Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Google saved itself $3.7B in taxes in 2016 thanks to Irish legal loophole

By Mike Wheatley Jan 2, 2018

Google LLC reportedly saved itself $3.7 billion in taxes in 2016 after shifting around 16 billion euros between its accounts in Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda. The company exploited a couple of well-known legal…

Apps

Microsoft submits patent for Phone Dock compatible with Apple’s iPhone

By Mike Wheatley Jan 1, 2018

Microsoft Corp. could be about to target the iPhone accessories market after submitting a patent application for a new peripheral device that’s intended to make phone calls easier for personal computer users. The MS…

Apps

Germany’s strict new social media hate speech law goes into effect

By Mike Wheatley Jan 1, 2018

Starting today, Germany plans to enforce a new law that compels social media companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to remove posts containing “hate speech” within a specific time frame or face…

Emerging Tech

Alibaba Cloud uses AI to combat congestion at Beijing’s busy international airport

By Mike Wheatley Dec 20, 2017

While most American tech firms are shutting down for Christmas, it’s business as usual in China, where Alibaba Cloud, the public cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., is unveiling new artificial intelligence…

Apps

Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

Twitter Inc. on Tuesday announced it’s making an enterprise version of its Account Activity application programming interface available to software developers. The new API will allow developers to build more sophisticated applications for businesses…

Apps

DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

E-signature and digital transaction company DocuSign Inc. today agreed a deal to buy the technology assets and hire most of the staff from a machine learning startup called Appuri Inc. The terms of the deal,…

Emerging Tech

Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

Researchers at Google LLC are taking image recognition to the next level with an experimental machine learning model that can rank photos according to their aesthetic appeal. The new model, called Neural Image Assessment,…

Cloud

HyTrust touts new data discovery tool to secure virtualized environments

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

Cloud computing security firm HyTrust Inc. is bolstering its portfolio with a new offering that enables enterprises to identify their most sensitive data and put safeguards in place to ensure it’s protected. The company…

Infra

Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

Maana Inc. today said it has raised a $28 million late-stage funding round to expand its effort to win the data analytics market for the oil and gas industry. New investors China International Capital Corp.,…

Cloud

Amazon Web Services opens its first cloud region in France

By Mike Wheatley Dec 19, 2017

Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is wrapping up a busy end of year with the opening of a new region in France. The AWS EU (Paris) Region is the company’s fourth region…

Mike Wheatley

Google saved itself $3.7B in taxes in 2016 thanks to Irish legal loophole

Microsoft submits patent for Phone Dock compatible with Apple’s iPhone

Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service

DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise

Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye

Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics

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