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Apple Inc. acquired artificial intelligence startup Turi Inc. for about $200 million, according to people familiar with the situation, in the latest deal by the … Continue reading Apple Said to Buy AI Startup Turi for About $200 Million
Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has been working on ways to understand the data outside of the context of a computer. Today, the company announced an initiative called Business Intelligence Virtually Everywhere. That could involve asking questions to a voice-driven system like the Amazon Echo or… Read More Continue reading Sisense-Amazon Echo integration lets you ask Alexa questions about your business data
A few years ago, Microsoft launched Bing Predicts, a project that aims to correctly predict sporting events and elections by combining lots of data with machine learning algorithms. Until now, though, there wasn’t really a product that made Bing Predicts available to users. Today, however, the company launched its Cortana Intelligence with Bing Predicts service. Sadly, this… Read More Continue reading Microsoft now helps businesses use the data that powers Bing Predicts
While Hoffman hasn’t had a formal job at LinkedIn for 7 years, he still shows up four times a week — and wants to help Nadella tackle AI and quantum computing
A lot of times after leadership changes or acquisitions, executives have a foot out the door on the day of the announcement. But after Reid Hoffman stepped down from LinkedIn seven years ago as chief executive, he kept showing up, four days a week, and has continued to do that ever since. Now that LinkedIn is no longer a public company, but owned by Microsoft, he said he continues to plan to play a major role — and is very interested in helping Microsoft tackle challenges like artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
Continue reading LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman plans to take on larger role in Microsoft
A different approach compared to Skype and Yammer acquisitions
There’s a lot of questions about Microsoft’s $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn, questions both companies’ chief executive tried to head off in respective letters to their teams (and the public).
And in Satya Nadella’s letter, he made very clear that LinkedIn would still be LinkedIn, running fairly separately from the mothership:
Continue reading Nadella says LinkedIn will continue to run independently
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Microsoft Corp. is acquiring the professional social network LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion, one of the largest technology-industry deals on record, as the mak… Continue reading Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26 Billion in Biggest Deal Yet
Increasing EU pressure coupled with enormous breaches has some questioning if bigger data is better
With everything from garbage trucks to espresso machines eager to help … Continue reading Regulation and risk should temper big data’s explosive growth
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Salesforce.com Inc., which sells business productivity software, agreed to buy Demandware Inc., a provider of cloud-commerce services, in a transaction worth abo… Continue reading Salesforce to Buy Demandware in $2.8 Billion Transaction
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Amazon.com Inc. is testing a new service that will make it easier for businesses to run artificial intelligence software on computers rented from the company, pe… Continue reading Amazon to Battle Google With New Cloud Service for AI Software
The Information reports that AI-driven bots will be part of I/O conference
Google I/O, the company’s major developer conference, is kicking off in a few hours, and already… Continue reading Google I/O: Google reportedly preparing its own chatbot platform