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Alibaba looks to arm hotels, cities with its AI technology

Chinese internet giant is touting the use of artificial intelligence technology to arm drivers with real-time data on road conditions as well as robots in the hospitality sector, ...
Microsoft is adding 'commercial' LinkedIn revenues to its 'Commercial Cloud' tally

Microsoft's self-defined 'commercial cloud' bucket just got bigger, with the inclusion of a significant portion of LinkedIn revenues added to the metric. ...
Adobe buys Marketo for $4.75 billion

The deal is Adobe's largest ever and puts the company in more direct competition with Oracle and Salesforce.

Vonage buys contact center software firm NewVoiceMedia

Vonage sees the acquisition as a way to forge stronger integrations and go-to-market relationships with CRM providers, namely Salesforce.
Medical marijuana: How IT can spark the budding cannabis industry

This fast-growing but difficult-to-navigate vertical needs IT providers. But how many will cater to a $20 billion industry that the feds consider illegal? ...
Clean Energy Regulator signs up for Fujitsu's protected cloud

The Australian regulator becomes the third federal government agency to sign up to the SaaS solution hosted on the Vault Protected Cloud.

Google Cloud rolls out security feature for container images

The new Container Registry vulnerability scanning feature should bring more stability to the early stages of the CI/CD process, Google says.
Alibaba to launch own AI chip next year

Chinese internet giant sets up a semiconductor company and unveils plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor, as it looks to boost support for its cloud and Internet ...
IBM launches tools to detect AI fairness, bias and open sources some code

Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM.

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