Large technology companies like Apple and Google parent Alphabet are increasingly offering financial services to boost revenue and gain greater access to the data that is at the heart of their business models.
As more industries regard speedy data analysis as a core competency, individual workers will start crafting their own tools to get the job done – and that’s where Microsoft’s Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Virtual Agents come in.
There are many challenges that must be considered if you want your organization’s data lake architecture to be a valuable asset instead of a “data dumping ground.”
The shift moves the world’s biggest search engine from spitting out results based on keywords to “something closer to language,” said Ben Gomes, the search chief for Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
Dominant tech companies have gained enormous competitive advantages from data, which deserves special attention from antitrust officials and lawmakers, according to Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra.
The debate underscored that support for a tougher approach to dealing with big technology companies goes beyond Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has called for breaking up Facebook, Google and Amazon.
