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Amazon debuts the Dash Smart Shelf to gain a bigger presence in office supplies
After getting its Echo smart speakers into tens of millions of homes, Amazon.com Inc. is now hoping to establish a bigger presence in the workplace. The company on Thursday pulled back the curtains on the Dash Smart Shelf, an internet-connected scale for businesses that automatically reorders office supplies from Amazon when they’re about to run ...
Xerox to HP: Accept buyout offer or face proxy fight
Xerox Holdings Corp. is determined to see its $33.5 billion buyout bid for HP Inc. succeed. After receiving a formal rejection over the weekend, the copier and printer maker today sent a letter to the HP board pledging to take the offer to HP shareholders if a deal is not reached by Monday afternoon. The ...
Automation Anywhere lands $6.8B valuation with fresh $290M round
Robotic process automation provider Automation Anywhere Inc. has added another $290 million to its coffers through a Salesforce Ventures-led funding round it announced today. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. chipped in too. SoftBank was the lead investor in Automation Anywhere’s previous $300 million round last November, which followed a $250 million raise just four ...
Cisco reportedly shakes up organization with executive and division changes
After its mixed earnings report last week, Cisco Systems Inc. is launching a major organizational reshuffle. That’s according to reports published on Wednesday in The Information and CRN, which both cited an internal email attributed to David Goeckeler, Cisco’s executive vice president and general manager of networking and security. Goeckeler wrote in the memo that the ...
Alibaba raises $11.2B from investors in year’s biggest stock sale
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised $11.2 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange today in the year’s biggest listing. The company structured the stock sale as a secondary offering, since it already trades on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s NYSE debut back in 2014 set a record as well at the time. Alibaba priced ...
Facebook is standardizing development on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code
Facebook Inc.’s thousands of developers produce an enormous volume of code every month for projects ranging from new social apps to machine learning models that speed up MRI scans. Going forward, a sizable portion of that software will be written in Visual Studio Code. The social network detailed Tuesday afternoon that it has been quietly ...
Apple breaks ground on $1B Austin campus that will house up to 15,000 employees
It’s not quite HQ2, but Apple Inc.’s new corporate hub in Austin, Texas, represents a major expansion of its U.S. operations. The iPhone maker today officially broke ground on the campus, which will cost $1 billion to build and sits on a 133-acre plot of land not far from the factory housing the Mac Pro production line. Apple ...
With Cloud Pak for Security, IBM serves up threat detection in a container
IBM Corp. today revealed the latest addition to its lineup of containerized software offerings: a threat hunting tool called Cloud Pak for Security that promises to boost the productivity of network protection teams. The product is delivered as a software container and comes integrated with the Red Hat OpenShift application platform. OpenShift lets administrators automate key ...
After $50M May round, Aryaka debuts four new cloud networking services
Networking technology provider Aryaka Networks Inc. today introduced four cloud services aimed at enabling organizations to connect their offices, data centers and off-premises workloads more efficiently with one another. The products form the pillars of a new suite the company dubs SmartServices. The fifth offering in the bundle, SmartConnect, is Aryaka’s existing flagship product. It’s ...
Google targets on-premises SAP workloads with new Cloud Acceleration Program
Google LLC today inaugurated the Cloud Acceleration Program, an initiative that will provide technical resources and consulting services to enterprises looking to move their SAP SE deployments to the search giant’s cloud platform. Germany-based SAP’s back-office applications power key business processes at thousands of organizations worldwide, including a big percentage of the Fortune 500. Those companies are ...