AI focus shifts to ‘small and wide’ data

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! AI innovation is occurring at a fast clip, with a number of technologies on the “hype cycle” reaching mainstream adoption within two to five years. That’s according to Gartner, which today released a report identifying four trends driving near-term AI […]

In a year of major shifts, the self-driving car market is consolidating

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. News broke this week that Woven Planet, a Toyota subsidiary, will acquire Level 5, Lyft’s self-driving unit, for $550 million. The transaction, which is expected to close in Q3 2021, includes $200 million paid upfront and $350 million over a five-year period. […]

GameStop Shifts Focus To E-Commerce Under New Board Chair

GameStop’s stock might be a lot higher than where it started the year, but GameStop the company is still in need of retooling. With fewer people going into stores to buy games, GameStop is still losing revenue, which means they’ve gotta come up with an idea to compete in an increasingly digital market. To help […]

PUBG Shifts Esports Plans to Online-Only Regional Events

Esports live events for PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) have been canceled for the year, and will be replaced by a multi-region online competition series. PUBG Corp., the developer of the battle royale game, made the decision in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  The PUBG Continental Series (PCS) will consist of three events in May, […]

Tech industry shifts dollars and manufacturing to fight coronavirus

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the “great American industry” to help the country deal with the coronavirus. Tech companies are among those that are responding, both by wrangling donations and by shifting manufacturing to produce medical gear. In some ways, it feels like a war mobilization that is just beginning. The Defense Production Act […]