The UK parliament has provided another telling glimpse behind the curtain of Facebook’s unregulated ad platform by publishing data on scores of pro-Brexit adverts which it distributed to UK voters during the 2016 referendum on European Union membership. The ads were run on behalf of several vote leave campaigns who paid a third company to…
Forget about tweeting: some IoT companies could benefit from chirping instead. Malek Murison catches up with an intriguing startup, Chirp, and finds out why sound could be the safest and most efficient data-transfer medium in some situations. James Nesfield is CTO of data-over-sound startup, Chirp. He believes that transmitting data using sound waves, at both audible…
Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other material developments”, the…
On the back of last night’s unveiling of its enterprise Cloud Services Platform, Google has just announced two new products aimed at helping customers develop and deploy intelligent connected devices at scale. Edge TPU is a new IoT-focused chip for the edge environment, and Cloud IoT Edge is a software stack that extends Google Cloud’s AI…
Google loves to talk about how it has seven products with more than a billion users. Those are its flagship search service, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Android and the Google Play Store. Indeed, Android actually has more than 2 billion users now. Later this week, we will be able to add an eighth service…
Picture three American muscle cars parked in the enterprise driveway. One, the largest vehicle, carries the badge ‘AWS’, the second ‘Microsoft Azure’, and the third ‘Google’. But closer inspection of the third car reveals a shiny new badge that says ‘Google Cloud Services Platform’. These are the three leading options for organisations that want to…
SpotAngels, an app that uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find parking and avoid tickets, has raised $2.3 million from a group of investors that includes Google Maps co-founder Lars Rasmussen. Luc Vincent, the former head of Google Street View and vice president of engineering at Lyft, as well as Y Combinator, Streamlined Ventures and Via ID…
Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies – despite evidence to the contrary, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. The consultancy has identified a huge gap between the many companies that are exploring digital manufacturing strategies – via technologies such as automation, robotics, AI, and the Internet…
Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed as…
Internet of Business says The UK government has announced plans to make full-fibre broadband mandatory for all new-build homes, along with a new commitment to connect rural areas as part of a new national telecoms strategy. The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR), which is part of the government’s revamped Industrial Strategy, sets out the changes that…
