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SAP’s new no-nonsense Concur Travel bot lets users book flights via Slack
Booking flights for employees is just one of the many activities involved in a company’s day-to-day operations, but it’s big business for SAP SE. The technology giant bought travel management provider Concur Technologies Inc. for $8 billion in 2014 and has since grown the division’s user base to more than 46 million workers. SAP now ...
Hollywood taps the Linux Foundation to create a home for its open-source projects
Hollywood is joining the open-source movement. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known as the organizer of the Oscars, today announced that it has teamed up with the Linux Foundation to create a home for the entertainment industry’s open-source projects. To this end, they’ve established a new organization called the Academy Software ...
Qualcomm settles $773M antitrust case in Taiwan amid global legal battle
Qualcomm Inc. late Thursday announced that it has settled an antitrust case with Taiwan’s competition regulator in a development that could hold broad legal implications for the chipmaker. Under the agreement, the settlement will replace a $773 million fine that was levied against the company last year. The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission imposed the penalty after finding ...
At Unpacked 2018, Samsung unveils Galaxy Note 9, a new smart speaker and more
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted the long-anticipated Galaxy Note 9, a homegrown smart speaker to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and a variety of other products. Indeed, the new “phablet” was the star of Samsung’s big Unpacked conference today. The Note 9 looks mostly similar to last year’s model, featuring only a handful of external changes headlined ...
Intel unveils new 32TB, ruler-shaped SSD hailed as the densest ever
Intel Corp. has unveiled a new ruler-shaped flash drive aimed at the data center market that it hails as the densest in the world. The SSD DC P4500 (pictured), introduced late Wednesday, packs a hefty 32 terabytes of capacity. It uses 3D NAND technology, a type of flash in which the constituent memory cells are ...
It’s graduation day for Prometheus, the open-source container monitoring system
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today officially graduated Prometheus from incubation, opening a new chapter in the popular open-source project’s evolution. Prometheus is one of the most widely used systems for monitoring software container deployments. As such, the project has taken on an important role in the rise of containers, which are increasingly used to ...
Samsung pledges to invest $22B in AI, 5G and other emerging technologies
Samsung Group today unveiled a grandiose plan to invest $22 billion in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence over the next three years. The effort will be driven primarily by the conglomerate’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. arm, which makes its popular mobile devices. Last quarter, the handset maker saw profits decline for the first time in nearly ...
Oracle formally challenges the Pentagon’s controversial $10B cloud contract
Oracle Corp. has filed a formal protest against the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract in a bid to change the structure of the controversial project. The complaint, reports of which emerged late Tuesday, focuses on the government’s plans to award the deal to a single company. Oracle is pushing for JEDI to be revised so ...
Intercom rolls out new chatbot builder to automate customer engagement
Intercom Inc., a customer engagement startup that achieved unicorn status with a big funding round in March, today launched a new tool to let brands automate their interactions with users. Custom Bots is a chatbot builder that enables companies to build tailored virtual assistants. It extends Intercom’s flagship Messenger platform, a chat service for websites that can be used to ...
RiskRecon bags $25M funding round backed by Accel and Dell to tackle outside security risk
Enterprises generally rely on countless different cloud service providers, suppliers and other third parties to support day-to-day operations. Recent history has shown that it can take just one such partner to be hit by a breach for sensitive data to get compromised. Salt Lake City-based RiskRecon Inc. is one of the players trying to mitigate ...