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Former Intel Corp. President Renee James is challenging her old company’s long-held leadership position in the data center. Her startup, Ampere Computing Inc., today launched two server processors that the company promises will one-up Intel in the efficiency department. The chips ship …
NetApp buys Kubernetes startup StackPointCloud to strengthen cloud portfolio
NetApp Inc. today announced that it has acquired StackPointCloud Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on making Kubernetes easier to use. Kubernetes is the go-to framework for managing software container clusters. The system has emerged as an essential component of modern cloud environments with …
Salesforce fills key gap in its Quip productivity platform with Quip Slides
Quip, the productivity platform that Salesforce.com Inc. acquired for $750 million in 2016, offers many of the same capabilities as Office 365. It includes document and spreadsheet editing tools as well as various collaboration features, but has so far lacked an equivalent to PowerPoint …
DarwinAI launches from stealth to automate artificial intelligence development
Artificial intelligence projects usually rely on existing code. Engineers sift through the AI models available from sources such as academic publications, pick the one deemed most suitable and then customize it to their requirements. Canada’s DarwinAI Inc. wants to reduce the amount of work …
Google debuts Cloud Inference API for large-scale time series analytics
Google LLC today unveiled Cloud Inference API, a new managed analytics service capable of carrying out hundreds of thousands of queries per second. The offering is designed for processing time series data, information made up of numerous individual measurements arranged chronologically in …
Apple reportedly taps LG to curb Samsung’s role in new iPhone production
Apple Inc. has reportedly tapped LG Display Co. to produce some of the displays for its latest iPhones in a bid to become less reliant on rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The information appeared today in South Korean business journal The Investor, which cited anonymous …
Scale and nuTonomy open-source massive AI dataset for self-driving cars
Scale Labs Inc. and Aptiv PLC’s nuTonomy group, two influential players in the autonomous vehicle ecosystem, today open-sourced a massive research dataset designed to aid self-driving car initiatives. Autonomous vehicles rely on artificial intelligence models to make navigation decisions. Those AI models, in turn, …
Uber looks to boost self-driving car initiative with new $150M Toronto investment
Uber Technologies Inc. has allocated $150 million to growing its engineering operations in Toronto as part of a newly announced expansion that will boost its self-driving car initiative and other key projects. The plan was made public today in conjunction with a visit …
Report: Adobe may acquire Marketo in deal potentially worth over $1.8B
In an interview with SiliconANGLE last year, Marketo Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Lucas predicted that the marketing technology industry would see significant consolidation through 2019. It now looks Lucas and his company may find themselves at the center of this consolidation. …
Salesforce targets business users with two new low-code development tools
Salesforce.com Inc. is bolstering its lineup of software development services with two new tools that enable nontechnical business users to build custom applications. Introduced today, the offerings facilitate what’s known as low-code development. It’s an emerging approach that involves using ready-made, reusable components to …