Google Cloud and Box have extended their strategic partnership focused on cloud content management, with the storage provider also proving another customer win for Google. The two companies are extending their alliance, based on improving the experience for users of G Suite with Box, which was first announced in December 2018. Since then, several new [...]
Since its founding, Apple has been a pioneer in democratizing powerful technology through products and services designed for everyone. From VoiceOver and Text to Speech to Voice Control, Switch Control, and even Siri, every product and service in the Apple ecosystem is designed with accessibility built in. “Accessible technology should be very clear,” says Dean Hudson, accessibility [...]
Only a few months ago, tech companies were competing tooth and nail with one another and against the growing gig economy to hire new workers. Today, the tables have very much started to turn. The IT job market has lost more than 80,000 jobs since the beginning of 2020, and many companies are instituting hiring freezes or even cutting their [...]
Over the last month since the tragic death of George Floyd we have seen riots across the world that have led many people to question their understanding of systemic racism. Many businesses including Netflix and Nike have committed to donating significant funds to increase equality after acknowledging they could do more. It is not clear [...]
Oracle’s stock (NYSE: ORCL) is up by more than 40% since December 2016. In comparison, close rival SAP’s stock (NYSE: SAP) has grown at a higher rate of over 60% during the same period. This, despite the fact that Oracle has a larger revenue base and a more profitable business than SAP. We believe that the stock price movement makes [...]
Digital transformation is changing the way most large businesses operate. General Electric ((GE) -Get Report), with its reach into the industrial world, seemed like logical facilitator. Then reality caught up. That’s the gist of a big Wall Street Journal story out today. It chronicles the rise and fall of GE Digital, a division that was supposed to turn the industrial conglomerate [...]
Google Cloud and Box have announced a strategic partnership in order to help customers transform the way they work online. Under the strategic partnership, Box will leverage the cloud computing service's advanced capabilities to enhance the scale, performance and intelligence of its cloud content management platform globally. At the same time, both companies will also [...]
Ford made a $1 billion investment in Argo.AI three years ago. Ford has also partnered with Volkswagen to jointly develop the Argo.AI platform. Zachary Shahan just wrote a story about Ford, Volkswagen, and Argo.AI a few days ago, in which he pondered whether the three companies are poised to become one of the dominant forces in self-driving [...]
Google Cloud today announced the launch of Filestore High Scale, a new storage option — and tier of Google’s existing Filestore service — for workloads that can benefit from access to a distributed high-performance storage option. With Filestore High Scale, which is based on technology Google acquired when it bought Elastifile in 2019, users can deploy shared [...]
Across the US, people are marching to protest the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black people who have been killed by police. In response, tech companies have jumped on board, crafting blog posts and tweets to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But while their messages say they stand against [...]
