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Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its “internet of things” service AWS IoT SiteWise has finally become generally available in its US East, US West, Frankfurt and Ireland regions. The managed service, which was launched in preview in November 2018, is aimed …
Docker partners with Amazon to speed up cloud application delivery
Software container company Docker Inc. said today it has partnered with cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services Inc. to speed up application delivery. In particular, the companies are creating a simplified workflow for developers that want to use Docker Compose to build …
MadHive announces $50M deal with SADA to expand its Google Cloud deployment
Digital TV advertising firm MadHive Inc. announced a five-year deal worth $50 million today with Google Cloud consultancy firm SADA Systems Inc. to expand its use of Google’s cloud for launching a range of new products and services. MadHive is already heavily reliant on …
Microsoft adds more APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft Corp. is adding more Cognitive Services application programming interfaces to its Azure cloud platform as it continues to expand its array of artificial intelligence services. Azure Cognitive Services is used by developers to add AI capabilities such as image recognition, speech …
Google and Canonical partner to support Flutter-based apps on Linux
Google LLC’s said today it’s forging a partnership with Canonical Ltd.’s Ubuntu Desktop team to support applications built using its Flutter framework on Linux-based computer systems. Flutter is a software framework that’s used by developers to build “native” apps on multiple operating …
Arm to spin off its two IoT businesses to SoftBank
Arm Holdings Plc said today it’s going to spin off its two “internet of things” chip businesses and transfer them to its parent company SoftBank Group Corp. Arm said it will hand over its IoT Platform and Treasure Data businesses to SoftBank …
DocuSign buys Liveoak Technologies to power its upcoming Notary tool
E-signature company DocuSign Inc. made another in a string of acquisitions today, announcing it’s buying Liveoak Technologies Inc., which sells software that lets people electronically prepare, sign and manage contract agreements. Liveoak uses a combination of identity verification, videoconferencing and other collaboration tools to enable people …
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield exits stealth
Post-quantum cryptography startup PQShield Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today armed with a suite of tools it says companies can use to safeguard computer systems and other devices from quantum-based attacks. It also announced £5.5 million ($6.8 million) in seed funding from …
Nvidia’s latest A100 graphics processor debuts on Google Cloud
Nvidia Corp. today announced the availability of its latest high-performance graphics processing unit on Google LLC’s public cloud platform. The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance family on Google’s …
VMware’s Contour becomes the CNCF’s latest incubation-level project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said today it has accepted Contour, an open-source ingress controller for Kubernetes, as its latest incubation-level project. Contour was first built by a company called Heptio Inc., which was later acquired by VMware Inc. It’s designed as …