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Simplifing deployment of S/4Hana for the enterprise | #SAPPHIRENOW

By Marlene Den Bleyker May 19, 2016

As SAP Sapphire 2016 began its final day of the event, Professor Dr. Hasso Plattner, SAP SE cofounder and chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board, addressed conference attendees during a keynote to explain how…

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SAP wants to sell companies data about their customers

By Maria Deutscher May 19, 2016

In addition to selling companies software for analyzing their marketing data, SAP SA will now also provide the information itself through a new cloud offering that was revealed at its annual user conference today.…

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Alphabet has developed a custom chip for running machine learning algorithms

By Maria Deutscher May 19, 2016

Amazon Inc. is apparently not the only web giant that designs its own processors. At its annual developer summit this week, Alphabet Inc. revealed the existence of a homegrown server chip that can supposedly…

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IBM Cloud adds Nvidia Tesla M60s to speed up VDI workloads

By Maria Deutscher May 19, 2016

While it still has a long way to go before catching up with AWS and Azure on adoption, IBM Corp. is already pulling ahead it comes to the breadth of hardware options available in…

ThoughtSpot raises $50M to make BI as easy as using Google

By Maria Deutscher May 19, 2016

The idea of making complex analytics software more like the sleek consumer apps that workers use when they’re off the clock is nothing new in the vendor community. But no provider has taken the concept…

Now it really looks like the end of the line for Lumia phone

By James Farrell May 19, 2016

There has been speculation for some time now that Microsoft will put to bed the Lumia phone, and while it’s no secret that the company has been concentrating on other ambitions outside of phones,…

Gartner shows PC vendors how to boost their profits

By Mike Wheatley May 19, 2016

Everybody has known for ages that the PC market, while perhaps not quite doomed, is certainly going through a long period of decline which it’s unlikely to bounce back from. Tech industry analysts including…

Google’s video-calling app Duo takes on Apple’s FaceTime

By Collen Kriel May 19, 2016

Followed closely behind the launch of its new messaging service, Allo, Google Inc. has also announced Duo, a simple video-calling app, at its I/O developers conference. Unlike Facebook Messenger, Google decided not to combine…

Google Allo: Smart messaging for iOS, Android with AI-based chatbot, Smart Replies, more

By Collen Kriel May 19, 2016

At its I/O developers conference, Google Inc. released Allo, a strong competitor to Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and iMessage. Allo is a smart messaging app that comes with machine learning Smart Replies and its AI-based…

Smash hit: Google Photos passes 200m active users

By Duncan Riley May 19, 2016

Google’s smash hit photo app Google Photos is continuing its phenomenal run with the company announcing at its annual I/O conference Wednesday that the app now has over 200 million active users. On top…