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Bitbucket Pipelines Adds Mercurial Support

Atlassian has released the 4.8 version of its Bitbucket tool, and the biggest change is that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports Mercurial as well as Git. That’s an interesting move, because

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Smartwatch Sales Plummet 32%

According to the market analysts at IDC, sales of smartwatches fell 32 percent in the second quarter, dropping from 5.1 million last year to 3.5 million this year. The decline

Google Cloud Platform Adds More AI APIs

Google Cloud Platform has unveiled beta releases for two new machine learning APIs. The Natural Language API offers sentiment analysis, entity recognition and syntax analysis in English, Japanese and Spanish.

Microsoft Doubles its Cloud Computing Business

The good news from Microsoft’s most recent earnings report was that its revenue from its Azure cloud computing division doubled year-over-year. On the other hand, the company’s phone revenue declined

IBM Cloud Computing Revenue Climbs 30%

IBM has released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2016. Overall, the company had $20.2 billion in revenue, a 2.6 percent year-over-year decrease. However, company executives pointed out