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Facebook Inc. has acquired Kustomer Inc., a heavily funded startup with a cloud service that companies use to field customer inquiries. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, CNBC and other publications reported that the transaction values Kustomer at just …
Google Cloud launches data API offering for healthcare organizations
Google LLC today introduced the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program, a bundle of solutions aimed at helping organizations in the healthcare sector manage patient data more effectively. A piece of legislation called the Cures Act that passed in 2016 created new …
Report: Salesforce will announce it’s buying Slack on Tuesday
Salesforce.com Inc. plans to announce its reported plans to acquire Slack Technologies Inc. on Tuesday after the markets close, CNBC reported today. The reported timing suggests that the announcement will likely coincide with Salesforce’s quarterly earnings call, which is also scheduled after …
IBM Cloud gets quantum-resistant cryptography
IBM Corp. is looking to make enterprise workloads deployed on its public cloud resistant to tomorrow’s encryption-breaking quantum computers. As a first step to that end, the company today introduced “quantum-safe cryptography” capabilities for three services in IBM Cloud: Red Hat OpenShift …
UK government will form new unit to regulate online platforms
The U.K. government will establish a Digital Markets Unit that will focus on regulating online platforms and could have the power to block business moves found to be anticompetitive, as well as hand down fines. The initiative was announced early today. The new unit is expected to …
AWS open-sources Graph Notebook to make working with graph databases easier
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s newest open-source project is Graph Notebook, a tool that enables data scientists to analyze and visualize information that their companies store in graph databases. Graph Notebook is based on software components that AWS originally developed for its Amazon …
Update: AWS fixes cloud outage that caused service disruptions across the web
Amazon Web Services Inc. is experiencing a technical issue with its Kinesis Data Streams service that has caused disruptions for Roku Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Roomba maker iRobot Corp. and a number of other companies that rely on the cloud giant’s platform. …
Report: Salesforce may buy Slack for $17B+
Slack Technologies Inc.’s share price surged more than 20% today following a report from the Wall Street Journal that Salesforce.com Inc. may be looking to buy the company. The Journal’s sources said that an acquisition, if it happens, would likely value Slack above …
Stripe reportedly eyeing new funding at $70B+ valuation
Stripe Inc., the startup whose technology powers the online payment features of Amazon and numerous other online platforms, is reportedly in talks for a new round of funding at a valuation exceeding $70 billion. The investment could potentially value San Francisco-based Stripe …
Splunk acquires Flowmill for its kernel-level network monitoring technology
Information technology monitoring and analytics provider Splunk Inc. today announced plans to buy Flowmill Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based startup with a software platform that helps enterprises gain better visibility into their networks. The terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. It’s expected …