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AWS launches its Windows Migration Acceleration Program
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of its Migration Acceleration Program for Windows, which was released in preview at AWS re:Invent 2019 last December. AWS MAP for Windows is a service that’s meant to help customers execute large-scale migrations of Windows-based workloads to AWS. It offers access to services such as prescriptive ...
Foursquare merges with Factual to create a location data powerhouse
Location intelligence company Foursquare Labs Inc. said today it’s merging with a data location provider called Factual Inc. The new company will have a combined revenue of about $150 million per year, but details of the transaction were not disclosed. Foursquare was founded back in 2009 and was originally known as a location-centered social network, ...
Report: Apple close to acquiring virtual reality startup NextVR
Apple Inc. is reportedly close to acquiring a virtual reality company called NextVR Inc., which specializes in creating VR video content based on special events such as sports matches and musical performances. NextVR, based in Orange County, California, creates VR content that can then be viewed on consumer headsets such as Facebook Inc.’s Oculus, the ...
Huawei commits to patent nonaggression with the Open Invention Network
Chinese smartphone manufacturer and telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. raised a few eyebrows today when it announced it’s joining the Open Invention Network, which is the world’s largest “patent nonaggression” community. The OIN’s stated mission is to enable Linux programmers to develop and make money from open-source software without worrying about any legal challenges relating ...
Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services gets new voice styles
Microsoft Corp. today added new “voice styles” to Azure Cognitive Services, its cloud-based suite of application programming interfaces and software development kits that developers use to create apps with intelligent voice capabilities. The new styles — newscast, customer service and digital assistant – are designed to help developers tailor the voice of their apps and ...
Google debuts Memorystore for Memcached in beta test
Google LLC is making life easier for people using the open-source Memcached in-memory data store, announcing today a new, fully managed service that reduces the burden of infrastructure management and maintenance. Memcached is a popular in-memory data store that’s used to accelerate workloads such as application programming interface rate limiting, gaming leaderboards, session stores, streaming analytics ...
Autonomous driving startup Phantom AI raises $22M
Autonomous driving startup Phantom AI says it’s on a mission to democratize the use of driver assistance and safety technology after announcing today it has raised $22 million in a new round of funding. Celeres Investments led the Series A round, which also saw the participation of Ford Motor Co. and KT Corp., the largest telecommunications ...
AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC processor chips to power IBM’s cloud servers
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market, teaming up with IBM Corp. to make its latest central processing units available on IBM Cloud’s bare-metal servers. The announcement is yet another milestone for AMD, which has in the last year has managed to break rival chipmaker Intel Corp.’s stranglehold ...
Rancher Labs’ new release scales Kubernetes to the network edge
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. is looking to extend deployments of Kubernetes beyond data centers and cloud-native architectures. The company sells a lightweight Kubernetes distribution called K3s that’s meant to address growing demand for smaller clusters running on x86, Arm64 and Armv7 processors in edge computing environments. Kubernetes is the most popular tool ...
Amazon’s Detective service for investigating security incidents now generally available
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its new security service Amazon Detective is now generally available, three months after it was launched in preview. Announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas in December, Amazon Detective uses artificial intelligence, statistical analysis and graph theory to boost alert systems. It does so by providing details ...