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Google commits to higher stability with Enterprise APIs
Google LLC is committing to ensuring the highest level of stability and reliability with its enterprise application programming interfaces with new Google Enterprise APIs announced today. The online services giant says the APIs are governed by a more stringent set of requirements about how and when Google will make changes to them, with a goal ...
Box brings e-signatures to its content cloud with Box Sign
Box Inc. is building out its content cloud with the addition of an important new capability. The company said today it’s rolling out Box Sign, a native e-signature capability within Box that will give users the ability to electronically sign contracts and request signatures from others. Box said Box Sign enables unlimited signatures and comes ...
Arm researchers have created a flexible 32-bit computer chip made from plastic
Researchers from Arm Holdings Ltd. and PragmatIC Semiconductor Ltd. say they have created the first true computer chip that uses plastic rather than silicon as its base material. By using plastic, the researchers said, the chip is more flexible and could potentially usher in a new era called the “internet of everything” where microprocessors are ...
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Intel delivers another strong quarter, but investors flee on near-term profit concerns
Intel Corp.’s stock lost almost 2% in late trading today as investors digested an eventful second-quarter earnings report and analyst call today. The American chip giant actually performed well, reporting revenue and profit ahead of both its own and Wall Street’s forecast thanks to strong sales of chips for personal computers. It also raised its ...
GE taps into Dell’s APEX infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio
Industrial giant General Electric Co. plans to leverage Dell Technologies Inc.’s information-technology-as-a-service offerings going forward in order to scale up its tech infrastructure across the 170 countries it operates in. Today’s news is a big boost for Dell, which launched its APEX infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio in 2019. Under APEX, customers essentially rent their technology infrastructure from Dell ...
Google scores more cloud customer wins with Home Depot and Symphony
The new cloud customers keep piling up for Google LLC, and today it’s the turn of The Home Depot Inc., which has announced it will extend an existing partnership with Google Cloud to use more of its cloud computing infrastucture and services. Just a day earlier, Symphony Communications Services LLC, which provides a communications platform ...
Atom Computing emerges with quantum computing system made from atoms and controlled by lasers
Quantum computing startup Atom Computing Inc. said today it has secured a new $15 million funding round to help it push forward with what it believes is the most pragmatic approach to scaling quantum machines. Along with the Series A round, led by Venrock, Innovation Ventures and Prelude Ventures, the company has also hired a new ...
Zoom adds native app integrations and virtual event hosting to its platform
Zoom Video Communications Inc. is hoping to make workers more productive with the general availability of Zoom Apps, which enables people to use dozens of third-party tools from directly within its platform. The new offering was announced today alongside a new online event hosting platform, called Zoom Events, that enables businesses to stand up interactive, ...
Qualtrics posts surprise profit and ups its forecast to $1B in annual revenue
Qualtrics International Inc. is taking well to the single life. The experience management platform provider, which recently split from SAP SE, posted a surprise second-quarter profit today as it topped Wall Street’s expectations on revenue for the second quarter in a row. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of four ...
Nvidia accelerates AI inference performance with TensorRT 8 boosts
Nvidia Corp. is speeding up artificial intelligence inference with the launch of the next generation of its TensorRT software today. TensorRT 8 is the eighth iteration of Nvidia’s popular AI software that’s used for high-performance deep learning inference. The software combines a powerful deep learning optimizer with a runtime that delivers low-latency, high-throughput inference for ...