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Epic Games Inc. is not satisfied with the partial victory it won in its antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and is calling on a higher court to reexamine the ruling. On Sunday, the company filed a notice of appeal: “Notice is hereby …
Google’s X moonshot factory is helping Chile with its ambitious clean energy push
Alphabet Inc.’s X Development LLC, formerly known as Google X and now simply “X,” is working with the Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional in Chile to virtualize that country’s electrical transmission grid and develop new grid planning tools. The collaboration is meant to support …
Cloud analytics firm Sumo Logic delivers earnings beat
Cloud analytics software provider Sumo Logic Inc. just managed to beat expectations for its fiscal second-quarter results today, but the market was less than impressed as its stock fell sharply in after-hours trading. The company reported a loss before certain costs such …
Box CEO Aaron Levie defeats Starboard’s bid to oust him
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has failed in its bid to oust Box Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Aaron Levie and two other directors from the company’s 10-person board. The three directors easily beat Starboard’s candidates in a shareholder vote that followed …
Dell doubles down on ransomware protection with new software and services
Dell Technologies Inc. is stepping up to the challenge of helping organizations protect themselves against the rising threat of ransomware. It announced the launch of new software and services today that help accelerate virtual machine backup data availability, simplify the management of …
Amazon EKS Anywhere launches into general availability
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced that its Amazon EKS Anywhere service is generally available now. The service is an extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, which is a managed offering that makes it possible to run Kubernetes on AWS without …
Couchbase misses targets in its first-ever earnings report and its stock crumbles
Database software maker Couchbase Inc. saw its stock crumble away in after-hours trading after reporting a bigger-than-expected loss in its first earnings call since listing on the Nasdaq exchange in June. The company reported a fiscal second-quarter loss before certain costs such …
FireMon buys DisruptOps and welcomes back its former CEO
Network security policy management startup FireMon LLC is welcoming its former chief executive officer back into the fold as it expands into risk monitoring and incident response with the acquisition of fellow startup DisruptOps Inc. FireMon sells tools aimed at making firewalls more …
Palo Alto Networks adds Prisma Cloud tools to isolate application containers for security risks
Network security specialist Palo Alto Networks Inc. today updated its Prisma Cloud offering that’s used by enterprises to secure hybrid and multicloud environments. New features unveiled today include an advanced container image sandboxing capability the company said helps protect against container security risks. …
Car connectivity startup Aviva raises $26.5M in new funding
Automotive connectivity startup Aviva Technology Holding has driven itself into the limelight today, announcing a $26.5 million funding led by the founders of chipmaker Marvell Technology Group, Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai. Other prominent semiconductor industry investors also took part in …