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Snap to close down Snapcash as Snapchat continues to decline in popularity

By Duncan Riley Jul 22, 2018

Snap Inc.’s efforts to take a slice of the peer-to-peer mobile payments market has failed. The Snapchat app maker said Sunday that it will close down its little-used Snapcash feature Aug. 30. Announced back…

Emerging Tech

As regulatory thunderclouds gather, blockchain innovators press on with innovations

By Mark Albertson Jul 22, 2018

It’s no surprise that the blockchain community is moving rapidly with new innovations on an almost weekly basis. What’s surprising is that U.S. regulators have so far declined to step in, while other countries…

Cloud

Special report: What’s on the horizon for cloud computing

By Robert Hof Jul 22, 2018

Cloud computing is only a dozen years old, at least in its modern sense, but as software eats the world, there’s little doubt anymore that it’s the blazing center of information technology. Think about…

Cloud

Get ready for the next big disruption in the cloud: serverless computing

By Paul Gillin Jul 22, 2018

In the process of sending more than 1.5 billion messages a day and interacting with more than 1 billion consumers a month, Braze Inc. uses a lot of cloud infrastructure. But its business is…

Cloud

Three reasons Google lags in the cloud – and four ways it can step on the gas

By Mark Albertson Jul 22, 2018

More than 90 percent of the world’s searches are driven by Google LLC’s cloud infrastructure. The company rakes in $32 billion of search advertising revenue for the U.S. market, which is nearly $30 billion more…

Emerging Tech

Decoding the black box of AI: lessons in accountability

By Brittany Greaner Jul 20, 2018

It is one thing to imbue machines with intelligence. It’s another to keep these powerful computing systems honest. Mankind’s moment could be tainted if artificial intelligence systems aren’t kept accountable, and right now AI can feel like a…

Big Data

Data you can’t see can’t make bank. How do you scope it out?

By R. Danes Jul 20, 2018

Is data the new oil? Is data the most valuable asset a modern enterprise possesses? Is it the new currency? Most enterprises would answer, “Yes,” to all of the above. But do they actually…

Emerging Tech

Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research

By Kyt Dotson Jul 20, 2018

Space is huge: The Milky Way, our own galaxy, alone may have more than 200 billion stars and our home is only one of many. The process of imaging and categorizing stars and other…

Big Data

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter launch open-source initiative to free users’ data

By Maria Deutscher Jul 20, 2018

Four of the world’s largest tech companies are teaming up on a new open-source initiative designed to make the web more competitive. Google LLC, Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Twitter Inc. today formally launched the…

Big Data

CDOs step out of comfort zones as data monetization efforts increase

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Jul 20, 2018

Monetizing data assets is enticing for businesses sitting on lakes of information about consumer likes, dislikes, wants and needs. The spotlight is on the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to parse through it all,…

explore news

Snap to close down Snapcash as Snapchat continues to decline in popularity

As regulatory thunderclouds gather, blockchain innovators press on with innovations

Data you can’t see can’t make bank. How do you scope it out?

Blockchain company Aikon teams up with the Hubble Space Telescope for deep space research

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter launch open-source initiative to free users’ data

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