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• Just say no to blockchain (for now) advises Gartner

  31-10-2018 22:08
  ​In response no doubt to the huge amount of interest it receives from chief information officers about the technology, Gartner hosted eight sessions on blockchain at it's annual Symposium event on the Gold Coast this week.
  
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• IBM to move Watson Health to a hybrid cloud

  31-10-2018 19:23
  IBM is moving Watson Cognitive Health to the hybrid cloud to offer greater access to a larger pool of payer and health record information for analytics.
  
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• Tableau talks up natural language interface for creating visualisations

  31-10-2018 11:00
  BI vendor seeks to simplify and automate data analysis as part of a growing trend toward injecting AI capabilities into BI tools.
  
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• Ford, Baidu to start self-driving road tests in China

  31-10-2018 09:16
  Ford Motor Co and Baidu Inc launched a two-year project on Wednesday to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous vehicle technology.
  
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• Samsung slashes capex, calls end to chip boom after record third quarter

  31-10-2018 06:34
  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd slashed 2018 capex by more than a quarter on Wednesday and warned of lower profit until early next year, calling an end to a two-year boom in memory chips that fueled record third-quarter profit.
  
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• Factbox: Ten years of bitcoin

  31-10-2018 06:19
  Bitcoin, the world's first and most famous cryptocurrency, celebrates its tenth birthday on Wednesday.
  
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• Early bitcoin investors count winnings after volatile decade

  31-10-2018 06:19
  Seven years ago, Marshall Hayner gave his grandfather one bitcoin, worth about $30. On the paper wallet he fashioned to commemorate the gift, the U.S. entrepreneur and software developer wrote: "Do not open until $100,000."
  
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• Baidu's fourth-quarter sales forecast misses estimates as regulation, trade fears bite

  31-10-2018 05:27
  Chinese search engine operator Baidu Inc on Wednesday forecast lower-than-expected sales for the rest of the year, citing looming economic uncertainty and tough new regulations that have impacted its ad clients.
  
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• Government launches first of eight digital ID pilots

  31-10-2018 04:51
  The government has officially launched the first pilot of myGovID, its digital identity platform.
  
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• Google’s G Suite hit by problems

  31-10-2018 04:15
  Google has told customers that it is investigating reports of problems affecting Gmail and a number of its other G Suite products.
  
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• Waymo gets first California OK for driverless testing without backup driver

  31-10-2018 02:31
  Alphabet Inc'sWaymo unit on Tuesday became the first company to receive a permit from the state of California to test driverless vehicles without a backup driver in the front seat, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles said.
  
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• Telstra cloud services suffer outage

  31-10-2018 02:05
  Telstra has confirmed it is aware of an issue affecting its cloud services impacting access to some external applications.
  
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• ANZ slashes application footprint, continues Agile push

  31-10-2018 01:56
  In FY18 ANZ decommissioned 264 applications as part of the bank’s broader simplification push.
  
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• ASX makes post CHESS blockchain move

  31-10-2018 01:53
  Implementing the blockchain-inspired system is not the end game. It is just the beginning says CIO.
  
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• Facebook expects rising costs to combat scandals to moderate after 2019

  31-10-2018 01:43
  Facebook Incon Tuesday relieved investors by forecasting that margins would stop shrinking after 2019 as costs from scandals ease up, sending shares up despite a second-straight quarter with record-low user growth.
  
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• British app bank Monzo hits unicorn status after latest fund raising

  31-10-2018 01:10
  British app-only bank Monzo said on Wednesday that its backers now value the lender at 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion), giving it unicorn status, after it raised 85 million pounds to fund the doubling of its workforce.
  
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• EBay beats quarterly profit on cost cut efforts, shares rise

  31-10-2018 00:31
  EBay Incbeat analysts' estimates for third-quarter profit by managing costs at a time when bigger rival Amazon.com Incmissed revenue estimates and forecast sales below expectations for the holiday quarter.
  
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