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Adding to the pressure on Facebook Inc., Canada’s federal privacy watchdog said today that it plans to take the social network to court over the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political consulting firm, abused Facebook’s lax data policies to …
Alphabet’s Loon raises $125M from SoftBank subsidiary
Alphabet Inc.’s Loon LLC unit announced on Wednesday night that it has raised $125 million from SoftBank Group Corp. to support its plans for a stratospheric internet network. The Japanese carrier is making the investment through HAPSMobile, an aerospace venture in which …
Docker and Arm team up to bring containers to more platforms
Software containers enable enterprises to build applications that can run on many different types of infrastructure. In practice, though, most deployments run on hardware powered by Intel Corp. silicon because the chipmaker has a dominant share of the server market. In a bid …
MongoDB to acquire mobile database startup Realm for $39M
MongoDB Inc. today announced that it’s acquiring Realm, the startup behind the widely used mobile database of the same name, for $39 million. MongoDB is no stranger to the mobile market. The company jumped in last fall by launching a version of its …
Seeking new growth, Samsung pledges to invest $116B in processors through 2030
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is the world’s largest producer of memory chips. This morning, the company announced an ambitious investment plan aimed at making it the leader in the processor market as well. Samsung intends to invest 133 trillion Korean won, or …
Salesforce debuts new AI features to help salespeople find key data faster
According to one of Salesforce.com’s latest market studies, enterprise sales professionals spend only about a third of their time interacting with prospects. The rest of their work day mostly consists of administrative tasks such as gathering lead data, time that the cloud giant …
Alphabet’s Wing gets FAA approval to begin US drone deliveries
Wing Aviation LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s drone delivery subsidiary, today announced that it has received regulatory authorization to make commercial flights in the United States. Securing the approval required the group to get certified as an air carrier by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. …
Intel refreshes consumer portfolio with 40 new laptop, desktop chips
Following up the enterprise-grade laptop chips it introduced earlier this month, Intel Corp. today launched no fewer than 40 new central processing units aimed at consumer machines. The CPUs are all based on the 14-nanometer manufacturing process that the company has used …
Censinet launches with $7.8M in funding to help hospitals keep hackers at bay
For hospitals, cybersecurity can be a matter of life and death. The notorious WannaCry ransomware outbreak of 2017 hit an estimated 70,000 medical devices in the U.K. alone, while researchers recently showed it’s possible for hackers to alter MRI scans before doctors examine …
Samsung pushes back Galaxy Fold launch after display issues
Following reports of malfunctioning test units, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it won’t launch its Galaxy Fold handset on Friday as originally planned. The news is hardly unexpected. A couple hours before the official announcement, the Wall Street Journal broke the …