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Apple will partially reopen 100 US stores this week
Apple Inc. said Tuesday it will reopen about 100 of its retail stores in the United States this week, though heavy restrictions will remain in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The iPhone maker reopened some U.S. stores on May 11 and currently has 25 stores open for business across the nation. But ...
Data collaboration firm Cinchy raises $10M funding round
Data collaboration company Cinchy is ready for its next stage of growth after landing $10 million in a new round of funding. Information Venture Partners led the Series A round, which also included the participation of BDC, ScaleUp Ventures, Techstars, and Manulife Investment Management. Cinchy sells a “Data Fabric” platform that enables multiple systems and ...
Spectrm lands $3M Series A round for its conversational marketing platform
Spectrm Ltd., a German startup that sells an artificial intelligence-based marketing platform for instant messenger tools, announced today it has raised $3 million in a Series A round of funding led by Runa Capital. Spectrm sells a platform that automates personalized, one-on-one conversations with customers over messenger apps such as Facebook Messenger. The platform is ...
Samsung boosts mobile device protection with new security chip
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it has developed a new “secure element chip” that will help to protect sensitive data stored on mobile devices. The new chip, called the S3FV9RR, will be offered as a standalone solution along with its associated security software. The Common Criteria organization, which certifies the security level of information technology hardware, ...
Nvidia’s data center business tops $1B in revenue for the first time
Computer graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. said Thursday its key data center business recorded its best-ever quarter, with revenue topping $1 billion for the first time. That came as the company reported a first-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.80 per share on revenue of $3.08 billion, up 39% from the same ...
Data analytics firm Splunk sees 81% jump in quarterly cloud software bookings
Updated: Data analytics company Splunk Inc. saw its stock rise after-hours despite reporting first-quarter revenue that came in below market expectations. The company, which sells software enterprises use to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data in real time, reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 56 cents per ...
Solo.io intros API management tools for the open-source Istio service mesh
Cloud-native software company Solo.io Inc. today is making available what it says is the industry’s first Istio Developer Portal, which aims to streamline the onboarding process for developers in order to improve experiences and productivity. Solo sells software that helps companies address the challenges of implementing microservices, which are the components of modern, containerized applications that ...
Apple and Google launch COVID-19 contact tracing technology
Apple Inc. and Google LLC today officially launched their COVID-19 contact tracing technology for public health agencies across the globe. Some 22 countries and three U.S. states have expressed an interest in using the Exposure Notifications System application programming interface, which is designed to be used by PHAs to build their own contact tracing applications. ...
Intel buys Rivet Networks for its high-performance Wi-Fi technology
Intel Corp. said today it has acquired a company called Rivet Networks LLC, maker of the Killer Networking line of Wi-Fi network interface cards used in laptops from brands such as Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc. and Alienware. Intel didn’t reveal how much it is paying to acquire Rivet Networks. It said the company’s Killer ...
Box enables zero-trust-based access to its content from any device
Cloud content management and collaboration company Box Inc. is helping customers to enable “zero-trust” policy enforcement by revamping its Box Device Trust service. Box officials said the sudden shift to working at home has created a new security challenge for organizations, which need to keep their most valuable content secure while ensuring it can be accessed by ...