systems. Emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning are seeing rapid adoption as companies bet on their potential to tackle problems that simply couldn’t be solved before. But Cloudian and Skymind ...
Agile monetization firm BillingPlatform gets new CEO & funding boost
BillingPlatform, a startup that’s aiming to transform the way companies can charge for their products and services, has hired a new chief executive officer to lead its war on legacy billing providers. In addition, the company has landed $4 million in funding from venture capitalist firm Columbia Capital. The cash will be topped up by ...