Uber backs up self-driving car moves with new mapping tech
By: Jamie Davies Uber has announced plans to ‘double-down’ its investments in digital mapping technologies to decrease its reliance on external sources and create a route into the autonomous vehicles sub-sector, reports Telecoms.com. The move comes after the team announced a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, though possibly wouldn’t come as […]
Microsoft Azure to deliver 2016 Olympics
By: Jamie Davies Microsoft has announced it has partnered with broadcaster NBC for its Azure cloud platform to help deliver cross-platform multi-streaming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games, . The Azure cloud platform will help NBC deliver more than 4,500 hours of coverage from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games throughout August. According to Microsoft, […]
AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM continue cloud market dominance
By: Jamie Davies New research from Synergy states while the cloud market is growing at a healthy rate quarter-by-quarter, the four dominate cloud brands are continuing to pull away from the pack, controlled more market share month-by-month, . Data from Synergy Research claims the four companies now collectively control more than 50% of worldwide cloud […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Nonprofit CRM with Maplytics; AX for Oilfield; Reduce Invoice Time with NAV; New Apps in AppSource
By: Linda Rosencrance StratusLIVE Nonprofit CRM Software Integrates with Maplytics StratusLIVE LLC is teaming up with Inogic to integrate Inogic’s Maplytics software. This will provide comprehensive mapping and geo-analytics features within StratusLIVE for Fundraisers, built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016. Maplytics provides mapping, appointment planning, route optimization, territory management, data analytics, and other map-related features. […]
Why Did Oracle Announce the Acquisition of NetSuite?
By: Anne Shields Oracle announced its largest acquisition to date On July 28, 2016, Oracle (ORCL) announced the acquisition of NetSuite for $9.3 billion. Oracle is paying roughly $109 per share for each NetSuite stock, which is a 19% premium to NetSuite’s closing stock price of $91.57 per share as of July 27, 2016. NetSuite’s […]
Oracle Purchase of NetSuite Will Help It Vie With Cloud Rivals
By: Jing Cao and Brian Womack Oracle Corp., lagging the competition in cloud-based services, is essentially buying market share with its $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Inc. Oracle has been trying for years to shift from selling software installed on corporate customers’ gear the old way to delivering it over the internet. Yet in its […]
Oracle Buys NetSuite
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NetSuite (NYSE: N), the very first cloud company. The transaction is valued at $109.00 per share in cash, or approximately $9.3 billion. “Oracle and NetSuite cloud applications are complementary, and will coexist in the marketplace forever,” said Mark Hurd, Chief […]
For Oracle, Money’s Not the Problem. It’s Coping With the Cloud.
By: Quentin Hardy It was not all that difficult for the Silicon Valley software giant Oracle to pay $9.3 billion for a company called NetSuite. But then writing big checks has rarely been a problem for Oracle, which over the last 11 years has acquired dozens of companies in its quest to find more and […]
First look: Google Cloud Machine Learning soars
By: Martin Heller Four, rich, pretrained machine learning APIs bring the smarts behind Google to your apps In the 2016 Google Founder’s Letter, CEO Sundar Pichai cited Google’s long-term investment in machine learning and AI. “It’s what allows you to use your voice to search for information,” he explained, “to translate the web from one […]
Marketing pros discuss what they want from IT
By: Matt Kopko IT leaders don’t always have great working relationships with their colleagues in marketing, but the technology decisions they make can have significant impact on marketers. A group of digital marketing pros explains just what they expect from IT. When marketing and technology collide, too many IT departments react with extreme measures. CIOs […]