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Apple hit with dual antitrust investigations by the European Commission
Apple Inc. is the subject of two new European Commission antitrust investigations that will seek to determine if the company broke competition law with the App Store and Apple Pay. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch and antitrust regulator, announced the probes today. The action follows regulatory complaints from some of Apple’s competitors. The ...
Google fund co-leads $21M round into AI app development startup Streamlit
Streamlit Inc., the startup behind a new but already widely used artificial intelligence application framework, today announced that it has raised a $21 million funding round co-led by Google LLC’s Gradient Ventures fund and GGV Capital. Streamlit’s open-source framework, also called Streamlit, eases the process of building AI applications. The software launched only last October and has since ...
HPE expands 5G ambitions with new cloud-based Edge Orchestrator
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a new cloud offering called HPE Edge Orchestrator that it says will enable telecommunications providers to offer edge computing services to their enterprise customers. Telcos worldwide are spending billions of dollars to upgrade their networks to 5G. HPE in March launched a push to capture this market by introducing ...
AWS will open a cloud database office in Microsoft’s hometown
Amazon Web Services Inc. is opening a cloud hub with capacity for more than 600 employees in Redmond, Washington, home to Microsoft Corp.’s global headquarters. AWS and parent Amazon.com Inc. have been rapidly adding employees globally to support revenue growth. The company currently employs nearly a million people worldwide, including tens of thousands in its multibuilding Seattle ...
Data analytics giant SAS signs far-reaching cloud deal with Microsoft
SAS Institute Inc., a veteran provider of analytics and machine learning software that serves most of the Fortune 500, today announced a broad cloud deal with Microsoft Corp. to use Azure in its internal operations. SAS’ history dates back more than 40 years to 1976. The analytics provider generated revenues of $3.2 billion in 2018 ...
Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before Congress amid probe into big tech
Amazon.com Inc. has signaled that Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before Congress as lawmakers investigate the business practices of the tech industry’s top players. The House Judiciary Committee is currently pursuing an antitrust probe into Amazon, Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Google LLC to look for potential anti-competitive conduct. A report last week ...
UK antitrust watchdog opens inquiry into Facebook’s Giphy acquisition
The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, said today that it has opened an inquiry into the deal Facebook Inc. inked to acquire Giphy Inc. last month. An Axios report at the time indicated that the social network is paying about $400 million for the company. While the CMA’s investigation is ongoing, Facebook and ...
Google sues smart speaker maker Sonos in escalating legal feud
Google LLC on Thursday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against smart speaker maker Sonos Inc., five months after it likewise sued Google for infringing its patents. Publicly traded Sonos sells high-end smart speakers and audio accessories that provide voice control features through integration with popular artificial intelligence assistants. Google Assistant is one of the services the ...
Twitter purges 32,000+ accounts engaged in ‘state-linked information operations’
Twitter Inc. said today that it has taken down more than 32,000 fake accounts engaged in “state-linked information operations” on its platform. According to a blog post from members of the Twitter Safety team, the accounts were operated by three networks that it has connected to the People’s Republic of China, Russia, and Turkey. The company ...
Microsoft boosts Azure with new edge video analytics and authentication features
Microsoft Corp. today introduced a new edge video analytics product for its Azure cloud platform, as well as improved authentication features to help organizations better address the shift to remote work. There’s a growing trend of analytics workloads moving from data centers to the so-called edge of the network. A manufacturer, for instance, might wish to ...