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Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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ServiceNow sees revenue growth of 24%
In the first financial quarter, ServiceNow posted revenue of $2.6 billion, or about €2.4 billion. Exactl...
U.S. Senate passes bill potentially banning TikTok
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill requiring the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S....
Microsoft introduces tiny AI model Phi-3 Mini
Microsoft today released the first version of a new series of super-small AI models: Phi-3 Mini. This so-call...
SAP’s AI push leads to higher quarterly revenue in first quarter 2024
SAP's focus on delivering more AI services to ease customers' cloud ERP transition seems to be paying off. In...
Possible EU fine and suspension of TikTok Lite for ‘addictive’ rewards program
TikTok finds itself once again in the crosshairs of the European Commission. The governing body is launching ...
Meta opens up Horizon OS: Microsoft, Lenovo and Asus build VR hardware
Meta is renaming its VR platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third parties. Meta, leading sales f...
Update: Acquisition of Informatica by Salesforce appears to be off the table
Update 22/04/2024 - Salesforce does not appear to have closed the deal with cloud data management firm Inform...
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Application testing democratised via GenAI in Tricentis Copilot
Software application development is benefiting from AI-assisted testing at the ‘back end’ of enterprise I...
Hugging Face rates AI models on their medical reliability
Hugging Face recently introduced its Open Medical benchmark. This solution tests LLMs on the reliability and ...
Preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 now available
Microsoft has made available the commercial preview of Office LTSC 2024. This version is intended for a limit...