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Carpooling startup Via nabs funding from Daimler for European push

By Maria Deutscher Sep 4, 2017

The competition in the ride-hailing market continues to intensify. Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz AG, today inked a partnership with Via Transportation Inc. to launch a joint carpooling service in Europe. The…

Emerging Tech

China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Regulators in China have banned all initial public coin offerings pending a review and the possible introduction of regulations to control the booming market. News that China was considering banning ICOs emerged last week…

Infra

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

The personal details of some 6 million Instagram users are being offered for sale online as employees of the app maker have been accused of selling account verification. Revelations that user details from Instagram had been hacked…

Emerging Tech

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has revealed a new chipset and reference design that moves the mobile chip giant into self-driving cars. The chipset, called the 9150 C-V2X (short for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything), facilitates vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Along with Qualcomm‘s C-V2X Reference Design,…

Emerging Tech

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2017

Facial recognition may be the future of digital payments. A trial being run by Ant Financial Services Group, the financial payments arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and Yum China will allow customers to use…

Cloud

Thanks to LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft now leads enterprise software as a service

By Mike Wheatley Sep 3, 2017

Microsoft Corp. has retained its clear lead in the enterprise software as a service market, its business bolstered by the acquisition of the networking site LinkedIn Corp. in late 2016. Microsoft swooped to buy…

Cloud

Wikibon’s VMworld 2017 trip report: What a difference two years makes

By Peter Burris Sep 2, 2017

As we have every year since 2010, Wikibon and SiliconANGLE Media’s video unit theCUBE descended on VMworld in force. After a few days of an analyst summit, 50 briefings, and close to 130 interviews…

Infra

Cybersecurity and compliance merge at company board level

By Nelson Williams Sep 1, 2017

In the real world, security is more than just locks and doors. It’s an active process, one that requires people as much as technology. Computer security is no different, and for a company to…

Big Data

AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’

By Paul Gillin Sep 1, 2017

Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play the…

Emerging Tech

As IT becomes more consumerized, user experience models must keep up

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Sep 1, 2017

As information technology becomes more consumerized, clients expect new technology to be like the apps on their mobile devices: It must work all the time, be fun, mobile, bite-sized, require no training, upgrade automatically…

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China bans all initial coin offerings pending broad review

Details from 6M Instagram accounts for sale online as employees accused of corruption

Qualcomm gets on the road with a new chipset to help cars communicate with each other

Facial recognition system dubbed ‘Smile to Pay’ goes into testing in China

Thanks to LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft now leads enterprise software as a service

Cybersecurity and compliance merge at company board level

AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’

As IT becomes more consumerized, user experience models must keep up

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