By Priya Anand and Olga Kharif Amazon faces a crucial test on Wednesday with the release of its first original big-budget video game. The reception from homebound gamers will signal whether the company can become a force in a $159-billion global industry dominated by the likes of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Crucible is a free-to-play […]
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TikTok owner is world’s most valuable startup at over $100 billion in private markets
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi By Lulu Yilun Chen, Vinicy Chan, Katie Roof and Zheping Huang ByteDance’s valuation has risen at least a third to more than $100 billion in recent private share transactions, people familiar with the matter said, reflecting expectations the owner of video phenom TikTok will keep pulling in advertisers. Stock in the world’s […]
ETtech Top 5: Home delivery of booze, Amazon’s food ordering biz, making money online
Happy Thursday! India has the lowest density of liquor shops in the non-Islamic world. And when the government decided to reopen liquor vends following a 40-day shutdown, there was chaos, to say the least. Liquor retail outlets across the country have always attracted massive crowds. Before India went into lockdown, a few companies that had […]
Crooks Tap Google Firebase in Fresh Phishing Tactic
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CIOs Need AI Platforms, Not Just Tools
Open source tools are crucial to machine learning development, but if you want to manage those models in the enterprise, you need a platform. Trying to do more with less during the pandemic? While organizations may not be jumping into big investments right now, everyone is looking to conserve cash and maximize revenue in these […]
COVID-19 places Augmented Reality at the heart of the ‘new working normal’
COVID-19 will accelerate the business world’s move to Augmented Reality (AR) and other IoT solutions, as companies across the UK look to adapt to a ‘new working normal’. Jim Heppelmann, CEO of industrial innovation technology specialist PTC, believes the way frontline workers have seamlessly adapted to the benefits of AR to continue to perform their […]
Meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow with Azure AI
It’s inspiring to see how customers continue to reimagine how they work with the help of AI, which is more important today than ever. Our customers are finding innovative ways to deliver crisis management solutions, drive cost-savings, redefine customer engagement, and accelerate decision-making. Here are some notable examples we’ve recently seen: Scaling crisis management On […]
Amazon launches food delivery service in India
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Amazon India has launched its food delivery service, Amazon Food, in select pin codes of Bengaluru. The development comes at a time when order volumes for the two largest players in the online food delivery space — Swiggy and Zomato — have hit an all-time low due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The […]
Azure Synapse Analytics: Insights for all
In November we announced Azure Synapse Analytics—a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. Despite the massive disruptions occurring throughout industries in recent months, we continue to see a high level of excitement and enthusiasm for joining the private preview to use analytics in these times of crisis. Thank […]
Azure Stack updates and how it enables intelligence at the edge
Today, more than ever before, it is essential that our colleagues, customers, and partners be able to react quickly and confidently to rapidly changing circumstances. The ability to ingest, analyze, and act on incoming information requires that an organization have a robust, scalable technology infrastructure. Such an infrastructure is not limited to one place or […]