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Software-defined wide-area networking firm Aryaka Networks Inc. has made its first-ever acquisition as it bids to beef up the defensive capabilities of its platform. The company said today that it has closed on a deal to buy German secure access service edge …
AWS announces Amazon FinSpace for analyzing financial data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is targeting financial analysts with a new, purpose-built data analytics tool that it says will enable them to perform their jobs much more effectively than before. Amazon FinSpace is a new service announced today that works by aggregating, …
Amazon debuts CloudFront Functions for running lightweight code at the edge
Amazon Web Services Inc. is beefing up the capabilities of its Amazon CloudFront content delivery network, enabling more lightweight customizations for users at the network edge. Amazon Cloudfront is a fast content delivery network service that’s used by customers to deliver data, …
Intel to spend $3.5B on New Mexico fabs and $600M on chip R&D centers in Israel
Updated Intel Corp. confirmed today it’s planning to invest $600 million to expand its research and development facilities in Israel, in addition to the $10 billion it has already committed toward building a new chip manufacturing plant in the country. The announcement …
Facebook’s DINO enables self-supervised learning for computer vision AI
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today announced more breakthroughs, this time in the areas of self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning for computer vision. Self-supervised learning in AI, also known as unsupervised learning, refers to teaching computers, or AI models, to perform …
Twitter squawks as user growth and guidance come up light
Twitter Inc. took a beating in after-hours trading today, its stock down more than 11% after missing expectations on user growth and offering lower-than-expected guidance for the next three months. That took the sheen off an otherwise solid performance. Twitter reported a first-quarter …
Atlassian beats forecast again as more customers switch to cloud subscriptions
Developer and collaboration software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. is flying high today after delivering third-quarter financial results that sailed past Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 48 cents per share on revenue of $569 …
ServiceNow’s stock falls sharply after it added fewer large contracts in Q1
Cloud automation software company ServiceNow Inc. delivered strong revenue growth as it beat expectations with its first quarter financial results today, but its stock fell after-hours when it said it added fewer big contracts than in previous quarters. The company reported earnings …
Qualcomm delivers 52% revenue growth as it welcomes its new CEO
Smartphone chip giant Qualcomm Inc. delivered a blowout quarter today with earnings and revenue that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations combined with triple-digit operating income growth. The company reported a second-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.90 per share …
Judge blocks latest move to dismiss Amazon’s JEDI cloud contract protest
Amazon Web Services Inc. won a small victory in its ongoing legal fight to block the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to rival Microsoft Corp. when a judge today declined to dismiss its protest lawsuit. …