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Facebook finally signs up as a platinum member of The Linux Foundation
Facebook Inc. said today it has signed up as a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit technology consortium that supports hundreds of open-source software projects. The social media giant is one of the best-known contributors to the world of open-source software, so its membership could be considered long overdue. The company contributes to ...
Amazon makes its quantum computing service Braket generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its Amazon Braket quantum computing service is now generally available. Announced in preview at the AWS Re:Invent conference in December, Amazon Braket is a fully managed service that lets developers, researchers and scientists play around with quantum machines from three different hardware providers. Quantum computers are a rapidly advancing ...
Workday and IBM team up to help employees get back to work amid COVID-19
IBM Corp. and Workday Inc. are teaming up on a joint offering that aims to help companies plan and monitor their workplaces as they reopen their physical premises for business. Announced today, the approach combines Workday’s planning capabilities with IBM’s tools for analyzing employee, health and workplace data. At the core of the new Return to ...
Cisco’s stock falls on poor guidance as pandemic hits sales
Cisco Systems Inc. said in its fourth-quarter results today that it has finally achieved its goal of deriving half of its revenue from its software and services offerings. But Cisco’s stock fell 6% in after-hours trading after the networking giant offering light guidance for the next quarter and saying Chief Financial Officer Kelly Kramer will ...
Google launches new resource for Chrome OS developers
Google LLC today published a new resource for developers interested in building apps for the company’s Chrome OS, the operating system that powers its ecosystem of Chromebook computers. In a blog post, Iein Valdez, head of Chrome OS developer relations, said Chromebooks, along with traditional laptops, are seeing a renaissance of sorts thanks to the ...
Automated cybersecurity startup Adaptive Shield exits stealth
Cybersecurity startup A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. emerged from stealth mode today armed with $4 million in a seed funding round from Vertex Ventures Israel. Adaptive Shield sells technology that automates security for commonly used software-as-a-service applications. It works by proactively seeking out and fixing misconfigurations in the global settings and user privileges of SaaS platforms such ...
Microsoft quickly drops its Dataflex low-code applications brand
Microsoft Corp. has dropped the Dataflex brand name that it chose for a new relational database service that lets workers create, deploy and manage low-code applications and chatbots within Microsoft Teams. Microsoft chose Dataflex as the new name for its Common Data Service governance framework that sits at the heart of its Power Platform business analytics ...
Mozilla lays off 250 staff as its revenue dries up
The Mozilla Corporation said today it’s laying off ab0ut 250 of its staff in an attempt to cut costs as it struggles to deal with the financial impact of COVID-19. Mozilla Chief Executive Mitchell Baker (pictured) announced the layoffs in a blog post, just hours after notifying the affected employees. Baker, who became CEO in ...
Amazon and Google announce major cloud customer wins
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC today both emphasized some of the gains to be made by customers migrating their most critical business operations to their respective cloud platforms. Amazon said today the fast food restaurant chain Jack in the Box Inc. is going “all-in” on its cloud platform, moving the entirety of its ...
Matillion debuts no-code data loading tool for Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse
Cloud data integration provider Matillion Ltd. today made its free data ingestion tool available with Snowflake Computing Inc.’s Partner Connect, with an aim to help businesses quickly and easily load critical business data from a wide range of sources to Snowflake’s popular cloud data warehouse service. U.K.-based Matillion offers extract/transform/load services for cloud data warehouses such as ...