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Google LLC today published a new resource for developers interested in building apps for the company’s Chrome OS, the operating system that powers its ecosystem of Chromebook computers. In a blog post, Iein Valdez, head of Chrome OS developer relations, said Chromebooks, …
Automated cybersecurity startup Adaptive Shield exits stealth
Cybersecurity startup A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. emerged from stealth mode today armed with $4 million in a seed funding round from Vertex Ventures Israel. Adaptive Shield sells technology that automates security for commonly used software-as-a-service applications. It works by proactively seeking out and …
Microsoft quickly drops its Dataflex low-code applications brand
Microsoft Corp. has dropped the Dataflex brand name that it chose for a new relational database service that lets workers create, deploy and manage low-code applications and chatbots within Microsoft Teams. Microsoft chose Dataflex as the new name for its Common Data Service …
Mozilla lays off 250 staff as its revenue dries up
The Mozilla Corporation said today it’s laying off ab0ut 250 of its staff in an attempt to cut costs as it struggles to deal with the financial impact of COVID-19. Mozilla Chief Executive Mitchell Baker (pictured) announced the layoffs in a blog …
Amazon and Google announce major cloud customer wins
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC today both emphasized some of the gains to be made by customers migrating their most critical business operations to their respective cloud platforms. Amazon said today the fast food restaurant chain Jack in the Box …
Matillion debuts no-code data loading tool for Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse
Cloud data integration provider Matillion Ltd. today made its free data ingestion tool available with Snowflake Computing Inc.’s Partner Connect, with an aim to help businesses quickly and easily load critical business data from a wide range of sources to Snowflake’s popular cloud …
IDC study reveals wide-ranging COVID-19 impact on tech spending
A new study commissioned by Google LLC on how the coronavirus pandemic will affect information technology budgets has found that 60% of enterprises surveyed expect either no change or to increase their spending this year. The remaining 40% in the survey carried …
Pentagon asks for more time to consider JEDI contract reevaluation
The U.S. Department of Defense has requested a 30-day extension before it makes a final decision about its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project. The JEDI project entails building cloud computing infrastructure for the Pentagon that will link together its various …
Researchers deploy Nvidia’s latest AI systems to battle COVID-19
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging described today how they’re using Nvidia Corp.’s latest artificial intelligence systems to aid their fight against COVID-19. The researchers are using AI to create new models that can segment and …
Huawei is running out of chips for its high-end smartphones
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said today it’s facing a critical shortage of smartphone chips as a result of U.S. sanctions and will have to stop making new devices by mid-September if it doesn’t gain access to American suppliers. The company, which is one …