Cloud major Oracle on Monday launched Banking Cloud Services, a new suite of componentised, composable services for the banking industry. The Cloud-native, software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite will give corporate and retail banks the agility to modernise their banking applications to meet customer demands.
U.S. firm Epic Games is challenging Google in an Indian tribunal for not complying with some portions of an antitrust directive, alleging that the tech giant is not hosting the gaming company’s app store on Google’s Play Store app. Epic’s claims are the latest legal issues to plague the Alphabet Inc unit in India. Last month, after losing a legal fight with the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
The CDP industry isn’t immune from the general tech slowdown: 38% of firms showed a reduced headcount in the latest CDP Institute Industry Update report. Cuts were concentrated among the largest and fastest growing firms, suggesting an adjustment to lower expectations. It’s not all bad news: funding held up and the industry still grew over-all.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.