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Apple, Google and Dropbox under investigation by Italy’s competition watchdog
Italy’s competition watchdog, the AGCM, today said that it will investigate Apple Inc., Google LLC and Dropbox Inc. over their respective file storage platforms’ terms of service. Regulators are concerned the companies may have run afoul of Italy’s Consumer Rights Directive and engaged in unfair commercial practices. If the AGCM finds they did indeed violate ...
After closely watched re-evaluation, Pentagon says JEDI will go to Microsoft after all
The U.S. Defense Department today reaffirmed its controversial choice to award its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp., six months after officials said they would re-evaluate the decision. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract will be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years. Under the deal, Microsoft is set to provide the ...
Reports: SoftBank stock market bets contributed to recent jump in tech shares
Large stock market bets made by SoftBank Group Corp. may have contributed to the recent jump in the share prices of tech giants such as Microsoft Corp., according to two new reports. The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal today reported that SoftBank has purchased billions of dollars’ worth of options tied to the ...
Continuing expansion, Amazon to add 10,000 more workers in Bellevue
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to add 10,000 new employees in Bellevue, Washington on top of the 15,000 workers it was already looking to hire in the city before. Bellevue is currently home to about 2,000 Amazon personnel. It’s about 15 minutes or so by car from Seattle, which hosts Amazon’s global headquarters, and the two ...
Arm’s latest Cortex-R82 chip aims to enable smarter storage hardware
Arm Ltd. today announced the Cortex-R82, a chip designed to enable a new generation of storage devices that will not only hold data but also help process it. Such devices are part of an emerging hardware category known as computational storage. The technology promises to provide a speed boost for latency-sensitive workloads such as machine ...
Alphabet’s DeepMind details new AI prediction tech in Google Maps
DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit, today detailed new machine learning technology it has developed to make Google Maps more useful. Maps has more than a billion users worldwide who rely on the service to plan their travel routes. One of the service’s most central features is its ability to generate time of arrival estimates, helping ...
Qualcomm targets new 5G-enabled Snapdragon chip at crowded laptop market
Qualcomm Inc. today introduced a new laptop processor, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G, that it claims is faster and more power-efficient than comparable Intel Corp. silicon. The announcement comes just a day after Intel debuted its latest line of central processing units for laptops. The chip giant, which has long held the leadership position ...
Apple, Amazon and Google raise some fees in response to new digital taxes
Three of the biggest names in tech are raising some service fees to offset the impact of the digital taxes implemented recently in the U.K. and other countries. Apple Inc. and Google LLC said in separate statements today that they plan to start passing on the cost of the taxes to customers soon. Also on ...
With AMD on its heels, Intel unleashes first Tiger Lake laptop chips
Intel Corp. today introduced the first nine central processing units powered by its recently revealed Tiger Lake architecture, promising a more than twofold performance boost for some applications. The chips are all designed to power laptops, a segment in which Intel is facing rising competition from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. after years of holding a ...
Microsoft launches Azure Spring Cloud to simplify enterprise software projects
Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a managed service designed to reduce the amount of work involved in building and maintaining enterprise applications on its cloud platform. Azure Spring Cloud is the fruit of a collaboration with VMware Inc. and was first previewed by the companies last year. The service is ...