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IBM Plays with the AI Giants with New, Scalable, Distributed Deep Learning Software (Forbes)

Anyone who has been paying attention knows that deep learning has really taken off in the last several years. It’s powering hundreds of applications, in consumer as well as busin... More

Over 80 Percent of Millennials Want In-App, In-Store Payments (GeoMarketing)

Approximately 80 percent of Millennials are interested in taking checkout into their own hands with scan-and-go payments, scanning products in-store and then paying via an app, acc... More

Voice Assistants Poised to be the Next Tech Disruptor (CMO)

Voice assistant technology isn’t a new concept, but with advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, adoption has grown in recent years. In turn, competition in... More

Cloud-Based Martech: The Ultimate Enterprise Technology Infrastructure? (CMO)

Cloud-based marketing technology is no longer just for marketers. At the end of the day, these integrated digital suites—a.k.a. marketing hubs or marketing clouds—could prove u... More

Could Blockchain Improve Advertising Transparency? IBM’s Rangaiah Thinks So (Beet.TV)

Who would ever have thought that the world’s biggest festival for celebrating creativity in marketing would have ended up discussing artificial intelligence, blockchain and cogni... More

Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey: ‘We’re Doubling Down on Adtech’ (The Drum)

Twitter’s co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey said he plans to “double down” on adtech investment, saying the company has learned lessons from past mistakes that could... More

Apple’s HomeKit Was a Band With No Frontman – Then HomePod Took the Mic (Fast Company)

Consumers and accessories makers have been somewhat slow to adopt the platform known as HomeKit since its debut three years ago. There are several reasons for that, and one of them... More

We’ve Seen the Future of the Smart Home, and it is Bright (Twice)

New research paints a rosy picture for the road to the smart home. Home-automation products will add $1.8 billion of new CE sales through next year, according to The NPD Group, ... More

Oracle Taps Into AI Buzz to Calm Security Fears (Telecoms.com)

Oracle has announced a number of updates to its security portfolio focusing on leveraging the buzz surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence and contextual awareness te... More

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends: It’s Becoming More About Image, Voice, Location (Geo Marketing)

The importance of voice-activation, connected intelligence, visual search, and location targeting as pathways for organizing and using digital channels that Kleiner Perkins Caufiel... More

Saatchi LA Trained IBM Watson to Write Thousands of Ads for Toyota (Adweek)

The Mirai is Toyota’s car of the future. It runs on hydrogen fuel cells, gets 312 miles on a full tank and only emits water vapor. So, to target tech and science enthusiasts, the... More

Salesforce Mobile App Development Platform Honored (SCN)

The Salesforce App Cloud was named a leader by Forrester Research in its report The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Low-Code Development Platforms, Q1 2017. The report evaluated 11 vendo... More

Accenture: AI to Dominate Banking (BBC News)

Artificial intelligence will be the main way that banks interact with their customers within the next three years, a report from Accenture has suggested. Banks such as Royal Bank o... More

Smarter Tech Kills ‘Dumb’ Devices (OTT2)

All TVs made for the US market may soon be ‘smart’, but they could still stand to get a lot smarter. Basic WiFi connectivity and a grid of apps are a low bar to clear. They add... More

How Localization Will Help Alexa Achieve Global Dominance (ARC)

Alexa’s ongoing mission for global domination has taken another leap forward. Amazon announced that the Alexa Voice Service would now be available to developers that wanted to bu... More

Entering a New Age of Customer Experience: Data, Programmatic, and More (Marketing Tech)

While machine learning itself is nothing new, the speed at which data can now be processed, analysed and actioned has completely changed the machine-learning game. Readily affordab... More

Accenture Liquid Studio Opens in London (MESA)

Professional services firm Accenture has opened a London version of its Liquid Studios innovation lab, giving the company’s customers another outlet to grow projects in the artif... More

AudioEye Expands its Financial Services Customer Base (SCN)

AudioEye today announced that it has executed a substantial number of new customer subscription agreements during the fourth quarter of 2016. Working closely with its reseller part... More

Microsoft, TomTom Partner on Location Services for U.S. Automakers (GeekWire)

Microsoft has partnered with TomTom, a Dutch firm specializing in electronic navigation and mapping, to help build up location-based services in its Azure public-cloud service, and... More

Mindtree Named as a Leader for Application Outsourcing Capabilities (SCN)

Mindtree has been named a leader in application outsourcing among midsize offshore vendors by Forrester Research. Forrester evaluated Mindtree and 11 other vendors against 33 crite... More

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