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Amazon is now the top corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe

By Maria Deutscher Apr 19, 2021

Amazon.com Inc. today revealed that it’s investing in nine large-scale wind and solar energy generation projects globally to advance its goal of switching entirely to green power by 2025. The installations are located in…

Cloud

Google shares technical overview of its exabyte-scale Colossus file system

By Maria Deutscher Apr 19, 2021

Google LLC today published a technical blog post detailing Colossus, the internal file system that powers Google Cloud and many of the company’s consumer services, including its namesake search engine. Colossus is a software…

Big Data

Data and analytics now becoming a core business function

By Saul Judah Apr 19, 2021

Data and analytics is shifting to become a core business function, placing it among this year’s top trends according to Gartner. As organizations accelerate their digital business transformation efforts, business-domain-led D&A, data literacy,…

Policy

UK opens probe of $40B Nvidia-Arm deal to probe national security implications

By Maria Deutscher Apr 19, 2021

The U.K. will look into Nvidia Corp.’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm Ltd. to determine if the deal could potentially pose national security issues. The probe was announced today following…

Blockchain

UAE launches Trade Connect blockchain-based trade-finance platform to combat fraud

By Kyt Dotson Apr 19, 2021

The United Arab Emirates today launched a new blockchain-based platform called UAE Trade Connect that’s designed to prevent economic crimes such as under-invoicing, money laundering and fraud in trade finance. The distributed ledger blockchain…

Big Data

Demand Science buys Internal Results and Leadiro to boost B2B sales platform

By Mike Wheatley Apr 19, 2021

Global buyer intelligence platform provider Demand Science International LLC is expanding its capabilities with a pair of key acquisitions announced today. The company said it’s buying a British company called Internal Results UK Ltd.…

Cloud

Druva raises $147M at $2B+ valuation as cloud backup market keeps growing

By Maria Deutscher Apr 19, 2021

Druva Inc., a major player in the growing cloud-based data protection market, has closed a $147 million funding round at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. The company, which first achieved unicorn status in 2019,…

AI

Unity launches synthetic datasets for computer vision AI

By Mike Wheatley Apr 19, 2021

Videogame software developer Unity Software Inc. is getting into the business of selling synthetic image datasets that it says can be used to create computer vision artificial intelligence models faster and at a much…

AI

Siemens will use Google’s AI to enable more efficient factory automation

By Mike Wheatley Apr 19, 2021

Google LLC said early today that its Google Cloud computing unit will work with the industrial giant Siemens AG to create new artificial intelligence products that can help to optimize process and improve productivity…

Emerging Tech

WordPress will block Google’s new FLoC web tracking cookie replacement

By Duncan Riley Apr 19, 2021

Google LLC’s attempt to replace browser cookies with an alternative system called FLoC has now been rejected by Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress, the content management system that powers about 40% of all…

the latest

Amazon is now the top corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe

Data and analytics now becoming a core business function

UK opens probe of $40B Nvidia-Arm deal to probe national security implications

UAE launches Trade Connect blockchain-based trade-finance platform to combat fraud

Demand Science buys Internal Results and Leadiro to boost B2B sales platform

Unity launches synthetic datasets for computer vision AI

WordPress will block Google’s new FLoC web tracking cookie replacement

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