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Carrier chooses AWS to power its internet-connected future
Carrier Corp., a maker of air conditioners and building management products with $18 billion in annual revenue, has selected Amazon Web Services Inc. as its preferred cloud provider. AWS shared details of the agreement this morning. The cloud giant didn’t divulge any financial terms, but did say Carrier intends to move up to 70% of its ...
Google Takeout bug sent some users’ private videos to strangers
A glitch that hit Google LLC’s account backup tool last November allowed users to download the private videos of strangers, the search giant has disclosed. The issue, first reported by 9to5Google early this morning, occurred between Nov. 21 and Nov. 25. It affected the Takeout archiving tool that the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary provides to let consumers ...
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Business software maker Infor to be acquired by Koch Industries at a reported $13B valuation
Infor Inc., a major provider of enterprise resource management software that was weighing to go public, has been acquired by Koch Industries Inc. in a blockbuster deal announced today. The companies didn’t disclose the financial details, but sources told Bloomberg and TechCrunch that the transaction values Infor at nearly $13 billion. Wichita, Kansas-based Koch Industries is an ...
Google under investigation in Ireland over collection of users’ location data
Ireland’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation to determine if the way Google LLC tracks users’ location is legal. The probe was prompted by a number of complaints from European consumer organizations, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission detailed today in the statement announcing the inquiry. The watchdog said the groups raised concerns about “the legality of Google’s ...
Kaskada, led by cloud veterans, raises $8M for its AI feature engineering platform
Kaskada Inc., a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup led by Google LLC and Amazon Web Services Inc. veterans, today announced that it has raised $8 million in funding. Kaskada is on a quest to automate the so-called feature engineering phase of enterprise AI projects, which is simultaneously one of the most important and one of the most ...
HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale to bolster security capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software for protecting enterprise applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Scytale had raised $8 million in funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners. Scytale was launched in 2017 by the creators of SPIFFE ...
After Apple, Amazon reportedly in talks with Goldman Sachs about fintech tie-up
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in talks with Goldman Sachs about a partnership in which the bank would provide loans to merchants operating on the Amazon Marketplace. The loans would apparently be offered directly through the online retail giant’s platform, according to the Financial Times and CNBC reports that broke the news this morning. Anonymous sources ...
Exiting storage array market, Western Digital sells off ActiveScale unit to Quantum
Fresh off a better-than-expected earnings report that sent its shares rallying last week, Western Digital Corp. today announced that its ActiveScale object storage business will be acquired by Quantum Corp. in a deal set to close later this quarter. Western Digital is one of the industry’s main suppliers of disk and flash drives. A few years ago, the ...
137 countries pledge to create new tax rules for tech giants by year’s end
The governments of 137 countries have agreed to draft new rules for taxing multinational tech firms, a milestone that could eventually lead to heightened levies on the likes of Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC. The news was announced today in Paris by Pascal Saint-Amans, the head of tax policy at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...
Google brings Windows containers to its Kubernetes Engine
Continuing its quest to establish a bigger presence in the Microsoft Corp. ecosystem, Google LLC today introduced the ability for enterprises to run Windows Server containers on Google Kubernetes Engine. As is the case with Linux workloads, more and more companies are delivering their Windows Server applications in containers to streamline operations. But the process ...