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Samsung reportedly developing 6.7-inch flagship phone with 6 cameras
A new report claims that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will add no fewer than four new devices to its Galaxy S smartphone lineup next year, including a supersized flagship dubbed “Beyond X.” The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying the model will feature a massive 6.7-inch screen. For comparison, the current-generation Galaxy S9 ...
Intel backs $40M funding round for long-range LiDAR startup AEye
AEye Inc., a startup developing a novel, artificial intelligence-powered sensor for autonomous vehicles, today announced that it has picked up a $40 million funding round from Intel Corp. and Kleiner Perkins. The lead investor was Taiwania Capital, a fund associated with Taiwan’s National Development Council. Other participants included aerospace giant Airbus SE, Tychee Partners and several unnamed ...
Microsoft acquires application virtualization startup FSLogix
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired FSLogix Inc., a venture-backed virtualization startup with big-name customers such as Verizon Communications Inc. and Britain’s National Health Service. Suwanee, Georgia-based FSLogix provides software for virtual desktop infrastructure. VDI enables companies to set up workspaces based on Windows 10 or another operating system in a centralized location and ...
Stocks tank on report that Apple has cut production of all 2018 iPhone models
Consumer demand for the latest iPhones appears to be falling short of Apple Inc.’s expectations. The Wall Street Journal reported today the company has scaled back production of the latest-generation XS, XS Max and XR models that it unveiled only in September. Apple suppliers involved in manufacturing the XR, most affordable of the trio, are said ...
Google Cloud boss Diane Greene resigns, replaced by former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian
Diane Greene, the chief executive officer of Google LLC’s cloud business, is leaving the division that has been a prime focus for the company since she joined. Greene’s surprise exit comes hot on the heels of another high-profile departure: Diane Bryant stepped down as Google Cloud’s chief operating officer in July. Bryant had joined the search ...
Icahn ends proxy fight with Dell after it boosts VMware offer to $23.9B
Dell Technologies Inc. has sweetened the terms of its proposed stock market return, prompting major shareholders to back the move and Carl Icahn to end his highly publicized proxy fight against the company. The billionaire hedge fund manager announced his decision Thursday afternoon, just hours after Dell published the revised offer. The company plans to go public through an unconventional ...
Backed by new investment from Salesforce, Docker inks alliance with MuleSoft
Docker Inc. today announced a broad partnership with software integration provider MuleSoft Inc. that will focus on helping enterprises manage their internal applications more efficiently. The alliance is accompanied by a new investment from Salesforce.com Inc., which acquired MuleSoft for $6.5 billion last year. Docker didn’t disclose the size of the round, but the very fact that ...
SoftBank joins the RPA craze, leads $300M round into Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere Inc., one of the biggest players in the red-hot robotic process automation market, today announced that it has snagged $300 million from SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. The investment values the software maker at $2.6 billion. It comes as an extension to the $250 million Series C round that Automation Anywhere raised in ...
In potential win for AWS, Oracle loses protest against the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract
Updated with statement from Oracle The U.S. Government Accountability Office has flatly dismissed a complaint from Oracle Corp. over the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, in a development that could hold industrywide repercussions. Today’s decision comes about two months after Oracle Corp. lodged its protest against JEDI, as the project is officially known. The ...
Samsung unveils new 8-nanometer Exynos chip with dedicated AI module
The latest iteration of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s mobile processor is designed with artificial intelligence in mind. The Exynos 9820, which debuted today, is based on an eight-nanometer, eight-core architecture and features a specialized “neural processing unit.” Samsung said that the module enables the chip to run AI software about seven times faster than the ...