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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, in comparison, Microsoft reported $22.1 While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 While overall revenue including services and license support rose 4% year over year to reach $10.5 And Oracle has tough competition ahead. R&D, service expenses increase.

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Lip-syncing app Wombo shows the messy, meme-laden potential of deepfakes

The Verge

You’ve probably already seen a Wombo video floating around your social media. One-click fakes that can be created with zero effort and expertise, by comparison, still look like those made by the Wombo app and will continue to do so for the immediate future. It’s Wombo time. Image: Wombo.

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Waymo and Cruise dominated autonomous testing in California in the first year of the pandemic

The Verge

But companies licensed to operate AVs on public roads in California still logged nearly 2 million miles of testing, with two of the top operators, Waymo and Cruise, comprising the bulk of those miles thanks to what some safety drivers allege was a lax attitude toward safety. a decrease of about 800,000 miles from the previous year.

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Global comparisons: Fastest Growing Online Properties - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The US leads in usage of all leading social networks. Facebook began as a US college-only social network, however since opening to other users has had strong international as well as domestic uptake. Is there any reason why Canada would be omitted from these comparisons? Britain, Canada and Australia.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Who is capturing the new industry of online classifieds? Analysis and global comparisons - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Analysis and global comparisons Ross Dawson, August 30, 2007 4:15 PM US PT In the Future of Media Report 2007 we published some original research on the ownership of online classifieds in the US, UK, and Australia. He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.

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Tapping the Zeitgeist: Powerful tools for spotting online trends - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Conversation Tracker follows conversational threads and Featured Trends are editorially-selected trend comparisons. Technorati charts enables tracking of trends for individual terms, and allows you to embed those charts on your website or blog, however does not allow comparison of terms. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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