Facebook has gone ahead and purchased Charles Jolley’s conversational AI startup Ozlo. Jolley, formerly Head of Platform for Android at Facebook, will not be returning to the company. The Ozlo team is
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Google Calendar now plays nicer with Microsoft Exchange
Google today announced a small but important update to how Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange can work together going forward. It’s not unusual for a company to still use both Google’s
How a Met Office is doing a torrent of data
Complex calculations But what if a calculation is quite formidable or processor-intensive? To tackle that problem, a lab is contracting another “lazy” open source technology, Dask – a third-party together
Gas pump card skimmer now phones home
In an unsurprising move by credit card thieves, police have found a new credit card skimmer that sends stolen data via SMS. By tearing apart cheap phones, crooks are able
It looks like Amazon would be losing a lot of money if not for AWS
Amazon reported its second-quarter earnings today, and it was a bit of a whiff — and a bummer for Jeff Bezos, who is now no longer the solar system’s richest
Intel beats earnings expectations as it manages to maintain growth in its Data Center Group
Intel declared $14.8 billion in revenue this afternoon and earnings per share of 72 cents. This represents a solid beat as analysts had expected revenues of $14.41 billion and EPS
Microsoft updates PowerApps and Flow with a focus on deeper integrations and advanced workflows
Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While these are obviously two
Mitel to buy ShoreTel for $430 million to create unified communications powerhouse
Sometimes combining two companies that compete in the same market provides a quick way to leapfrog your market share. That was likely the thinking behind Mitel’s decision to buy ShoreTel
Peer5 raises $2.5M for its peer-to-peer approach to streaming video
Peer5, which helps publishers stream video to large audiences, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. I wrote about the startup earlier this year when it
Salesforce claims you can set up customer service in Service Cloud update in less than a day
Salesforce announced an update to its Service Cloud today, which the company says enables non-technical administrators to build a customer service organization with connected services in less than day. That’s a
Slack is raising a $250 million round at $5 billion valuation
Enterprise messaging service Slack is raising a $250 million round at a $5 billion valuation, TechCrunch has confirmed. We’re hearing that SoftBank, Accel Partners and other existing investors participated. The
OpenText acquires forensic security vendor Guidance Software for $240 million
OpenText, the content management company based in Waterloo, Ontario announced today that it was buying Guidance Software, a forensic security and eDiscovery vendor for $240 million. OpenText agreed to pay
Microsoft’s new Azure Container Instances make using containers fast and easy
Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them.
Microsoft’s new Azure Container Instances make using containers fast and easy
Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them.
Data management: What does a destiny hold?
Complex eventuality estimate (CEP) With a attainment of hybrid cloud storage, large information and unstructured information in information lakes, a need to relate and analyse information from mixed (and infrequently
