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Google brings its Lens AI recognition service into image searches
Google LLC wants to make image search results more useful through a newly launched integration with Lens, its artificial intelligence-powered image recognition service. The company has been steadily adding new ways for consumers to interact with Lens since the service’s release in October 2017. Google initially offered the technology as an exclusive feature for its ...
AWS announces plans for first cloud data centers in Africa
Amazon Web Services Inc. is extending its global data center network to Africa. The cloud giant today announced plans to open an AWS region in Cape Town, South Africa, by mid-2020 that will enable regional customers to run their workloads locally for the first time. In AWS parlance, a region is a set of data centers locations, ...
Italy’s antitrust watchdog fines Apple and Samsung for slowing users’ phones
Italy’s antitrust watchdog today fined Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. over allegations that they used software updates to slow down handsets, thereby potentially pushing some consumers to buy new models. The issue of planned obsolescence in the mobile industry entered the spotlight last year when Apple admitted to throttling older iPhones. The company said ...
Samsung, Uber co-founder back $8M round into enterprise AR startup Spatial
Augmented reality startup Spatial Inc. exited stealth mode today with $8 million in fresh funding to bring immersive experiences into the enterprise collaboration market. The New York-based startup is backed by an impressive roster of investors. The round saw the participation of Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Garrett Camp, Zynga Inc. founder Mark Pincus, Samsung Electronics ...
Lyft acquires AR startup Blue Vision to boost self-driving car plans
Lyft Inc. today announced that it has acquired a young augmented reality startup called Blue Vision Ltd. to boost its autonomous driving roadmap. The deal is valued at $72 million and allocates up to $30 million in additional compensation if certain performance goals are met, according to TechCrunch. For reference, Blue Vision exited stealth mode a mere ...
SAP debuts new enterprise AI tools for automating customer support and more
SAP SE is injecting more artificial intelligence into its portfolio. At an event in Barcelona today, the company unveiled a collection of tools aimed at opening up new ways for enterprise customers to harness AI. The additions range from point solutions focused on highly specific tasks to software intended to automate entire workflows. The most expansive of the ...
Oracle to acquire Goldman Sachs-backed sales intelligence startup DataFox
Oracle Corp. late Monday announced plans to acquire DataFox Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that provides sales intelligence for business-to-business companies. DataFox hit the scene in 2013 and has since built up a sizable customer roster spanning multiple segments. MongoDB Inc., Bain & Co., Twilio Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among the organizations that ...
Sisense launches Hunch, an AI engine for bringing complex analytics to the edge
Sisense Inc. believes there’s a better way to process information at the edge. The DFJ-backed analytics startup today unveiled Hunch, an artificial intelligence engine that it claims can condense large datasets into a size manageable even for connected devices. The software does so by creating a neural network that acts as a stand-in, taking up only megabytes ...
Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe exits Facebook in latest high-profile departure
Continuing a string of high-profile departures from Facebook Inc., Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe today announced that he’s leaving the social network to “recharge, reflect and be creative.” Iribe (pictured) served as the chief executive officer of Oculus prior to its $3 billion acquisition by the company in 2014. The entrepreneur, who had earlier started two ...
With Swift alliance, Microsoft puts key piece of global banking system on Azure
Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with Swift SCRL to bring the organization’s financial communications network to Azure. The Swift system is a core pillar of global commerce that’s used by over 11,000 financial institutions, as well as major corporations, to exchange data about transactions between their accounts. It helps process most of the world’s international ...
