KEVIN KELLEHER

TIME • December 14th, 2016

Japan Has a Radically Different Approach to AI

Thanks to artificial intelligence, the automobile — that most American of possessions — is being remade. Self-driving cars from Google’s new Waymo subsidiary will hit the streets next year. Tesla’s fully automated cars will arrive in 2018. Uber is...

Inc • July 1st, 2015

What 3 Small Businesses Learned From Big Data

Business data has existed for ages. But mostly it just sat hopelessly trapped in handwritten ledgers, filing cabinets, and floppy disks, a precious resource untapped. Software from past decades helped only so much. Many such applications could work...

TIME • March 1st, 2017

Artificial Intelligence Is Changing How You Shop Online

The writer William Gibson once said that the future is here, just not evenly distributed. That was the case with the World Wide Web 20 years ago, when some business models – notably e-commerce and new media – took off faster than others. Now a similar...

VentureBeat • July 12th, 2017

How machine learning helps LinkedIn and Instagram predict what you’ll like

The more content that social networks have to filter through, the tougher the task becomes of showing the most relevant content to each user every time they log on. In a panel at MB 2017, engineers from Instagram and LinkedIn discussed how machine...

Fortune • December 24th, 2012

Will Adobe's New Cloud Strategy Pay Off?

A risky makeover of the king of shrinkwrapped software is starting to win over skeptics. Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen and a dozen of his top executives were se- questered in a tony Carmel Valley spa in California. It was early September of 2011, and...

TIME • May 13th, 2013

Why the Cloud Is Finally the Business Everybody Says It Is

The cloud, we keep hearing, is coming. But if you’re in the enterprise tech market, you might be forgiven for wondering when this mythical cloud is finally going to materialize. The answer seems to be: right now. 2015 is, by all appearances, the year...

CNN Money • October 1st, 2006

Amazon's new strategy: Web services

Even for someone as optimistic as Jeff Bezos, 2006 is turning out to be a hellish year. The Amazon.com founder and e-commerce pioneer saw his second-quarter profit plunge 58 percent, due largely to increased competition. For the year as a whole,...

VentureBeat • July 12th, 2017

Retail banks embracing AI and bots to catch up with fintech upstarts

Consumers have been paying their bills online and managing their finances for a couple of decades now, but big banks still remain laggards when it comes to adopting AI solutions that can improve their service to customers, a group of panelists who...

TIME • December 6th, 2016

How Amazon Go Plans to Totally Reinvent Grocery Shopping

The Jeff Bezos playbook works something like this: sketch out a big, audacious goal in a fledgling market, launch with a modest yet fine-tuned project and build incrementally over many years until you’re the 500-lb. gorilla of a thriving...

VentureBeat • July 12th, 2017

DoorDash was built using AI to speed up food deliveries

The next time you hear someone prattling on about life’s simple pleasures, remind them of one of life’s more complicated ones: eating delicious food in your home. For those of us who aren’t natural chefs — and even for the weary ones who are — that...

ReadWrite • July 18th, 2012

What's Killing the Printer Business?

The printer, once an indispensible peripheral, has become so peripheral that sales are in decline. How did the printer business reach this sorry state of affairs? Blame it on the combination of mobile devices and cloud storage. Printer manufacturers...