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Europe activates its GPS rival, Galileo

By Eric David Dec 15, 2016

As anyone who got caught up in the Pokemon Go craze this summer can tell you, the Global Positioning Satellite system is still not as accurate as we would like. That’s about to change in…

Emerging Tech

HyperScience raises $18M for its paperwork-beating AI

By Maria Deutscher Dec 15, 2016

Handling paperwork isn’t exactly the most complicated aspect of a company’s operations, but it consumes a lot of person-hours that could be spent on more productive activities. New York’s HyperScience Inc. believes that the…

Infra

Nokia buys analytics startup Deepfield to build self-optimizing networks

By Maria Deutscher Dec 15, 2016

Although it certainly doesn’t dominate the mobile phone market anymore, Nokia Corp. remains a leading player in the multibillion-dollar network equipment market. The company set out to improve its position even further today by…

Infra

25-year-old software firm you’ve never heard of stakes future on hyper-convergence – and Boston

By Paul Gillin Dec 15, 2016

Most information technology startups that come into the U.S. market head by default for Silicon Valley, so Comtrade Software turned some heads this fall when it chose to plant its flag in Boston. But to…

Big Data

Big Data software startup Databricks pockets $60 million in Series C funding

By Mike Wheatley Dec 15, 2016

Databricks Inc., the company that spearheads the development of the popular Big Data platform Apache Spark, has just snagged its largest funding round to date. The company has just announced its closed on a…

Apps

How to use Slack’s new video call feature

By Collen Kriel Dec 15, 2016

Slack Technologies Inc. introduced voice calls for its enterprise messaging app in March. Now the company has announced that users will be able to make one-on-one and group video calls in the app, a…

At Donald Trump’s meeting with top tech execs, a conciliatory tone

By James Farrell Dec 15, 2016

Despite widespread disdain among many technology executives for Donald Trump before he was elected president, their meeting Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York appeared to produce no fireworks. Indeed, by all reports, both…

Big Data

Crate.io unveils database for real-time machine data analysis

By Mike Wheatley Dec 15, 2016

CrateDB, an open-source distributed SQL database for real-time analysis of machine data that has already been downloaded more than a million times in the past two years has finally announced its finished 1.0 release.…

Open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar raises $3M seed round

By Duncan Riley Dec 15, 2016

OB1, the development company behind open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round backed by BlueYard Capital, Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Launched in April this year, OpenBazaar…

Apps

Get Cortana to schedule your meetings with Microsoft’s Calendar.help

By Collen Kriel Dec 14, 2016

Microsoft Corp. announced this week at its San Francisco artificial intelligence event a new incubation project code-named “Calendar.help.” Calendar.help gives Cortana, Microsoft’s personal digital assistant, the ability to schedule your meetings using AI, conversational…

explore news

Europe activates its GPS rival, Galileo

HyperScience raises $18M for its paperwork-beating AI

Nokia buys analytics startup Deepfield to build self-optimizing networks

25-year-old software firm you’ve never heard of stakes future on hyper-convergence – and Boston

Big Data software startup Databricks pockets $60 million in Series C funding

How to use Slack’s new video call feature

At Donald Trump’s meeting with top tech execs, a conciliatory tone

Crate.io unveils database for real-time machine data analysis

Open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar raises $3M seed round

Get Cortana to schedule your meetings with Microsoft’s Calendar.help

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