18 New Organizations Join the Linux Foundation as Silver Members

8 years ago0612 18 new organizations have joined the Linux Foundation as Silver members, the foundation announced today. The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that enables mass innovation through open source. Its members help support the development of the "greatest shared technology resources in history," while accelerating their own...

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Tencent's Lau Woos Marketers With Numbers and 'Technology With Warmth'

8 years ago0363 While Publicis Groupe and WPP talked about reducing their presence at the Cannes Lions festival, and Facebook and Google seemed less omnipresent this year, Tencent was all in at Cannes as China's internet giant extends its relationships with Western marketers. SY Lau, who stepped up in March to a new role as chairman of Tencent...

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Facebook Says Internet Drone Lands Successfully On Second Test

8 years ago0309 Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had completed a second test of an unmanned aircraft designed to some day beam internet access to remote parts of the planet, and unlike in the first test, the drone did not crash. Facebook plans to develop a fleet of drones powered by sunlight that will fly for months at a time, communicating with each...

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Paveai Unveils AI-Powered Platform to Turn Google Analytics Into Actions

8 years ago0340 Startup says this is the first Google Analytics tool that turns the data into news you can use about increasing leads or revenue. Google Analytics is a treasure trove of data, but how should you use it? Today, startup PaveAI is releasing a new AI-powered platform that it says is the first to turn Google Analytics data into news you...

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Google Shows Off Its VR Advertising Concept

8 years ago0334 With the VR ad format still very much in the experimental phase, Google is looking to work with developers on testing it. Google presented an early look Wednesday at how it’s starting to think about ads for virtual reality applications. A team working in Google’s Area 120 ideas incubator has come up with a concept for a native...

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Uber Says Never Told Self-Driving Car Executive To Take Waymo Files

8 years ago0335 Uber Technologies said it never told a self-driving car executive to download files from his former employer, Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo unit, according to a court filing in a contentious trade secret lawsuit. Alphabet's Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential...

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Apple's iPhone Turns 10, Bumpy Start Forgotten

8 years ago0307 Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone turns 10 this week, evoking memories of a rocky start for the device that ended up doing most to start the smartphone revolution and stirring interest in where it will go from here. Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones since June 29, 2007, but the first iPhone, which launched without an App Store and...

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Singular and Apsalar Merge to Create Unified Marketing Analytics Platform

8 years ago0353 Mobile marketing analytics firm Singular is merging with mobile app attribution and audience management firm Apsalar today so the two companies can offer a combined product line for businesses. The combined enterprise will be known as Singular and will offer an important third-party source of mobile user data on the individual level,...

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Unata Helps Regional Grocers Launch New 'Unified Experience' to Defend Against Amazon-Whole Foods Deal

8 years ago0335 Four regional grocery retailers will soon launch a new "Unified Experience" in response to Amazon's bid to acquire Whole Foods. The giant online retailer's recent bid is its biggest move yet into the grocery business, enabling an omni-commerce strategy by expanding into brick and mortar. Unata, the leader in 1-to-1 digital solutions for...

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Coker: Can Human Resources Work Be Automated?

8 years ago0434 Q. I’ve read and heard a lot about computer artificial intelligence. Can computers really do human resources functions like recruiting, retention and worker evaluations? A. There’s a lot of hype in the press about artificial intelligence. Computers are lightning fast and super for some things. However, scientists still don’t...

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Fiverr Launches Pro Freelancer Service And Acquires Videographer Marketplace Veed.Me

8 years ago0493 Freelancer services marketplace Fiverr has announced a new high-end offering that promises the very best professional talent for the job at hand. Founded out of Israel in 2010, Fiverr’s platform lets people buy and sell many different types of services, from graphic design to programming, video-making, and more. The company has...

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JPMorgan Chase to Centralize Energy Controls for 4,500 Branches

8 years ago0486 JPMorgan Chase & Co is shifting control of heating, air-conditioning and lighting in 4,500 of its branches to an operations center hosted in the internet cloud. Sol Gindi, chief administrative officer for JPMorgan's consumer bank, said the company is making the change so that bank branch managers and loan officers can do their...

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