Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison kicked off the OpenWorld conference Sunday by unveiling the company's second generation of cloud products and services and declaring, "Amazon's lead is over." Oracle's cloud infrastructure business remains well behind not only market leader Amazon, but Microsoft, Google and IBM as well. Ellison also introduced a chatbot development platform.
[Jay Greene | Wall Street Journal]
Salesforce is adding artificial intelligence enhancements to its customer relations management applications. The cloud-based AI services, collectively called Einstein, are designed to automate tasks, predict behavior and spotlight relevant information.
[Rachael King | Wall Street Journal]
Lyft President John Zimmer says that in about five years, all Lyft rides will be handled by fully autonomous cars and that by 2025, individual car ownership in major U.S. cities will be rare.
[Johana Bhuiyan | Recode]
Jason Calacanis is pivoting again. Nine years ago, he launched Mahalo as a search engine, then turned it into a YouTube company, then shifted focus to the Inside news app. Now he's moving into topic-focused newsletters under the Inside brand, starting with eight, but aiming for hundreds.
[Peter Kafka | Recode]
On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Niantic CEO John Hanke talks to Kara Swisher about the explosive launch of Pokémon Go and new features in the works, including events, trading and possibly player-versus-player battling.
[Eric Johnson | Recode]
Transportation
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Now he wants to train more engineers for the fast-growing industry, since there are simply not enough.
Advertising
By Kurt Wagner
Buying fewer ads means more money to deal with legal headaches.
Gaming
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How do you get there? Walls, of course.
Social
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Twitter
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Former CEO Dick Costolo and current CFO Anthony Noto were also named.
The short video "Lost in Light" looks skyward from a succession of locations with different levels of light pollution, starting with the gray glow over San Jose and ending with the impossibly full starscape over Death Valley.
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