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Google improves connectivity with upgrades to its cloud infrastructure
Google LLC today announced a series of upgrades to its global infrastructure services, giving customers more ways to connect to its cloud computing services. It also announced more deployment options for its cloud, plus new functionality for customers. The announcements were made by Brad Calder, Google Cloud’s vice president of engineering, in a blog post ...
RangeForce gets $16M in funding to help enterprises train cybersecurity teams
Cybersecurity training startup RangeForce said today it has armed itself with $16 million from an early-stage funding round led by Energy Impact Partners. Existing investor Trind Ventures also participated in the Series A round, along with new investors Paladin Capital Group and Cisco Systems Inc. The company said it will use the funding to accelerate its ...
Conversation intelligence startup Chorus.ai raises $45M in Series C funding
Conversation intelligence firm Chorus.ai Ltd. has topped up its piggy bank today after raising $45 million in a new round of funding that takes its total amount raised to $85.2 million. Georgian Partners led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital and Redpoint Ventures, and new investors Sozo Ventures. Chorus.ai is ...
AWS will help Vector deliver cleaner energy in Australia and New Zealand
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has formed a partnership with the New Zealand-based energy and gas distributor Vector Ltd. to create a new “internet of things” platform for the energy sector. The New Energy Platform, as it’s known, will be jointly developed by AWS and Vector as part of a new strategic alliance. The hope ...
Intel’s engineering chief Murthy Renduchintala departs following chip process delay
Intel Corp. Chief Engineering Officer Venkata Murthy Renduchintala seems to be taking the fall for the company’s failure to deliver on its next-generation products based on its seven-nanometer chipmaking process. The company, which revealed during its second-quarter earnings call last week that its 7nm chips are likely to be delayed, said today that Renduchintala (pictured) ...
HPE opens 5G test lab for telcos to validate next-generation networks
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. announced today that its new 5G network test lab for telecommunications providers is now open. The HPE 5G Lab, as it’s called, provides an environment for telcos to test and validate their 5G network products with HPE’s growing portfolio of 5G and services. HPE sees a big opportunity in 5G, and has ...
Box integrates with more Google cloud services
Box Inc. said today it’s expanding its partnership with Google LLC and its integrations with G Suite and Google Cloud services. The company said it plans to use Google Cloud for data storage and machine learning integrations with its Box Skills software framework, and will soon add support for Google Authenticator to enable some new ...
Intel’s stock falls as it delays its first 7-nanometer computer chips again
Intel Corp.’s stock took a beating in after-hours trading today after the company announced during in its second-quarter earnings call that its next-generation of computer chips will be delayed by six more months. The company said that it’s pushing back the launch date of its first central processing units built on a seven-nanometer process by approximately ...
Cybersecurity firm Check Point reports strong sales growth
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. saw its profit and revenue grow in the second quarter, though its earnings came in below analysts’ expectations. The Israel-based cybersecurity firm reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $196.4 million, or $1.38 per share, on revenue of $505.6 million, up 4% from a year ago. Wall Street was ...
Strong cloud growth helps Microsoft beat earnings expectations
Microsoft Corp. reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today that easily beat market expectations, once again showing strong growth within its cloud businesses. Still, the company’s shares dropped more than 2% in after-hours trading after it offered revenue guidance for the current quarter that came in lighter than anticipated. The Redmond-based firm reported diluted earnings of $1.46 ...