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ServiceNow to integrate sentiment data from Qualtrics
ServiceNow Inc. said today it’s teaming up with the experience management provider Qualtrics International Inc. to bring more sentiment data from customers into its customer and information technology workflows. The partnership is all about improving customer service through “empathy,” ServiceNow said. The idea is to help companies to act quickly on customer insights, which in ...
LG Electronics quits making smartphones after years of losses
LG Electronics Inc. said today that it’s exiting the smartphone business after years of operating at a loss. The decision comes after an announcement in January that LG was exploring all possible options for the flailing division, which is said to have accumulated losses of about $4.5 billion over the last six years. The move ...
No fooling: Microsoft cloud outage takes Azure, Teams and Office 365 offline
Microsoft Corp. was hit by a massive cloud outage today that took most of its internet services offline. Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, as well as Teams, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Xbox Live and Bing, were all inaccessible due to the outage. Even the Azure Status page was reportedly taken offline. The first reports of the ...
IoT observability platform startup Memfault raises $8.5M in early-stage funding
A startup called Memfault Inc. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $8.5 million in early-stage funding for its cloud-based observability platform for “internet of things” devices. The Series A round was led by Partech and also included the participation of existing investor Uncork Capital. It brings the startup’s total amount raised to more than ...
Micron’s stock jumps on strong earnings and bullish forecast
Semiconductor firm Micron Technology Inc. delighted Wall Street once again today with strong second-quarter revenue and profit that was in line with a revised forecast it provided earlier this month. The company also posted a strong outlook for the next quarter that came in above the analyst consensus. It reported a profit before certain costs such as ...
Report: Micron and Western Digital are competing to buy flash memory supplier Kioxia
Micron Technology Inc. and Western Digital Corp. are both reportedly interested in buying the Japanese flash memory maker Kioxia Holdings Corp. The Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying that Micron and Western Digital are both exploring possible deals that could value Kioxia at around $30 billion. It’s believed that the companies ...
Microsoft wins potential $22B contract to supply HoloLens AR headsets to US Army
Microsoft Corp. has won a multibillion-dollar contract to supply customized HoloLens augmented reality headsets to the U.S. Army. The contract, announced by the Army today, could be worth as much as $21.88 billion and will see Microsoft supply more than 120,000 headsets over the next 10 years. Microsoft has reportedly been developing the Integrated Visual ...
Cisco wants to foster employee well-being with Personal Insights in Webex
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s bringing more insights to its Webex communications and collaboration platform that it believes will help people work smarter and combat burnout. The networking giant announced People Insights on the second day of its virtual Cisco Live digital event, saying it will help Webex users set personal goals around their meetings, ...
Linux Foundation hosts RareCamp open-source platform to democratize gene therapy
The OpenTreatments Foundation said today that its open-source RareCamp software will be hosted by the Linux Foundation, as part of its effort to make that platform available to anyone to kickstart the creation of new gene therapies for rare genetic diseases. The idea with the RareCamp software is to decentralize drug development by putting the ...
Oracle announces Cloud Lift migration service for moving workloads to its cloud
Oracle Corp. signaled that its cloud infrastructure is ready for prime time today with launch of a new migration service for its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. The new service will provide access to technical tools and cloud engineering resources that are meant to help companies to streamline the often very complicated process of moving key workloads ...