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Google Cloud Launches New AI Tools for Retailers

Google Cloud Launches New AI Tools for Retailers

Google Cloud is launching four new and updated AI tools to provide customers with a smoother online shopping experience and assist retailers with in-store inventory management. A personalized search and browsing experience for ecommerce sites. An AI-powered solution for checking in-store shelves. An AI-driven product recommendation system. A tool that uses machine learning to arrange products on websites. Here’s more about each of the new tools. Personalized Search & Browsing For Ecommerce… Source link

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Google Cloud Introduces Shelf Inventory AI Tool for Retailers

Google Cloud Introduces Shelf Inventory AI Tool for Retailers

Google Cloud said it has developed a new artificial intelligence tool designed to help big-box retailers better track the inventory on their shelves, aiming to improve a technology that has struggled to work well in the past. Google Cloud said Friday its algorithm can recognize and analyze the availability of consumer packaged goods products on shelves from videos and images provided by the retailer’s own ceiling-mounted cameras, camera-equipped self-driving robots or store associates. The… Source link

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What’s Google Cloud So Worried About? — The Information

What’s Google Cloud So Worried About? — The Information

What is going on at Google Cloud? Today, Jon, Kevin and Amir had an important story about an executive shakeup involving the departure of Google’s top sales executive in the U.S., Kirsten Kliphouse. You may recall that Google Cloud, after 10 years of trying, is still a distant second to Amazon and Microsoft in the business.  Google didn’t much like the story and started telling people it was wrong. When we pushed it on why, the company said it was inaccurate because the person… Source link

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Google Downplays Microsoft Cloud Potential Versus Wall Street; Analyst Disagrees

Google Downplays Microsoft Cloud Potential Versus Wall Street; Analyst Disagrees

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google has for years struggled to improve its position in the cloud market versus leaders like Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT). An internal estimate by Google, from a leaked Microsoft document and some extrapolation of other market statistics, indicated Google Cloud believes it’s closer to second place than analysts think, CNBC reports. Google estimated that Microsoft generated under $29 billion in Azure… Source link

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle Share DoD Cloud Contract

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle Share DoD Cloud Contract

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts with a combined potential value of up to $9 billion to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program. JWCC is the successor to Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), which attracted contracting controversy and was canceled last year in favor of a multi-cloud approach. Each of the four companies has been awarded a hybrid (firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials,… Source link

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Cloud tech played key role in COVID-19, but has more uses ahead: AWS exec

Cloud tech played key role in COVID-19, but has more uses ahead: AWS exec

The lack of real-time data in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, while frustrating, was not a new problem for the U.S. A similar issue existed during the 2009 flu pandemic a decade earlier — but it was worse. “The way you found out about school-aged kids dying in emergency rooms wasn’t from a surveillance system. It was the front page of the Boston Globe,” said Dr. Taha Kass-Hout. He would know. Kass-Hout had just joined the CDC, mid-outbreak, as director of Health Informatics Solutions… Source link

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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle get $9 billion Pentagon cloud deal

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle get $9 billion Pentagon cloud deal

The Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. Staff | AFP | Getty Images The Pentagon said Wednesday that Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle received a cloud-computing contract that can reach as high as $9 billion total through 2028. The outcome of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, effort is in line with the U.S. Defense Department’s effort to rely on multiple providers of remotely operated infrastructure technology, as opposed to relying on a single company, a strategy promoted… Source link

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Google Cloud Gets DOD’s Blessing. But Will It Win Contracts?

Google Cloud Gets DOD’s Blessing. But Will It Win Contracts?

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ClickHouse launches ClickHouse Cloud, extends its Series B • TechCrunch

ClickHouse launches ClickHouse Cloud, extends its Series B • TechCrunch

Since its launch as an open-source project by Yandex in 2016, ClickHouse has become one of the leading databases for online analytical processing (OLAP), allowing businesses to quickly generate ad-hoc reports over very large datasets. In 2021, Yandex spun off ClickHouse into its own company and joined an initial $50 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital. Two months later, Coatue and Altimeter led the company’s Series B round, with participation… Source link

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Yahoo Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider for Its Ad Tech Business

Yahoo Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider for Its Ad Tech Business

Yahoo migrates its advertising tech infrastructure to the cloud, leveraging AWS’s industry-leading technologies to innovate digital experiences for leading brands and publishers LAS VEGAS, December 01, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Yahoo has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. Building on its longtime relationship with… Source link

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