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Adobe and Microsoft deepen their cloud integrations to ease document editing
Adobe Systems Inc. is making its enterprise-friendly document management tools more easily accessible for Microsoft Corp. customers. This expanded interoperability is the result of new integrations that the company debuted early this morning. Born from a cloud partnership that Adobe struck with Microsoft last September, the integrations focus primarily on two products: its Sign e-signature service and ...
Microsoft veterans launch new startup to change how infrastructure is managed
Pulumi Corp., a startup founded by three Microsoft Corp. veterans, this morning exited stealth mode with $5 million in funding and an open-source platform designed to change how enterprises manage their infrastructure. Today’s leading infrastructure automation platforms require administrators to learn highly specialized configuration languages in order to use them. By contrast, Pulumi provides the ability ...
Microsoft buys video learning startup Flipgrid for an edge in the classroom
Microsoft Corp. is hoping to gain a new software edge over rivals such as Google LLC in the highly competitive education market. The technology giant today announced the acquisition of Flipgrid Inc., the startup behind a video learning platform with more than 20 million users worldwide. Flipgrid’s service allows teachers to create a digital space ...
Volvo taps LiDAR startup Luminar to provide tech for its self-driving cars
Volvo Car Corp.’s role in the autonomous vehicle segment is not limited to supplying tech firms with cars for their self-driving fleets. The Swedish automaker, like most of its top competitors, is also working on homegrown autonomous driving capabilities in a bid to woo consumers. Volvo today announced that it’s moving the effort up a gear through ...
Report: Microsoft is moving to challenge Amazon’s automated grocery stores
A team of engineers at Microsoft Corp. is reportedly pursuing an initiative to develop technology for a new generation of automated, cashier-free stores. The effort, which was revealed by Reuters this morning, appears to be a direct counter to Amazon.com Inc.’s Go retail automation project. According to one of the news agency’s sources, Microsoft has ...
With new platform release, Sysdig looks to make containerized apps more secure
Sysdig Inc. debuted a new version of its software container security platform at the DockerCon conference today, with features to prevent code vulnerabilities from making their way into enterprise applications. Many factors can lead to a security weakness slipping through the cracks. One of them, according to Sysdig, is that companies often push back vulnerability ...
Docker introduces new features for managing software containers at DockerCon
Docker Inc. today introduced new features for its enterprise products that aim to simplify the deployment and management of software containers at scale. The startup is a major force within the container ecosystem, having played a key role not only in developing the technology but also popularizing it. Docker’s container platform leads the market to this ...
Tableau acquires Empirical Systems, an AI startup with MIT roots
Tableau Software Inc. is looking to enhance its data visualization platform through the newly announced acquisition of Empirical Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence startup with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As part of the transaction, made public this morning, Tableau is gaining Empirical’s Analytics Engine, a software tool designed to take much of the complexity ...
Microsoft will overhaul Office 365’s iconic ribbon as part of a broad redesign
More than a decade after Microsoft Corp. introduced the trademark ribbon that frames the top of every core Office 365 application, the option-packed toolbar is about to take on a new form. The change is part of a broader redesign that the company announced today. Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Office and Windows ...
ARM picks up IoT connectivity specialist Stream Technologies
ARM Holdings plc today announced that it has acquired Stream Technologies LLC, a software provider focused on helping companies optimize how their “internet of things” devices communicate. Sensors and other connected endpoints can generate massive amounts of data when deployed in large numbers. Stream’s software provides the ability to configure how those endpoints transmit information, ...