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Report: US threatens to sanction Chinese chipmaker SMIC
The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly considering banning exports to China’s largest computer chip maker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., in the latest escalation of an ongoing trade war between the two countries. SMIC’s shares fell almost 23% in Hong Kong on Monday, wiping about 31 billion Hong Kong dollars ($4 billion) off of its ...
Cisco and ServiceNow collaborate on workplace contact tracing
Cisco Systems Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. are working together to help customers looking to get back to work improve their contact tracing efforts. The plan is to integrate Cisco’s indoor location services platform, called DNA Spaces, with ServiceNow’s Safe Workplace Suite, which includes a new contact tracing application. Contact tracing is seen as one of ...
DocuSign’s revenue jumps 45% as COVID-19 boosts demand for services, but stock dives
E-signature company DocuSign Inc. posted its fiscal second-quarter results today, easily beating Wall Street’s expectations, but the strong performance wasn’t enough to prevent its stock diving in after-hours trading. The company is one of several tech firms to have seen demand for its services rise thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, though a broad market selloff ...
Zuora’s stock falls 20% on weak earnings guidance
Cloud subscription management services company Zuora Inc.’s stock lost almost a fifth of its value in after-hours trading after a weak earnings forecast today despite posting fiscal second-quarter results that beat expectations. The company, which sells a software-as-a-service offering that’s used to automate businesses’ subscription order-to-cash operations in real-time, reported it broke even on revenue of ...
Cloudera beats expectations as it taps into hybrid, multicloud markets
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. posted fiscal second-quarter results today that beat Wall Street’s expectations, but the strong performance wasn’t enough to prevent its stock falling slightly in after-hours trading. The company, which sells data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics software to enterprises, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 10 ...
MongoDB beats quarterly expectations with strong revenue growth
Database company MongoDB Inc. did much better than anticipated today as it reported its fiscal second-quarter results, beating expectations on profit and revenue and driving the company’s stock up 5% in after-hours trading. The company, which sells an open-source, document-orientated database that’s used by enterprises to power big-data applications and other intensive workloads, reported a ...
TiKV graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for container applications
TiKV is now the latest project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s meant to help advance Kubernetes and other container technologies. TiKV is an open-source distributed transactional key-value database that’s optimized for stateful applications running in software containers, which are used to host the components of modern apps that can run in ...
‘Avatar’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ visual effects creator Weta Digital chooses AWS for hosting
Weta Digital Ltd. said today it’s going “all-in” on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud infrastructure to host its visual effects tools and collaborative workflow platforms. Weta Digital is a New Zealand-based company that provides animation and compositing software tools for visual effects artists. Its software is used to create immersive, computer-generated worlds for TV, ...
Postman launches web client of its API development platform
Postman Inc. said today it’s making its popular namesake application programming interface development environment available via the web. Postman sells what it calls a “collaboration platform” for API development that’s used by developers to test API calls and validate that their responses are accurate. APIs are key to the ability of applications to tap into ...
Microsoft creates a new tool to spot ‘deepfake’ videos and images
Microsoft Corp. today launched a new tool designed to combat deepfakes. Deepfakes are faked computer-manipulated images or videos that have been altered in hard-to-detect ways to make someone appear to have said something they didn’t or look like they were in places that they weren’t. They’re often used to defame notable people, and their widespread use ...