Tag: acquisition
Microsoft Snaps Up Wand Labs For Intelligent Communication Tech
Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of messaging app company Wand Labs. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Wand Labs is focused on developing...
AI in Retail: What’s the Plan?
Let’s check in with who’s on the AI (artificial intelligence) train.
Apple kicked things off this year, announcing back in January that it had purchased...
Will.i.am’s Back With a New AI That Lives on Your Wrist—Or...
WILL.I.AM SOUNDS congested and subdued, his batteries running low after a high-octane appearance onThe Ellen Show earlier that day. He’s longing for 2025, when an artificial intelligence will...
The Weather Company Brings Together Forecasting And IoT
The Weather Company and its project to modernize its data collection, storage, and forecasting platform won recognition in last year's Elite 100, coming in...
Facebook’s move into the enterprise via bots
The battle for our attention has once again shifted to a new technological plane within the mobile space. The industry now is starting to...
26-year-old hacker gets $3M for self-driving car startup
A 26-year-old hacker just banked millions to take on Elon Musk
George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, an autonomous driving startup that's roughly six...
Salesforce buys AI specialist MetaMind to avoid being ‘flanked’
Salesforce.com's automation efforts got a boost Monday with the news it has acquired AI startup MetaMind.
Salesforce will integrate MetaMind's technology into its own services...
Here’s why deep learning will be huge and who will dominate...
Artificial intelligence* is developing much faster than we thought. Just last month, Google’s DeepMind AI beat Lee Sedol, a legendary Go player, at his own...
Why AlphaGo Is Not AI
What is AI and what is not AI is, to some extent, a matter of definition. There is no denying that AlphaGo, the Go-playing...
HPE Haven OnDemand: Machine learning for enterprise app makers
The next step in Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's plans to become a cloud company looks a lot like a step taken by many others in the...