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Report: FTC antitrust officials are investigating Amazon’s AWS cloud business
Officials with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission are reportedly investigating whether Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services Inc., has violated antitrust laws. Bloomberg broke the news Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources who weren’t authorized to talk with the press about the matter. Details are slim for the time being, and Bloomberg said the ...
Qualcomm unleashes new generation of 5G-enabled Snapdragon chips
After giving the industry a sneak peak at its product roadmap on Tuesday, Qualcomm Inc. today officially unveiled the Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 756G, the chips that will power next year’s 5G-enabled Android devices. The Snapdragon 865 is the company’s new top-end processor. It’s based on a seven-nanometer architecture and uses a separate X55 modem module ...
Kustomer picks up $60M at $500M+ valuation for its customer service CRM
Marking its third funding round of the year, Kustomer Inc. today announced that it has picked up $60 million in additional capital from Coatue, Tiger Global Management and Battery Ventures. New York-based Kustomer has built a customer service platform that allows companies to handle inquiries from buyers more efficiently. The offering is built around a customer ...
BP shifts 900 workloads to AWS as Novartis, FINRA spin up new cloud data projects
BP plc will shift 900 core workloads to Amazon Web Services Inc. as part of an agreement revealed today, while Novartis AG and FINRA are spinning up massive new data projects on the provider’s public cloud. The three deals were all announced at AWS’ ongoing re:Invent event in Las Vegas. They follow several other high-profile ...
AI takes center stage: AWS debuts SageMaker Studio, CodeGuru, Kendra and more
Kicking re:Invent into high gear, Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled a massive array of artificial intelligence solutions spanning more than a half-dozen product categories, from code debugging to cybersecurity and contact center automation. And that’s on top of a formidable lineup of infrastructure announcements. The new AI offerings fill in key pieces of the ...
AWS wins multiyear cloud and machine learning deal with Fox
Media giant Fox Corp. will use Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, as well as managed offerings such as the provider’s SageMaker machine learning platform, to support broadcast operations. AWS announced the deal at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today alongside a raft of new product releases, many focused on machine learning. The contract ...
AWS brings Nvidia T4 GPUs to Outposts for AI inference and rendering
Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its AWS Outposts platform with the addition of G4 instances powered by Nvidia Corp.’s T4 graphics processing unit. Outposts enables organizations to deploy AWS infrastructure in their own data centers and have the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary manage the hardware on their behalf. It’s aimed at companies that wish to ...
Cerner taps AWS to power new AI healthcare platform
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that Cerner Corp., one of the world’s biggest providers of information technology for healthcare organizations, is standardizing machine learning workloads on its public cloud. Missouri-based Cerner has about 24,000 employees and closed 2018 with $5.4 billion in sales. The company sells an electronic health record management system called Millennium, ...
Pitching open-source monitoring, Logz.io debuts Cloud Observability Platform
The open-source ecosystem has a wealth of free monitoring tools that companies can use to track the health and security of their infrastructure. But deploying those tools at scale is sometimes complex to the point of being a barrier to adoption, an issue Logz.io Inc. is trying to solve. The recently funded startup today debuted the ...
After merger, Sisense brings more Periscope Data tech into business intelligence platform
Well-funded business intelligence startup Sisense Inc. absorbed peer Periscope Data Inc. this year in a merger that bumped its annual revenues above the $100 million mark. Today, the company is continuing the corporate integration story by bringing more of Periscope’s technology into its platform. Sisense’s platform enables business users to turn information like sales records ...