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Google to help European tech services giant ABB expand its cloud footprint
Google LLC has inked a major cloud deal involving the European technology services giant ABB Ltd. Under the terms of the deal, ABB Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary of ABB, said it plans to use Google Cloud to increase the scalability and reliance of its IT infrastructure part of an ongoing organizationwide initiative that’s known ...
Blackstone invests $400M in cybersecurity firm FireEye
Cloud cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. saw its stock jump more than 17% in late trading today after announcing a $400 million investment from the private equity firm Blackstone Group. Blackstone will also grab a seat on the FireEye’s board of directors, the company said. Blackstone, which is based in New York, is considered to be one ...
Google says RCS chat is now available worldwide, with encryption coming soon
Google LLC said today its Rich Communication Services messaging capability is now available worldwide, albeit with a few exceptions, and that it will add end-to-end encryption for some beta testers later this month. For those unfamiliar with RCS, it’s essentially a supercharged version of SMS text messages, upgraded for the 21st century. RCS brings SMS ...
Workday’s stock falls as COVID-19 weighs on growth prospects
Workday Inc. saw its stock fall more than 2% in after-hours trading despite posting a strong third quarter that easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts and raising its end-of-year guidance again. The company, which sells financial and human capital management software for large enterprises, reported a profit before certain costs of 86 cents per share. Revenue for ...
Facebook’s new Chrome API helps websites load faster and stay responsive
Facebook Inc.’s developer team says it worked with Google LLC to implement a new JavaScript application programming interface in the Chrome browser that can help website developers avoid the tradeoff between page load performance and input responsiveness. In a blog post today, Facebook developers Nate Schloss and Andrew Comminos outlined the problem they’re trying to ...
Amazon S3 Storage Lens helps customers optimize object storage costs
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that Amazon S3 customers are getting a new feature that improves visibility into object storage, delivering insights that can help them to discover anomalies, identify cost efficiencies and better apply best practices for data protection. Amazon S3 Storage Lens is described by the company as a “cloud storage analytics solution.” ...
Nvidia smashes earnings forecast with record revenue, but shares sag
Nvidia Corp. did just about everything it could today in reporting its third-quarter results, beating expectations on earnings and revenue, setting new records in the process, and following up with strong guidance for the next three month period. But its stock still fell more than 2% in after-hours trading, as investors noted that revenue from its ...
Google uses AI to digitize StoryCorps’ massive archive of audio interviews
Google LLC today shared how it has worked with the nonprofit organization StoryCorps Inc. to digitize an enormous archive of human story audio recordings using some of its most advanced artificial intelligence technologies. StoryCorps’ mission is to record, preserve and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. The project was founded back in 2003, ...
Google launches Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection to prevent DDoS attacks
Google LLC said today it’s advancing intelligent automation within its cloud network security controls as part of its ongoing mission to shore up its customers’ defenses. One of the biggest threats that many businesses face today is distributed denial-of-service attacks on their infrastructure. They’re designed to take websites and applications offline by overloading them with ...
Rollbar rolls out service to improve error detection for developers
Rollbar Inc. today updated its Continuous Code Improvement Platform with a new “automation-grade grouping engine” that it says can eliminate the daily noise and manual work involved in fixing broken software code, so developers can focus more of their time on building and updating their applications. Rollbar, whose platform provides “monitoring software-as-a-service” capabilities for software developers, ...