ARM Holdings, the UK-based chipmaker owned by Japanese technology and investment conglomerate SoftBank, is on the cusp of buying US data analytics start-up Treasure Data for around $600 million. Bloomberg cited unnamed sources who said that ARM would be looking to boost its IoT ambitions with the acquisition of the seven-year old, Mountain View CA-based…
Settlement services specialists CLS has partnered with IBM to begin work on LedgerConnect, a distributed ledger platform to be used by the financial services industry. The pair expect the platform’s clientele to include banks, fintech startups, and software vendors, all of which will be able to use it to deploy, share, and access services. LedgerConnect itself will be…
In an effort to combat the digital retail shadow cast by the likes of Amazon, UK high street store Marks & Spencer has teamed up with digital training organisation Decoded to create a data academy. Andrew Hobbs considers whether the program could give the retailer’s digital arm a vital injection. The 18 month in-work data…
For being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first trillion-dollar company week. Yet it’s tough to reconcile Apple earning $11 billion in profit per quarter with it still screwing us over on cords and keyboards. The “it just works”…
In an effort to combat the digital retail shadow cast by the likes of Amazon, UK high street store Marks & Spencer has teamed up with digital training organisation Decoded to create a data academy. Andrew Hobbs considers whether the program could give the retailer’s digital arm a vital injection. The 18 month in-work data…
Some people leave lights, music or the TV on when they’re away from home in an attempt to ward off burglars, but a new Alexa skill called “Away Mode” has a different idea. Instead of lights and noises, you can keep your home safe from unwanted visitors by playing lengthy audio tracks that sound like…
German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of the Chinese technology giant. The pair will jointly promote and develop IoT applications within the fields of smart life and industry, with the aim of providing a digital upgrade to businesses and cities in China. Infineon…
Foundry Group, the Boulder, Colo.-based venture firm co-founded 11 years ago by startup whisperer Brad Feld, has raised a $750 million seventh fund to target early-stage and growth-stage companies, as well as to invest in other venture funds. It sounds like — and is — a lot of money, though the firm notes that it encompasses all of its…
A machine learning-driven analysis platform has examined 100 million cloud and AI-related intellectual property rights, and discovered that Chinese companies filed eight times as many relevant patents as their American counterparts in the past year. The report was carried out by intellectual property analytics provider Cipher, using their AI-driven patent intelligence platform. The results highlight…
Early in 2017, Google added a feature to Google Maps that lets you opt to share your location in (near) real time with your close friends and family. Now they’re fleshing out that info with another important little detail: your phone’s remaining battery charge. It looks like this: Wondering why anyone might care about the…
