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Akamai acquires identity provider Janrain to boost security portfolio

By Maria Deutscher Jan 7, 2019

A week into 2019, Akamai Technologies Inc. has already made its first acquisition of the year. The cybersecurity and content delivery heavyweight today announced that it has picked up Janrain Inc., a Portland-based identity…

AI

Network of know-it-alls fixes buggy AI

By R. Danes Jan 7, 2019

It’s a known fact that online customer service, by and large, isn’t the most pleasant experience. Companies often have ambitious plans to improve it with automation and artificial intelligence (think chatbots). But such initiatives often lack the…

Emerging Tech

Cisco tours world for locally sourced, globally scalable innovation

By R. Danes Jan 7, 2019

Waiting for Silicon Valley to solve the economic, industrial and social ills in Oceania? It might be smarter to pair advanced technology with local wisdom about region-specific problems. What comes out may be groundbreaking,…

IoT

Microsoft teams up with Kroger to take on Amazon’s cashierless stores

By Maria Deutscher Jan 7, 2019

Microsoft Corp. and Kroger Co. are teaming up to develop an answer to Amazon.com Inc.’s cashierless stores. The partnership, announced today, will see the companies bring to market a retail automation platform powered by Microsoft’s…

Emerging Tech

Nix the New Year’s innovation resolution — mini sprints get more done at work

By R. Danes Jan 7, 2019

There are several theories about why a company’s innovation projects, whether for big data or artificial intelligence, are failing. Some argue that nothing’s wrong with the technology; it’s the culture that keeps companies stuck. Indeed, many innovation plans…

AI

Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

By Robert Hof Jan 7, 2019

For a technology that’s decades old, artificial intelligence managed to emerge in the public imagination as one of the signature technologies of 2018 — if not always in a positive way. On the upside,…

Cloud

Open-source software support provider Tidelift raises $25M

By Mike Wheatley Jan 7, 2019

Open-source software company Tidelift Inc. is heading into the new year with renewed momentum after snagging a $25 million round of funding. The Series B round announced today was led by the investment firms…

Emerging Tech

Report: 2018 was the biggest year for venture capital funding since 2000

By Duncan Riley Jan 7, 2019

2018 saw the highest level of venture capital funding since 2000, the last year of the dot-com bubble, according to the latest PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report released early Monday. For the year, $207 billion was…

Policy

Screen time may not be that bad for kids, British doctors say

By James Farrell Jan 6, 2019

A lot of time spent looking at smartphone screens might not be too bad for kids if they have healthy lifestyles already, according to some leading British children’s doctors. The Royal College of Pediatrics…

Blockchain

Kraken cryptocurrency exchange says more disclosure requests are a burden

By Duncan Riley Jan 6, 2019

San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange Kraken today released statistics showing that it’s increasingly burdened by disclosure requests, particularly from U.S. law enforcement and regulators. For 2018, Kraken, formally known as Payward Inc., said it had received 475 law…

all stories

Network of know-it-alls fixes buggy AI

Cisco tours world for locally sourced, globally scalable innovation

Nix the New Year’s innovation resolution — mini sprints get more done at work

Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

Report: 2018 was the biggest year for venture capital funding since 2000

Screen time may not be that bad for kids, British doctors say

Kraken cryptocurrency exchange says more disclosure requests are a burden

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