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Facebook and Qualcomm team up to supercharge Wi-Fi in urban areas
Facebook Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. are joining forces for an ambitious initiative that aims to provide a dramatic jump in wireless connectivity speeds in urban areas. The collaboration, which was announced this morning, centers on the social network’s Terragraph Project. It’s a development program that was revealed to the public in 2016 and seeks to ...
AWS launches bare-metal and NVMe instances for demanding workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. is continuously working to improve the selection of infrastructure options available on its cloud platform. The latest additions arrived on Thursday, in the form of a bare-metal offering and a new instance family equipped with high-speed NVMe flash storage. Both target enterprise applications with demanding hardware requirements that can’t be addressed ...
Rackspace buys consulting startup RelationEdge to grow its cloud presence
The past few years has seen Rackspace Inc. pivot from competing with Amazon Web Services Inc. and the other major cloud players to actively partnering with them in the capacity of a professional services provider. The company now hopes to grow its role in the cloud ecosystem via a new acquisition. Rackspace on Thursday announced ...
Microsoft wins nine-figure cloud contract with the US intel community
Amid a showdown over a controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp. has scored a strategic victory against the other contenders. The company announced on Wednesday that it has landed a six-year cloud deal with the intelligence community “worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars.” The deal was awarded ...
Intel’s Mobileye will equip 8 million new cars with self-driving tech
Intel Corp.’s Mobileye division is getting closer to its goal of making self-driving vehicles a mass-market reality. According to a Reuters report from this morning, the group has landed a massive deal with an unnamed European automaker to supply autonomous driving technology for 8 million cars. The Mobileye executives who spoke to the news agency ...
SnapLogic adds new connectors and container support to its integration platform
SnapLogic Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to connect their disparate applications and data sources. The company, which is eyeing an eventual initial public offering, today launched a new iteration of its flagship integration platform with a host of improvements. The update focuses mainly on expanding SnapLogic’s collection of application connectors. These connectors, which it ...
Oracle bolsters its cloud business with acquisition of DataScience.com
Oracle Corp. is looking to expand the analytics capabilities of its cloud platform with a new strategic acquisition. The technology giant this morning announced that it has inked an agreement to buy DataScience.com Inc., a venture-backed startup with a platform for powering analytics projects. The software, which can run both in the cloud and on companies’ in-house infrastructure, is ...
Report: Microsoft plans a new line of tablets to take on Apple’s iPad
Microsoft Corp. reportedly plans to bolster its Surface device family with a new line of low-cost tablets in a bid to challenge the market dominance of Apple Inc.’s iPad. The models are set to become available as soon as the second half of the year for around $400, Bloomberg reported today. That’s compared with the $799 ...
Apttus’ upgraded sales AI can find deal opportunities and give advice
Apttus Corp. is looking to make artificial intelligence a bigger part of how enterprises close deals. The software-as-a-service unicorn, which provides a platform for handling the logistical aspect of large business transactions, today unveiled new AI features designed to automate common administrative tasks. The capabilities are rolling out to its Max chatbot for sales teams. According to Apttus, the assistant ...
HPE to acquire heavily funded networking startup Plexxi
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced plans to buy Plexxi Inc., a software-defined networking startup that has raised over $80 million from venture capital firms. The financial terms were not disclosed, but the $267 million valuation Plexxi reportedly received after its last financing round may provide an idea of the acquisition’s price tag. The transaction ...