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Salesforce snaps up analytics startup BeyondCore
Salesforce.com has acquired business intelligence and analytics startup BeyondCore, as part of its strategy to make its software more intelligent.
“I am thrilled [to] announce @Salesforce has acquired @beyondcoreinc to enhance the AI capabilities of Analytics Cloud,” wrote Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in a tweet on Monday.
The financial terms of the deal were not not disclosed.
BeyondCore in San Mateo, California, had already started integrating its product with the Salesforce platform. At the Gartner BI Summit earlier this year, the company showed off this integration, which would be part of its upcoming BeyondCore 7 release, wrote CEO Arijit Sengupta in a blog post.
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10 acquisitions driving Oracle’s cloud strategy
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Since 2010, Oracle has been steadily acquiring cloud software companies, particularly SaaS providers that can help the business software maker grow its market share for software rented over the internet. The deals, including last month’s $ 9.3 billion blockbuster bid for NetSuite, are crucial for the company’s ability to keep pace with challengers such as SAP, Salesforce.com and Microsoft, all of which are forging their own aggressive strategies in the cloud.
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5 people Tim Cook calls for advice on running the biggest company in the world
It’s only fitting that the leader of the biggest company in the world has a pretty impressive list of friends.
In an extended interview with the Washington Post, Apple’s top executive offered new insight into how he’s handled some of the bigger decisions he’s made in his five years as CEO. Among the revelations: a casual list of some of the biggest names in business and politics who he has called upon for advice in years past.
“I think it’s incumbent on a CEO to not just listen to points of view but to actually solicit them,” Tim Cook said in the interview. “Because I think, if not, you quickly become insular. And you’re sort of living in the echo chamber.” Read more…
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Great Websites Pass the 3-Second Rule, More News
When Deb Lavoy wants to quickly understand a website’s performance, she uses the magical three second test. Three things, three seconds. “An inhale and an exhale. That’s all you get from a website visitor.
HPE Doubles-Down on HPC With SGI Acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired another high performance computing company with a long history in Silicon Valley — SGI — in a deal worth $ 275 million. Here’s what the acquisition indicates about HPE’s strategy going forward.
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Online gaming may boost school scores. Social media? Not so much.
If you or your kids are avid gamers, here’s some good news: All that strategising may have a beneficial impact on school results. Whether regular Facebook use is a drag on one’s English test scores — that’s another question.
A study conducted by Alberto Posso, a professor at Australia’s RMIT University, found that teenagers who played online video games regularly were often able to improve their school scores.
Students who were daily social media users, however, tended to under perform in maths, reading and science. “The results suggest that a student who uses online social networks on a daily basis will also obtain a grade in math that is 20 points lower than a student who never uses this type of social media,” Posso said in the report. Read more…
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Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. Earnings: A Classic "Beat and Raise" Report
The mobile cloud computing and device activation specialist exceeded the high end of its own revenue and earnings guidance in the second quarter.
Boom Learning Keeps Teachers Sharing Resources When Schools Say Print…
Teachers like sharing resources, but schools want teachers to print and copy less and use devices more. New this fall, Boom Learning enables teachers to make, share, and sell interactive teaching…
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How Brands Are Learning To Engage The Silicon Valley Latino Ecosystem
Prior to the last presidential election cycle, I had the opportunity to assist a White House sponsored initiative to engage and empower Latino leaders nationwide. The project took the White House on the road to more than a dozen different cities to provided insight and perspectives on opportunities for Latino leadership. As I learned back then, the Silicon Valley perspective is special. It’s one, in fact, that might help many organizations — not just government players — to rethink their Latino engagement strategy.
Hero Managed IT Helps Businesses Find Security in the Cloud
Some of the company’s most popular network solutions involve computer repair, cloud computing, cloud service management, VoIP services, data …
This PC monitor hack can manipulate pixels for malicious effect
Don’t believe everything you see. It turns out even your computer monitor can be hacked.
On Friday, researchers at DEF CON presented a way to manipulate the tiny pixels found on a computer display.
Ang Cui and Jatin Kataria of Red Balloon Security were curious how Dell monitors worked and ended up reverse-engineering one.
They picked apart a Dell U2410 monitor and found that the display controller inside can be used to change and log the pixels across the screen.
During their DEF CON presentation, they showed how the hacked monitor could seemingly alter the details on a web page. In one example, they changed a PayPal’s account balance from $ 0 to $ 1 million, when in reality the pixels on the monitor had simply been reconfigured.
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How illogical: New Skype bot lets you chat with Spock
Microsoft has made no secret of its grand plans for chat bots, and this week it rolled out five new ones for Skype. Surely the most fun is “Spock,” a bot that promises to help you “learn the ways of Vulcan logic.”
Back in April, Microsoft debuted a preview of Skype bots, the artificial intelligence-based helpers it hopes will make it easier for users to get things done. Today, more than 30,000 developers are building bots for Skype, it says.
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How illogical: New Skype bot lets you chat with Spock
Microsoft has made no secret of its grand plans for chat bots, and this week it rolled out five new ones for Skype. Surely the most fun is “Spock,” a bot that promises to help you “learn the ways of Vulcan logic.”
Back in April, Microsoft debuted a preview of Skype bots, the artificial intelligence-based helpers it hopes will make it easier for users to get things done. Today, more than 30,000 developers are building bots for Skype, it says.
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Rackspace nears buyout; Going private could boost cloud managed services effort
According to the Wall Street Journal, Rackspace is nearing a buyout roughly two years after the cloud computing company first said it would pursue …
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Infosys invests $4 million in Israeli firm Cloudyn
BENGALURU: India’s second largest software exporter Infosys has backed an Israel-based cloud computing startup called Cloudyn Ltd and picked up …
This site lists all the Siri commands you’ll ever need
If you rock an iPhone and don’t yet use Siri, you’re missing out: the voice-activated assistant can do a LOT of things for you without the hassle of tapping and swiping through a ton of menus. It’s also wicked cool to have your phone respond to the sound of your voice. Most people know about common tasks that Siri can help out with, such as calling a contact or reading out your last text message. But did you know that it can also show you the traffic near your destination, adjust screen brightness and even dim the lights in your…
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HPE Cloud Head Leaves as Vendor Creates New Cloud Unit
HPE’s Helion cloud efforts will now be housed in the new Software-Defined and Cloud Group, and replacing Bill Hilf with Mark Interrante.
Shortcomings in TRAI’s cloud computing consultation paper
Trai’s consultation paper on cloud computing presents valuable information gleaned from industry analysis and observation of other government …
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Unisys Study Shows U.S. CIOs Leading the Charge to the Cloud
“This study shows that far-sighted CIOs have a clear view of the competitive, operational and economic benefits of cloud computing, and are taking …
Levitating Apple Watch charger turns smartwatch into futuristic art
Whether you love or hate the Apple Watch, charging it is often one of the first encounters many users have with the magic of wireless charging.
Now that magic has been taken to the next level with a new kind of Apple Watch charger that mixes wireless charging with magnetic levitation.
The Lift is a wireless charger designed to work with the Apple Watch and the Pebble smartwatches, offering a cool way to recharge your wearable while enjoying what looks like a piece of museum art from the future.
Using magnetic levitation, a method that has become common for the latest, high-end Bluetooth speakers, the charging unit that holds your Apple Watch hovers over the charging base while delivering a charge to your device. Read more…
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A look at Oracle’s 10 biggest acquisitions
Oracle is back at it again today, announcing one of the largest acquisitions in company history with the purchase of enterprise resource planning (ERP) company NetSuite for $ 9.3 billion.
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Larry Ellison and crew are no strangers to acquisitions. The company has made many over the past few decades. For Ellison though, cloud acquisitions are particularly noteworthy, given that not too long ago he derided the market as a fad.
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Four New Luggage Concepts For The Tech-Savvy Traveler
From wired to just plain weird, let?s take a look at luggage concepts that can change your carry-on ? for better or worse.
SAP Is Again a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
Cloud computing is a rapidly growing multibillion dollar space with huge potential, which has prompted software companies like Oracle (ORCL), …
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IDG Contributor Network: Kubernetes and OpenStack to collide in Silicon Valley
Mirantis, the pure play OpenStack company, is one of the sponsors of OpenStack Days – Silicon Valley. I caught up with Mirantis co-founder and CMO Boris Renski to learn more about the upcoming event. Here is an edited version of that interview…
Can you tell us more about the event?
OpenStack – Silicon Valley is the event that we started three years ago. This is the third in the series. The OpenStack community in general, as you know, has a summit twice a year and then it has this concept of OpenStack Days, which are different regional events that are organized by various community members.
OpenStack – Silicon Valley has historically been the event that’s organized by the Silicon Valley community of OpenStack. It is essentially the largest community to date because the users from the early days of OpenStack are based in Silicon Valley. The NASA Research Center that started the Nova project is also based out of here. And a lot of engineers are here. It’s probably the second biggest OpenStack event out there after the main OpenStack Summit.
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Jason Bourne: You Know His Name, But You Will Probably Forget It
Jason Bourne is at its best when its Jason Bourne isn’t in it
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Singapore unveils new guidelines for FSI outsourcing, cloud
Singapore has introduced new guidelines for financial institutions that outsource risk management as well as deploy cloud computing services.
Article on Children’s Dental Health Concerns Highlights the Importance…
Commenting on a recent article, Dr. Farzad Feiz notes that prioritizing children’s oral health now can prevent dental complications in the future.
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Seven Questions To Ask Before Choosing Your Technology Stack
Before adding new technologies to your stack, investigate their long-term potential.