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Telegram raises $850M more in ICO as messaging service suffers major downtime

By Duncan Riley Mar 29, 2018

Encrypted-messaging startup Telegram Messenger LLC has raised an additional $850 million in its initial coin offering even as the service suffered serious downtime today. The figure, reported in a filing today with the U.S. Securities…

Apps

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users…

Cloud

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

By Paul Gillin Mar 29, 2018

Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for…

Big Data

Whether or not business believes in weather, it believes in business, says IBM

By R. Danes Mar 29, 2018

If a business thinks the weather isn’t its business, it needs to think again. Practically all companies stand to gain or lose from incorporating weather data into their decision making, according to Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek (pictured,…

Cloud

Cloud ascendant: Microsoft launches major reorg as Windows head departs

By Maria Deutscher Mar 29, 2018

If Microsoft Corp.’s employees didn’t already realize cloud computing and artificial intelligence will drive their company’s future much more than its venerable Windows software, they sure know it now. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya…

Emerging Tech

Is Facebook a victim of its own bad karma? This company wants to return data to the individual

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Mar 29, 2018

Facebook may be scrambling to reassure its two billion users that their data privacy is being respected, but no one can deny that data willingly and openly shared is being appropriated for proprietary profit by the big…

Emerging Tech

Google’s DeepMind opens new AI lab in Paris

By Eric David Mar 29, 2018

DeepMind Technologies Inc., the machine learning company owned by Alphabet Inc., announced today that it’s opening a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris. The new lab will be headed by Remi Munos (pictured), a…

Cloud

Security, 5G help drive Nuage Networks’ software-defined WAN strategy

By Mark Albertson Mar 29, 2018

The software-defined wide area network represents a technology solution that is quietly working its way into the enterprise picture. Once viewed as a valuable connectivity solution for organizations with multiple branches, SD-WAN is gaining…

Infra

Communications market consolidates: Plantronics agrees to buy Polycom for $2B

By Maria Deutscher Mar 29, 2018

Although cloud services such as Slack Inc.’s have come to dominate the conversation around business communications, they constitute only one element of an expansive market. Companies also spend billions of dollars every year on…

Emerging Tech

Blockchain security cement still wet — can this startup set it?

By R. Danes Mar 29, 2018

The cryptocurrency token craze is tumbling ahead at a pace that one might call, well, crazy. That’s because blockchain-ledger security is the foundation of token economics — and the cement is still wet, according…

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Telegram raises $850M more in ICO as messaging service suffers major downtime

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

Cloud ascendant: Microsoft launches major reorg as Windows head departs

Is Facebook a victim of its own bad karma? This company wants to return data to the individual

Google’s DeepMind opens new AI lab in Paris

Security, 5G help drive Nuage Networks’ software-defined WAN strategy

Communications market consolidates: Plantronics agrees to buy Polycom for $2B

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