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As pandemic drags on, venture capitalists place bets on healthcare – and profits
The COVID-19 pandemic has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of venture capital investors, with the vast majority reporting they’re still investing at normal or near-normal levels. That’s according to a new survey released today by the financial technology firm Pitchbook Data Inc. and Collision from Home, a web summit event attracting more than 32,000 founders ...
Apple buys mobile device management startup Fleetsmith
Apple Inc. has bought a company called Fleetsmith Inc., which makes tools that help companies to deploy iPhones, iPads and Mac computers to their workers more easily. The announcement was made in a blog post today on Fleetsmith’s website. Although Apple primarily sells phones and computers to consumers, in recent years it has turned its attention to ...
AWS for everyone: Amazon jumps into low-code app development with Honeycode
Amazon Web Services Inc. is getting into the low-code software development game with today’s launch of its latest new service, Amazon Honeycode. It’s a fully managed service that enables enterprise employees to build mobile and web-based applications without any programming skills. Amazon said customers will be able to use Honeycode to create apps that leverage an AWS ...
Databricks buys Redash and debuts Delta Engine, a fast query tool for data lakes
Big-data company Databricks Inc. wants to help enterprises dig into their vast troves of data even faster, so today it launched a new, high-performance query engine for cloud-based data lakes. The company also announced the acquisition of an Israeli startup called Redash Ltd., which has built an open source dashboarding and visualization tool to help ...
Nutanix delivers a way for companies to manage cloud infrastructure remotely
Data center company Nutanix Inc. today introduced some new services that can help pandemic-affected companies to deploy, upgrade and troubleshoot their cloud infrastructure from anywhere, in order to support their remote workforces. The company said that with many employees now being forced to work from home, its customers are struggling to manage their cloud infrastructure as ...
Salesforce and Siemens partner on post-pandemic, touch-free office technology
Salesforce.com Inc. and Siemens AG are teaming up to deliver new, touch-free office products for employees returning to the workplace. Announced today, the partnership combines Salesforce’s Work.com products with smart infrastructure services delivered by Siemens, including its Comfy and Enlighted “internet of things” applications. Work.com was launched by Salesforce last month. The website is essentially ...
Qualcomm’s new RB5 robotics platform brings 5G connectivity to drones
Semiconductor maker Qualcomm Inc. has been busy working on specialized chips for artificial intelligence workloads, but unlike rival chipmakers Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp., it’s focusing more on smaller devices and connectivity. That’s the case with the company’s latest RB5 AI-enabled 5G robotics platform, which is designed to be used by a variety of robots ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $175M fund to promote racial equality
Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai today announced that the internet giant will spend more than $175 million on racial equality initiatives, with the main focus on financing black-owned businesses and supporting black entrepreneurs. The funding was announced alongside various other changes and commitments aimed at supporting equality and combat anti-black racism. Pichai (pictured) said ...
Amazon launches AWS Snowcone for data processing at the edge
Amazon Web Services Inc. today added a new product to its family of data migration devices, introducing a secure edge computing and data transfer device it calls AWS Snowcone. The small, ultraportable and rugged 4.5-pound device offers up to 8 terabytes of usable storage and is targeted at the rising number of edge computing workloads, where space, ...
Pensando Systems’ edge computing platform lands on HPE servers
Edge computing hardware startup Pensando Systems Inc. announced today that its flagship Distributed Services Platform is now available as a “factory-supported option” on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s ProLiant, Apollo and Edgeline Server Platforms. In addition, Pensando DSP is now available as well on the HPE Greenlake service that brings a cloudlike experience to on-premises infrastructure. Pensando ...