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Video calling platforms and apps have taken on an unprecedented role since the arrival of Covid-19. One of the most important and popular is Zoom, which will now add a new real-time machine translation feature, after announcing the purchase of communications company Kites . Through its official blog, Zoom announced that they are in negotiations to acquire the company Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions, abbreviated Kites . It is a German startup "dedicated to the development of real-time machine translation solutions" or MT, for its acronym in English. Zoom said that the acquisition of Kites represents the possibility of eliminating the language gaps between its users.

Every day, Q.ai brings you a list of trending stocks that have caught the fancy of hedge funds, retail investors, and the occasional Robinhood-er alike. And to celebrate the start of the new month, today's batch is a rather motley assortment spanning the sector spectrum, from vaccines and bath towels to spirits and cloud computing. Without further ado, let's see what stocks are trending as we celebrate the first day of July with an independence-sized bang. Q.ai runs daily factor models to get the most up-to-date reading on stocks and ETFs. Our deep-learning algorithms use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to provide an in-depth, intelligence-based look at a company – so you don't have to do the digging yourself.

Every week, Q.ai covers a different theme to introduce retail investors to different types of investing. These run the gamut from large and small cap stocks to particular sectors of the market to companies with solid value or growth potential. This week, we're going to take a look under the hood of some of the stocks in the Forbes AI Investor Industrial portfolio. Whether these stocks tinker, build, or drive commercial efforts behind the scenes, we're here to drag out the good, the bad, and the greasy for your edification. Q.ai runs factor models daily to get the most up-to-date reading on stocks and ETFs.

The News: HOUSTON – June 21, 2021 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup that delivers a powerful and robust software stack to train AI models faster, at any scale, using its open source machine learning (ML) platform. HPE will combine Determined AI's unique software solution with its world-leading AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings to enable ML engineers to easily implement and train machine learning models to provide faster and more accurate insights from their data in almost every industry. Analyst Take: HPE opened up its big Discover 2021 week with a handful of announcements. The deal size wasn't disclosed, but I immediately see this deal as a strategic capability to add to the company's HPC and AI portfolio and something that will be well suited to be incorporated into the company's as-a-service ambitions. Furthermore, the Determined AI acquisition comes at an opportune moment as HPE continues to accelerate the process of transforming its entire portfolio to consumption services as part of its GreenLake portfolio.

The transaction provided Luminar with the infusion of capital it needed to begin producing lidar sensors that use lasers to measure distances and classify objects for self-driving vehicles at a commercial scale, according to Chief Financial Officer Tom Fennimore. As a public company, however, Luminar must be mindful of how it spends the cash, he added. Luminar has positioned itself in recent years to benefit from the expected rise of autonomous vehicles. It has announced partnerships with car makers including Volvo Cars, which is owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, Daimler AG's trucks business and SAIC Motor Corp. Ltd. to incorporate its sensor technology into self-driving vehicle designs. The Morning Ledger provides daily news and insights on corporate finance from the CFO Journal team.

Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, California-based lidar company, said Tuesday it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition fund CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp., a Chinese blank-check firm affiliated with the country's largest state-owned investment conglomerate. The deal, which puts an implied valuation on Quanergy at $1.4 billion, is expected to close in the second half of 2021. After closing, the transaction will inject the lidar company with around $278 million in pro forma net cash, including $40 million in private investment in public equity (PIPE) funding. Lidar is an essential component of most autonomous driving systems -- the notable exception being Tesla's stack, which is attempting to develop a pure vision-based system to support its pursuit of automated driving (Tesla vehicles are not autonomous today and have what is considered a Level 2 advanced driver assistance system). Quanergy is a developer of solid state silicon lidar units, which pulses a low-power laser through an optical phased array to measure the distance and shape of objects.

The company is a late-stage cybersecurity startup that helps organizations secure their data using AI and machine learning. In an S-1 filing, the security company revealed that for the three months ending April 30, its revenues increased by 108% year-on-year to $37.4 million. Furthermore, its customer base grew to 4,700, up from 2,700 a year prior. However, SentinelOne's net losses were more than double from $26.6 million in 2020 to $62.6 million. We also expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we continue to invest for our future growth. Including expanding our research and development function to drive further development of our platform.

Banks, telephone service companies, Internet service providers, pay TV companies, insurance firms, and alarm monitoring services, often use customer attrition analysis and customer attrition rates as one of their key business metrics (along with cash flow, EBITDA, etc.) because the cost of retaining an existing customer is far less than acquiring a new one (Wikipedia). According to this article, the probability of selling to a new customer is 60-70%, while the probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%. So knowing if a customer is at risk of leaving is one of the most important tasks a company has to perform in order to keep growing its business. The data can be found here on kaggle public datasets. We will predict if a customer will churn based on his informations. There are 7043 customers and 20 features.

Bengaluru: Global professional services company Accenture will acquire umlaut, an engineering consulting and services firm headquartered in Aachen, Germany for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will scale Accenture's deep engineering capabilities to help companies use digital technologies like cloud, artificial intelligence, and 5G to transform how they design, engineer and manufacture their products as well as embed sustainability. The acquisition of umlaut will add more than 4,200 industry-leading engineers and consultants across 17 countries to Accenture's Industry X services, and expand the company's capabilities across a range of industries, including automotive, aerospace & defense, telecommunications, energy and utilities, Accenture said in a statement. Industry X combines Accenture's powerful data and digital capabilities with deep engineering expertise to offer clients the broadest suite of services for digitizing their engineering functions, factory floors and plant operations, improving productivity, speeding up the transformation of hardware into software-enabled products, and allowing for faster and more flexible product development. "We predicted that digital would ultimately be applied at scale to the core of a company's business - the design, engineering and manufacturing of their products. And, for nearly a decade Accenture has been building the unique capabilities and ecosystem partnerships to combine the power of digital with traditional engineering services," said Julie Sweet, chief executive officer, Accenture.