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Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 voice skills, more than doubling since beginning of the year

by Nat Levy on July 4, 2017July 4, 2017 at 9:33 amComment

As more and more companies get into the smart speaker game, a new report shows just how much ground they have to make up to catch Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa.… Read More

UK regulators slap hospital involved in project with Google’s DeepMind over data handling

by Tom Krazit on July 3, 2017July 4, 2017 at 10:45 amComment

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research was dealt a minor setback Monday after U.K. regulators ruled a hospital it partnered with on a medical diagnostic app improperly handled medical data, and… Read More

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Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

by Tom Krazit on July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 at 10:39 amComment

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each… Read More

Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores

by Kurt Schlosser on June 28, 2017June 28, 2017 at 12:16 amComment

There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences that the retailer will soon… Read More

Google’s Amazon defense: Search giant cites rival’s rise in response to $2.7B EU antitrust fine

by Nat Levy on June 27, 2017June 27, 2017 at 10:47 amComment

Google has been fined $2.7 billion by European regulators for using its dominance in the search engine market to favor its comparison shopping service over competitors like Amazon or eBay.… Read More

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Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only

by Nat Levy on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 at 8:42 amComment

Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker, for one day only. This is not the first time… Read More

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Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace

by Tom Krazit on June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 at 4:59 amComment

Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round in Seattle-based AI algorithm marketplace Algorithmia. Algorithmia is essentially an… Read More

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Google’s data-driven pitch for the cloud: ‘finding the needle of value in the haystack of data’

by Tom Krazit on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 at 12:40 pmComment

For most of its existence, Google Cloud Platform has been fighting just to get a seat at the table for cloud business against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. If… Read More

What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs

by Nat Levy on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 at 4:24 pmComment

As promised, some of the world’s top tech CEOs from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and many others met with President Donald Trump today, and some appeared to enjoy… Read More

Trump to talk policy with tech CEOs Bezos, Nadella, Cook and others in Washington D.C.

by Nat Levy on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 at 5:40 pmComment

Follow-up: What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs An all-star contingent of tech CEOs will meet Monday with President Donald Trump, as well as other top federal… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

by Tom Krazit on June 15, 2017June 15, 2017 at 11:04 amComment

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any enterprise tech company with money to spend would interested in… Read More

Google continues to emphasize its cloud tech chops as it scrambles to catch AWS and Azure

by Tom Krazit on June 7, 2017June 8, 2017 at 3:14 pmComment

Despite a lot of grumbling that Google needs to improve its enterprise sales outreach to properly compete in the cloud, the company still seems to think it’s best to put… Read More

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

by Nat Levy on June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 at 12:27 pm1 Comment

Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out of the brand new campus. Until now. At the GeekWire… Read More

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

by Tom Krazit on June 6, 2017June 6, 2017 at 9:42 amComment

Spinnaker, an open-source project that lets companies improve the speed and stability of their application deployment processes, reached the 1.0 release milestone Tuesday. Google announced the 1.0 release of Spinnaker,… Read More

Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home

by Nat Levy & Taylor Soper on June 5, 2017June 5, 2017 at 2:03 pm 4 Comments

Apple today unveiled its own voice-activated smart home speaker, the HomePod. Set to begin shipping in December, the speaker is designed to be spatially aware, meaning that it understands the… Read More

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

by Tom Krazit on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 at 12:56 pm 2 Comments

Abundant clean energy sources, business friendly tax incentives, and new undersea fiber-optic cables will keep the Pacific Northwest as one of the most important regions in the U.S. data center… Read More

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

by Tom Krazit on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 at 12:06 pmComment

As part of this year’s sprint through more than 300 slides on the state of technology, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker highlighted a couple of interesting facts about cloud computing: cloud… Read More

Charts: Tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are world’s most valuable companies

by Nat Levy on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 at 11:05 amComment

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is out, and the 355-page dive into all things tech shows just how big some of the world’s leading tech companies have become. The… Read More

Report: Google planning AI venture capital group led by engineers

by Tom Krazit on May 26, 2017May 29, 2017 at 6:24 pmComment

Google has always been a company run by engineers for engineers. It looks like it’s also going to give some of them a shot at running a venture capital project… Read More

Google launches powerful new Cloud TPU machine-learning chips for Google Cloud Platform

by Tom Krazit on May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 at 12:23 pmComment

Google is “rethinking our computational architecture again,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai, who rolled out the next generation of Google’s specialized chips for machine-learning research Wednesday. The new chips are… Read More

AWS maintains sizable lead as public cloud market grows 42% in Q1

by Tom Krazit on May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 at 9:33 am1 Comment

Demand for public cloud infrastructure services continues to be one of the hottest growth stories in technology. New market share results out from Canalys Tuesday morning show 42 percent growth… Read More

Ahead of I/O, Google Cloud Platform adds new managed IoT service, releases Cloud Spanner

by Tom Krazit on May 16, 2017May 15, 2017 at 4:31 pm1 Comment

Underscoring how the internet of things is finally going mainstream in 2017, Google now has a new service for Google Cloud Platform that makes it easier for customers to upload… Read More

Aerial photos: Construction begins on Google’s massive Seattle campus in Amazon’s backyard

by Nat Levy on May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 at 3:59 pm 14 Comments

Crews have started work on Google’s new campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, on the edge of Amazon’s global headquarters. The project, which is being developed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real… Read More

Nutanix adding IBM’s Power processors to its data center bundles for AI applications

by Tom Krazit on May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 at 12:08 pm 2 Comments

Nutanix plans to release a line of server appliances with IBM’s Power processor for artificial-intelligence applications, the first time it has shipped one of its data center bundles with anything… Read More

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Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 voice skills, more than doubling since beginning of the year

UK regulators slap hospital involved in project with Google’s DeepMind over data handling

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores

Google’s Amazon defense: Search giant cites rival’s rise in response to $2.7B EU antitrust fine

Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only

Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace

Google’s data-driven pitch for the cloud: ‘finding the needle of value in the haystack of data’

What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs

Trump to talk policy with tech CEOs Bezos, Nadella, Cook and others in Washington D.C.

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

Google continues to emphasize its cloud tech chops as it scrambles to catch AWS and Azure

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

Charts: Tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are world’s most valuable companies

Report: Google planning AI venture capital group led by engineers

Google launches powerful new Cloud TPU machine-learning chips for Google Cloud Platform

Ahead of I/O, Google Cloud Platform adds new managed IoT service, releases Cloud Spanner

Aerial photos: Construction begins on Google’s massive Seattle campus in Amazon’s backyard

Nutanix adding IBM’s Power processors to its data center bundles for AI applications

Google film ‘Dot of Light’ features pioneering female astronauts and dramatic views from space

As Microsoft renews push into the classroom, educators give Google highest marks in new study

With $256 billion, Apple has more cash than Amazon, Microsoft and Google combined

Tech earnings extravaganza: Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Expedia set to report today

Serverless computing might finally deliver on the promise of the cloud

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has ‘a pretty good shot’ of overtaking AWS in five years

Application Deadline for Seattle Angel Conference SAC XII

App Camp for Girls – Seattle

Rain RFID Alliance Meeting