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Samsung Electronics Co. today reported a lower-than-expected rise in its fiscal second-quarter operating profit, with reduced smartphone sales dragging down its bottom line despite strong demand for its server chips. In its preliminary earnings guidance for the second quarter, the company estimated …
Celus grabs $25M in Series A funding to automate electronic circuit board design
German startup Celus GmbH announced today it has raised $25 million in a new round of funding to help further its goal of using artificial intelligence to streamline printed circuit board development. Today’s Series A round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital …
IBM buys observability startup Databand.ai to fix ‘bad’ data issues
IBM Corp. is boosting its data quality capabilities, announcing the acquisition today of a company called Databand.ai Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. Databand.ai is a provider of data observability software that’s used by companies to fix any problems with their data, such as …
GoTo buys Miradore to expand its mobile device management expertise
The flexible-work software provider GoTo Technologies Inc. said today it has acquired Finland-based startup Miradore Ltd. to strengthen its capabilities in the cloud-based device management market. GoTo, which was formerly known as LogMeIn until it rebranded earlier this year, sells a range …
US pushes Dutch firm ASML to stop selling older chipmaking machines to China
The United States government is reportedly pushing the Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment provider ASML Holding NV to stop selling any more of its gear to Chinese chipmakers. A report from Bloomberg today says the U.S. government is intent on curbing China’s rise …
IDC expects cloud spending to surpass noncloud infrastructure for first time this year
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments will surpass that of other scenarios for the first time later this year, according to a forecast by International Data Corp. In its latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud …
Alibaba Cloud’s Energy Expert helps customers reduce their carbon emissions
Alibaba Cloud is following rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud with the launch of a new tool for customers to measure the carbon emissions associated with their business. Energy Expert is a software-as-a-service offering offered by …
Amazon EKS Anywhere gets bare-metal server support
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports bare-metal servers, those without an operating system or applications installed, meaning customers can simplify and standardize Kubernetes deployments on their self-managed bare-metal infrastructure. Launched in September, Amazon EKS Anywhere is …
Gartner estimates PC sales to drop by almost 10% this year
Makers of personal computers are going to have to brace themselves for a sudden drop in sales, if Gartner Inc.’s latest forecast proves accurate. The analyst firm said in a report today that it believes global PC shipments will decline by 9.5% …
Micron offers weak earnings outlook, blaming soft demand for PCs and smartphones
Shares of the computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. are trading lower today after it warned that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue will likely fall some distance short of Wall Street’s estimates. Analysts had already been expecting a soft forecast, but the …