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SwiftKey founder on selling his startup to Microsoft, and why it was the right time
Pogoplug unlimited cloud storage service is shutting down on September 28
Microsoft launches Azure regions in Germany out of preview
Dropbox now asks for accessibility permission in macOS Sierra, coming to OS X in next few weeks
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Survey: US companies are ill-prepared for new EU rules
Google Drive now supports natural-language search
Twilio acquires Kurento’s WebRTC media server technology
Twilio’s Voice Insights lets developers manage WebRTC call quality in apps
IBM launches new Power8 cloud systems, storage, and software
Curve raises $3 million to aggregate all your bank cards into one
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Chasing the clouds: Can Oracle really close the gap with Amazon and start growing again?
Oracle launches a chatbot development platform
Larry Ellison says ‘Amazon’s lead is over’ as Oracle unveils new cloud infrastructure
Salesforce forms research group, launches Einstein A.I. platform that works with Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud
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Ford’s self-driving car is … totally normal
SwiftKey’s mobile keyboard app now offers better word predictions built on neural networks
Oracle will unveil its 2nd-generation cloud infrastructure next week
Outlook.com gets support for Google Drive files, sharing Facebook photos, and a huge attachment improvement
Carbon3D raises $81.1 million and forms strategic deals with GE, BMW, Nikon, and JSR
Asana launches custom fields for paying customers
Amazon’s biggest renewable energy project: a 253-megawatt Texas wind farm opening in 2017
Lucid Software raises $36 million to grow its enterprise-focused design and diagramming tools
Salesforce to name chief equality officer next week
Udacity launches self-driving car nanodegree in partnership with Mercedes-Benz, Nvidia, others
Microsoft will launch Azure Service Fabric for Linux out of limited preview on September 26
Cato Networks raises $30 million for its network security as a service platform
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5 ways artificial intelligence will change enterprise IT
White House names retired Air Force general as nation’s first cyber security chief
DOJ studying if self-driving cars pose ‘terrorist threat’
A 14-year-old built an Alexa skill for checking the status of AWS
Shippo raises $7 million to further its goal of being Twilio for shipping
Cloud spend management company Coupa files to raise $75 million in IPO
Box teams with cloud vendors to launch coalition supporting crisis response groups
Google to acquire API management provider Apigee for $625 million
IBM unveils Power8 Linux servers for deep learning
Salesforce’s Community Cloud gets Lightning templates from Accenture, Deloitte, others
Twilio targets the enterprise with plan offering more security and regulatory controls
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