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NetApp acquires Israeli data protection startup Cognigo for $70M
Israeli media today reported that data storage company NetApp Inc. has quietly acquired a startup called D.Day Labs Ltd. that does business as Cognigo for about $70 million. NetApp hasn’t said anything officially, but Cognigo confirmed the news itself, first on Twitter and later in a blog posted to LinkedIn by Chief Executive Officer Guy Leibovitz. Cognigo, ...
Salesforce open-sources Lightning Web Components for application development
Salesforce.com Inc. is taking its developer embrace one step further by open-sourcing its Lightning Web Components framework. Lightning Web Components is, as the name suggests, a component-based framework that’s designed to simplify application development for regular business employees who lack programming expertise. It comprises a collection of tools that can be pieced together to build ...
Microsoft to build ‘most sustainable’ data centers ever in Sweden
Microsoft Corp. early today announced plans to develop two new “world-class” data centers in Sweden that it promises will be among the “most sustainable” ever built, completely powered by renewable energy sources with plans for zero-waste operations. The data centers will be located in the cities of Gävle and Sandviken, just north of the capital Stockholm. ...
China’s military is building its own operating system to replace Windows
As political tensions ratchet up between the U.S. and China amid an ongoing trade war that has had some big repercussions on the global technology industry, the Chinese military is reportedly looking to replace Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system with its own, internally built OS. The report comes by way of Kanwa Asian Defence, a ...
LinkedIn buys digital identity management firm Drawbridge
Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn Corp. has made another acquisition, buying a digital identity management company called Drawbridge Inc. for an undisclosed price. LinkedIn said today that it plans to use Drawbridge’s technology to improve its Marketing Solutions tools, which are used by marketers to create ads, generate leads and drive website traffic. Founded in 2011, Drawbridge ...
Workday beats earnings targets again but investors not so happy
Updated: Enterprise software company Workday Inc. has extended its positive streak, posting results today that came in above expectations and raising its outlook for the next quarter and full year. The company, which sells financial management and human capital management software, reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 43 cents per share ...
Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release
Pivotal Software Inc. today updated its Spring Runtime application development platform to address concerns some developers have about changes made by Oracle Corp. to the licensing terms of its popular Java Standard Edition programming language. Oracle’s Java is the most popular programming language around, so developers unsurprisingly were dismayed to learn the company had introduced ...
Report: Alibaba considers second listing in Hong Kong to raise $20B
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is weighing up the opportunity of getting more funding via a second listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange that could raise up to $20 billion. The company is said to be working with financial advisers on the offering, Bloomberg reported. It adds that Alibaba is aiming to file ...
AMD takes on Intel with 12-core Ryzen 9 computer chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is taking a few shots at Intel Corp. with the launch late Sunday of its long-awaited 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X microprocessor chip at the Computex event running in Taipei this week. The chipmaker reckons the new chip easily matches the capabilities of Intel’s best offerings, and even better, it’s available for less than ...
Nvidia announces its first AI platform for edge devices
Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform that can perceive, understand and act on data in real time without sending it to the cloud or a data center first. Delivering AI to edge devices such as smartphones, sensors and ...
