Panasonic has announced plans to invest $ 150 million in machine learning technology and artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks.
The Japanese electronics manufacturer plans to invest part of the funds allocated under the venture fund Conductive Ventures II in promising developers of software and equipment for various industries, incl. autopilot, finance, digital healthcare, the future of labor, commerce, manufacturing technology and more.
At the moment, Google, Facebook, Baidu, ABBYY, Cognitive Technologies and other companies are actively working and conducting research in the field of artificial intelligence. The field of application of neural networks is quite diverse – these are text recognition and human language comprehension, semantic search, computer vision, big data analytics, robotics, expert systems, linguistics and much more.
IT giant Google and Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek have invested in Indonesia’s largest online store Tokopedia, writes Nikkei Asian Review. The amount of investments is not disclosed. In October, Bloomberg reported that Tokopedia was going to raise about $ 350 million from Google and Temasek. This is Google’s second investment in the Indonesian unicorn. […]
The French company has developed an augmented reality application for digital makeup. The Signature Faces application allows you to apply filters to your face in real time. “We believe that everyone is beautiful by themselves, but in a world where the camera is always on, it’s normal to want to “play” with filters. We want […]
Shares of Amazon, which rose by 73.8% since the beginning of the year (more than the growth of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook), fell 2% after closing trading on Thursday, when the company released a report for the 3rd quarter, which ended September 30. Amazon set a new revenue record, e-commerce increased sales by 57% […]
Shares of Alphabet, which rose 18.2% over the past 6 months, rose 9% after closing trading on Thursday when the global advertising giant announced significant improvements in the reporting quarter. Google’s parent financial report far exceeded analysts’ expectations and showed a resumption of advertising revenue growth after reporting a drop in revenue for the first […]
According to trading data, securities of the microblogging service Twitter Inc. after the close of the main trading session in the US fell in price by more than 17%, also according to financial statements, in the red were the shares of US technology giants Amazon, Apple and Facebook, only Alphabet reporting pleased investors. Thus, shares […]
Apple has intensified work on its own search service, which will become a competitor to Google, writes the Financial Times, citing interlocutors in the mobile industry. One of the signs of this, the interlocutors called the fact that after updating the iOS operating system, Apple began to show its own search results and provide direct […]
In the last week of October, investors expect a lot of news, as more than one-third of the components of the S&P 500 index, or 186 companies, must report financial results for the third quarter. The information field is even richer given the election race in the United States, the situation with the pandemic and […]
French oil and gas company Total and Google Cloud developed technology based on artificial intelligence to assess the potential use of the solar energy in homes. This is stated in the message of the Total. “Total and Google Cloud pooled their expertise to jointly develop innovative tools of the Solar Mapper, which aims to accelerate […]
Closing a topic of legal relations registration niceties with the builder, we have approached to the last which LDaily so-called as a”scheme” of investment attraction. It is apartment purchase through securities. This method deserves a special attention because it is simple, reliable and becomes more and more popular. Therefore builders practice the conclusion thicket and […]
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A staff lawyer or a freelance consultant? This question was asked by many businesses, if not by all. And any of the control of management found both pluses and minuses of each option. Some people prefer in-house lawyers (corporate – in house), because they know the situation “from within”, while others are trying to involve […]
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Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) in the period of the interim administration and liquidation of insolvent Delta Bank recognized as negligible 175 deals worth 22.292 billion UAH. According to the DIF, in particular, to 11 business transactions, including the sale of the assets with the discount, or related parties, transaction of 12.2 million UAH were recognized […]
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As “Liga.net” reports, ATB will have finished the transaction on purchase of large West Ukrainian Barvinok retail network until the end of the year. ATB,the largest food retailer buys the Barvinok West Ukrainian network.The network has already changed the owner in 2015. Then Eurotek purchased it. The investment banker who wished to remain unnamed reported:”ATB […]
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The net profit of the German automaker Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) for January-September 2020 decreased almost 1.7 times year on year and amounted to 2.11 billion euros. Adjusted earnings per share were € 3.2 against € 5.37 a year earlier. Annual revenue decreased by 7.1% to last year’s level – to 69.508 billion euros. […]
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Representatives of Ukrainian business improved their assessments of the economic condition of their enterprises and prospects in February. This follows from a monthly survey of Ukrainian enterprises, the results of which on Monday, March 1, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). It is noted that this happened in response to the weakening of […]
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The financial conglomerate BNP Paribas (headquartered in Paris) acquired indirectly 11.42% of the British JKX Oil&Gas, which owns the Poltava Petroleum Company. This is stated in the message of the JKX Oil&Gas reported on the London Stock Exchange. The owner of the package of the JKX at a rate of 11,42% became the British company […]
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The Ukrainian authorities are waiting for the new credit transfer revenues from the International Monetary Fund, according to Ukrainian news agencies Ukrainian News. The government is almost assured of getting a regular cash flow, referring to all the fulfillment of the conditions: the transition of Privatbank in public ownership and approval of the state budget […]
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The “Klub syra” Company is considering the possibility of cheese deliveries to Romania and Bulgaria and deliveries of dry fat-free to Romania, Bulgaria and Poland. This was announced by the CEO of the company Maxim Rylik, writes “Ukrainian News”. “As for the European Union, today we are considering the issue of the exports in direction […]
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Shares of Visa, which rose 4.7% since the beginning of the year and recovered almost all losses in February and March, which decreased after the publication of the financial report for the 3rd quarter, that ended on June 30. Income per share of Visa in the 3rd quarter decreased from 23% to $ 1.06, which, […]
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A serious scandal, which erupted in the Ternopil region, and subsequently has covered the whole territory of Ukraine, continues to grow. In the night of 2 to 3 July 2016, on the motor company which is owned LLC GLOBAL FID, attacked by a group of armed young people, in an amount of about 50 people, […]
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One of the largest Ukrainian agricultural groups “Kernel”, will pay $ 2.4 million, according to the results of court proceedings, in which it was involved in the case of contamination of the Ukrainian sunflower oil delivered in the EU in April 2008. According to the company report, disclosed on its website on Friday, the court’s […]
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The deal on the absorption by the US company Liberty Media group of companies Formula 1 is currently closed. Liberty Media has confirmed the completion of the absorption of the prestigious auto-racing Formula 1, and said that a new CEO position will head Chase Kerry. He succeeds his predecessor, Bernie Ecclestone. It became known from […]
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Investors will build a plant for processing oil in Sumy region. This was discussed during the meeting of the regional state administration Mykola Klochko and a director of investors company, representative of the Azerbaijani diaspora, Elin Aliyev. “Sumy has a considerable agro-industrial potential and prerequisites for the development of the processing industry. We are interested […]
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development intends to provide the “Astarta” agro-holding a loan of $ 20 million. The money will be spent for modernization of sugar factories. This was said in the message of the bank. According to the report, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering the possibility to give […]
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Since the end of 2016 year it has been observed in Ukraine a negative surge of activity among sole proprietorships. It is talking about a mass liquidation of FOP associated with the innovations of the taxation system in Ukraine. Thus, according to the legislation since January 1st of this year, every natural persons-entrepreneurs are undertaken […]
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