IBM Watson

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The White House announced a $1-billion pledge Wednesday for funding artificial intelligence and quantum research institutes. The money is intended to be used to establish 12 new research institutions. What You Need to Know: The new funding from the government aims to ensure that every sector...

A basic truth exists for investors looking to extract value from alternative data, said Sequentum CEO Sarah McKenna: they need clean, valuable data feeds to start with. The New York-based company provides software and services for web data collection at scale. “Your artificial intelligence,...

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This story is the first in a multipart series by Benzinga on the state of the fintech sector in 2018. The relationship that big banks have with fintech startups is a big-picture story in the finance sector. Beyond the headlines, there are natural areas of friction between institutions and startups...

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Shares of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) hit a new 52-week low of $147.40 on Wednesday after the company reported its second-quarter results, which marked the 21st consecutive quarter of declining revenue. But not all analysts are ready to throw in the towel and turn sour on the...

Social media’s war for your mind-share has largely settled into a stalemate between the Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)/Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)/Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) triumvirate. There’s only so much time people can spend on social media, and besides, we’ve always been at war with...

Salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) launched Einstein, an artificial intelligence platform, for general availability Tuesday. “Einstein is clearly becoming a more important lever for SaaS differentiation” and could “accelerate multi-cloud adoption and support continued large-deal...

Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research has argued in the past the social media boom has come to an end and should be considered an "anti-trend" for 2017 and beyond. Chowdhry also labeled mobility, hybrid cloud and the gig economy as an "anti-trend," but the notable analyst has shied away from...

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is holding the IBM World of Watson 2016 conference between Monday and Thursday in Las Vegas this week. The most awaited address of the event is sure to be the keynote speech by CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty. Rometty is scheduled to deliver her...

Following the aggressive hiring and estimated data acquisitions worth $5 billion, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) appears all set to benefit from the revenue monetization of Watson. Morgan Stanley’s Katy L. Huberty maintained an Overweight rating on the company, while...

This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is spending $2.6 billion in order to acquire Truven Health Analytics Inc. The deal will boost IBM's artificial intelligence efforts by providing its Watson computer with a slew of new data. IBM...