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Zoom Video Communications Inc. said today it’s planning to enable users to integrate third-party applications within its video collaboration platform by the end of the year. The new “Zapps” are applications that can be used directly within Zoom, thereby eliminating the need …
Frontegg debuts its ‘SaaS-as-a-service platform’
Frontegg Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with the launch of a platform designed to help companies fast-track software-as-a-service development and innovation, backed by $5 million in seed funding. The seed funding round was led by Pitango, with participation from i3 Equity …
Nokia is moving its IT infrastructure to Google Cloud
Google LLC has landed a major customer in the shape of the Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia Corp., which said today it’s migrating its entire on-premises information technology infrastructure onto Google Cloud, including all of its data centers, servers and software applications. Nokia …
Facebook’s Open Catalyst Project uses AI to find new ways to store renewable energy
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit said today it has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Chemical Engineering on a collaborative project to use AI to accelerate quantum mechanical simulations. The idea is to discover new “electrocatalysts” that can provide …
With an app for small farmers, Agrolly wins IBM’s Call for Code Global Challenge
IBM Corp. said today the creators of an application that helps to connect and provide support for small farmers around the world have won the grand prize of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. Call for Code is an annual contest …
Xilinx and Spline.ai use AI to enable COVID-19 detection at the edge
Chipmaker Xilinx Inc. said today it has teamed up with an artificial intelligence startup called Spline.ai to create a medical X-ray classification model that it says can improve prediction rates for COVID-19 and pneumonia using AI at the edge. The model was …
Google adds new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance
Google LLC said today it’s adding a bunch of new partners to its BeyondCorp Alliance, which brings together various security firms and data management providers to help extend its concept of the “zero-trust” security model. BeyondCorp is a security framework that involves …
Multicloud networking startup Alkira raises $54M funding round
Networking-as-a-service startup Alkira Inc. said today it has raised $54 million in a funding round that brings its total amount raised to $76 million. Koch Disruptive Technologies led the Series B round, with participation from previous investors Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, …
Palo Alto Networks beefs up its multicloud security platform Prisma Cloud
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today it’s adding four new cloud security modules to Prisma Cloud, a multicloud security offering that enables developers to block vulnerabilities during the application development and deployment process. Prisma Cloud is a relatively new service that’s made …
Report: AMD in talks to acquire custom chipmaker Xilinx for $30B
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. reportedly plans to acquire rival chipmaker Xilinx Inc. in a deal that could be valued at more than $30 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported late today that AMD is in advanced talks to buy Xilinx, and that the …