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Report: Google could be hit with an up to $11B antitrust fine from the EU
The European Union may be gearing up to hit Google Inc. with a massive, multibillion-dollar fine as part of an antitrust probe focused on Android. The information comes courtesy of reports published in the Financial Times and Politico late Wednesday. The latter publication cited multiple people with “direct knowledge” of the investigation as saying that the ...
US will lift the crippling sanctions on China’s ZTE and fine it $1B
The U.S. is set to lift the crippling sanctions it has placed on ZTE Corp. as part of a newly struck deal that will include a $1 billion penalty against the Chinese electronics company and sweeping leadership changes. “At about 6 a.m. this morning, we executed a definitive agreement with ZTE,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross ...
LinkedIn taps Microsoft’s Bing for new Commute Time feature targeting job seekers
LinkedIn is becoming increasingly integrated with the other platforms and services in parent company Microsoft Corp.’s portfolio. The latest example of this arrived this morning in the form of Commute Time, a new feature in the social network’s widely used job search tool. It relies on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s Google Maps alternative, to give users information on ...
PagerDuty’s incident response platform can now learn from operations teams
PagerDuty Inc. today unveiled new automation features for its incident response platform that can learn from the administrators who use them. The platform, which has been adopted by Google Inc., Comcast Corp. and other large companies, is designed to help customers better deal with urgent incidents such as a data center outage. Organizations can configure ...
With new chips, AMD ratchets up competition with Intel and Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted two new chips, one for the enterprise and another targeting consumers, that will each one-up the competition in their respective markets. The company made the announcements at the Computex computing trade conference in Taipei. The event had earlier seen the introduction of new chips from Nvidia Corp. and Intel ...
Microsoft has deployed an underwater data center off the Scottish coast
Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it has deployed, or more precisely sunk, a self-contained data center in the waters off Scotland as part of a moonshot research initiative dubbed Project Natick. The 40-foot-long capsule (pictured) holds 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage. According Microsoft, the hardware inside is cooled by specialized radiators that use technology originally developed ...
BlackRock leads $93M round into scale-out storage startup Qumulo
Qumulo Inc., a fast-growing storage startup that counts three of the world’s five largest companies as customers, today announced that it has nabbed a sizable $93 million funding round to keep expanding. The investment saw the participation of several high-profile backers. Wall Street giant BlackRock Inc. led the round with participation from the Goldman Sachs ...
On-demand scooter startups Lime and Bird reportedly raising $450M
The on-demand transportation market is slowly but surely expanding beyond traditional ride-hailing to other modes of travel. One of the most promising new frontiers is app-based scooter sharing, a new but already fiercely competitive segment. A number of separate reports from today indicate that Bird Rides Inc. and LimeBike Inc., two of this segment’s leading ...
Intel teases a mammoth 28-core chip and new display technology at Computex
Following Nvidia Corp.’s introduction of a new robotics chip at Computex yesterday, Intel Corp. this morning gave attendees of the closely watched computing event a look at several of its own upcoming products. The announcement was headlined by a yet-unnamed, single-socket central processing unit for personal computers. It packs no fewer than 28 processing cores ...
Microsoft debuts supersized Azure instances for memory-hungry applications
Microsoft Corp. today previewed new Azure cloud instances geared towards large, demanding analytics applications that require a lot of memory to store the data they’re crunching. The update centers on the company’s M family of RAM-optimized virtual machines, or computers emulated in software. Microsoft is expanding the lineup with new instances that offer as much as 12 terabytes ...