Inside PrimeNow warehouse, it's procrastination season
Amazon Prime Now will be packaging and filling 2-hour delivery orders up to 11:59 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
White House report: Policy makers need to prepare for economic disruption of AI
While AI will have welcome economic benefits, aggressive public policy is needed to make sure everyone benefits, says a new White House report on AI and the economy.
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Red Hat "Poised for success" despite stock setback
Despite seeing its share price drop following its Q3 earnings report, Red Hat's sales and channel investments mean the company is "poised for success," a Technology Business Research analyst says.
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Nokia sues Apple; Regtech hot; Facebook making you sad?
In today's roundup of technology news: Nokia sues Apple again; Regtech startups see more business; Facebook may be making you sad.
AT&T Call Protect app blocks robo calls on smartphones
AT&T says its new smartphone product Call Protect blocks some robocalls before they even reach a customer's phone.
Report: Deep learning market to grow rapidly
This market is expected to be worth USD 1,7 million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 65.3 percent between 2016 and 2022. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that attempts to model high level abstractions in data that is used in artificial intelligence programs.
Red Hat shares plunge after earnings report
Red Hat stock plunged 13 percent after its earnings report and news that its chief financial officer is leaving. Red Hat needed to crush analyst estimates of its third quarter 2017 earnings, and while posting respectable numbers, did not do it.
Survey says: Lack of IT incident automation expensive
Although most companies have automated IT service management systems, a mere 11 percent in an Everbridge survey of IT professionals have automated the process for responding to IT outages and incidents, resulting in expensive downtime.
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PEW survey: eight in ten Americans shop online
Americans have embraced online shopping. About eight in ten have made an online purchase, 51 percent bought something using a cell phone, and 15 percent made purchases from a social media site link, says a Pew Reseach Center survey.
More execs depart Twitter, first delivery by drone, NASA direction
In today's roundup of technology news: More Twitter execs depart; Trump NASA tradition team adding members favoring public/private partnerships; first company to make a drone delivery isn't Amazon.
Wearables market grows as smartwatches fade
Smartwatch sales dropped this quarter, but IDC reports that the overall wearables market grew 3.1 percent year over year in Q3, according to data from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker.
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CBInisights:Tech IPO pipeline larger in 2017
Despite a slowing down in startup funding overall, high momentum companies are able to raise money in the private markets there are more companies poised for IPOs next year than 2016, according to the latest CB Insights Tech IPO pipeline for 2017.
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Greensboro firm nabs $946K for peanut allergy tech
Greensboro-based Alrgn, which has developed tech to remove allergens from peanuts, has raised an equity round.
Angry IBMers protest CEO's outreach to Trump, want benefits back
IBM chair and CEO Ginni Rometty quickly offered an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump shortly after his upset victory. Now, some IBMers have signed a petition protesting the Rometty letter and threaten "to refuse participation in any U.S. government contracts that violate constitutionally protected civil liberties." They also seek return of some lost benefits, issues that predate the election.
Valencell teams with STMicroelectronics on wearabales development kit
Valencell, which sells performance biometric data sensor technology, and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader, have launched a new, highly accurate and scalable development kit for biometric wearables.
Texas-based Fluor Corp. will build Clayton Novo Nordisk plant
Texas-based Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and construction management contract by Novo Nordisk for its new $2 billion diabetes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient manufacturing facility in Clayton, North Carolina.
Survey: Women, minority decision makers very rare in VC industry
Despite all the calls in recent years for the tech industry to increase its diversity, a major player is lagging badly in representation by women and minorities: The venture capital industry. So says a new survey from the National Venture Capital Association.
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