Tag: mobile
Why Microsoft is making a a big bet on bots
Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO has been marked by the knowledge that the company has to find a future beyond Windows. "Our industry...
IoT Trends
Our team has been active as investors in the Internet of Things and hardware space over the past two years. We have read pitches from hundreds of companies,...
How Amazon’s Alexa is bringing intelligent assistance into the mainstream
To paraphrase William Gibson, “The future is already here and, thanks to intelligent assistants (IA), it is more evenly distributed than ever before.”
Based on...
VC veteran George Ugras to head IBM Ventures
George Ugras has joined IBM as managing director of IBM Ventures. That’s a big job, considering how much money IBM throws into its strategic...
Preparing your website for Google’s algorithm updates
During the past few years, Google released major updates to its search engine algorithm, including the "Panda," "Penguin," "Pigeon," "Payday," "Pirate," and "Mobile Friendly"...
Verdigris takes $9M to power its AI energy consumption analytics b2b...
We hear a lot about the Internet of Things on the consumer side. The oft trotted out example of the ‘smart’ refrigerator that tells consumers when...
10 key announcements from Google’s Cloud Conference
In San Francisco this week at Pier 48, overlooking the Giants' AT&T Ballpark, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) executives are holding a user conference to...
Meet Tay, Microsoft’s new AI chat bot
Attention all 18- to 24-year-olds in the U.S.: Tay is online now, and she wants to chat with you.
That, at least, is according to...
What 17 Prominent Roboticists Think Google Should Do With Its Robots
These days, whenever a group of roboticists gets together to talk shop, the subject almost inevitably turns to Google and its secretive robotics division.What...
Google’s AI Now Can Answer Your Emails
THE CAPABILITIES OF Google’s artificial intelligence are staggering. The phantoms within Google Photos can organize your pictures, the wizards inside Google Docs let you type and edit using spoken...