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Microsoft targets shift workers with new mobile collaboration tools for Teams
Team collaboration services such as Slack are for the most part geared toward knowledge workers. Microsoft Corp., however, is taking a broader approach by targeting the 2 billion shift workers worldwide who spend most of their time outside a cubicle. The company today debuted new features for its Teams collaboration service that focus specifically on ...
Google Assistant can now translate conversations, book hotel rooms and more
Google LLC made its presence known at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas this week, introducing a slew of new capabilities and integrations for its voice assistant. The updates, announced Tuesday, tick several boxes in the search giant’s strategy for driving Google Assistant adoption. One is making the service more handy for users on ...
Reports: Amazon to acquire disaster recovery startup CloudEndure for up $250M
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly in the process of buying CloudEndure Ltd., an Israeli disaster recovery startup that counts Dell Technologies Inc. as an investor. Anonymous tipsters told TechCrunch today that the transaction is valued at around $200 million. Earlier reports that appeared in the Israeli media late Monday pegged the price tag at $250 million. Globes, ...
IBM aims for practical quantum computing with new 20-qubit Q System One
Alongside the rollable TVs, drones and other new gadgets on display at the CES consumer electronics show this week in Las Vegas, IBM Corp. is demonstrating the latest evolution of its quantum computing hardware. The company today debuted the Q System One (pictured), a quantum computer that promises to bring the technology one step closer ...
Alibaba acquires stream processing startup data Artisans for $103M
In another sign of its growing enterprise ambitions, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced that it has acquired high-flying analytics startup data Artisans GmbH. The deal is reportedly worth 90 million euros, or about $103 million. It’s a respectable exit for Berlin-based data Artisans, which was founded in 2014 by the developers of the open-source Apache ...
Akamai acquires identity provider Janrain to boost security portfolio
A week into 2019, Akamai Technologies Inc. has already made its first acquisition of the year. The cybersecurity and content delivery heavyweight today announced that it has picked up Janrain Inc., a Portland-based identity management provider. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the price tag was likely fairly substantial: Janrain had raised ...
Microsoft teams up with Kroger to take on Amazon’s cashierless stores
Microsoft Corp. and Kroger Co. are teaming up to develop an answer to Amazon.com Inc.’s cashierless stores. The partnership, announced today, will see the companies bring to market a retail automation platform powered by Microsoft’s Azure public cloud. Kroger is already piloting parts of the platform in a handful of its stores. As part of the ...
Moesif reels in $3.5M for its AI-powered API analytics platform
Modern applications rarely exist in isolation. Enterprises often connect their workloads with other services or make them available to outside developers using application programming interfaces, a task that San Francisco-based Moesif Inc. is working to simplify. The startup today announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to scale up its efforts. Moesif provides ...
Massive Marriott breach included 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers
A clearer picture is emerging of the massive data breach that Marriott International Inc. disclosed in November. The hotel chain today released findings from the ongoing investigation into the hack, which was initially thought to have affected the records of up to 500 million customers. All of the compromised information came from a guest database belonging ...
GM’s Cruise and DoorDash team up for autonomous food deliveries
GM Cruise LLC, General Motors Co.’s $14 billion autonomous vehicle unit, is joining with food delivery startup DoorDash Inc. to explore a new use case for its self-driving cars. The companies this morning announced plans to launch an autonomous food delivery service in San Francisco. The pilot will see Cruise’s self-driving Chevy Bolts (pictured) pick ...