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Tesla to open R&D center in China later this year
Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc. is looking to hire some local talent in China to staff a new research and development center it will build in Shanghai. The announcement today comes just days after Tesla shipped its first locally made Model 3 vehicles in China. The new R&D center will enable Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon ...
Google parent Alphabet tops $1T market capitalization
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. became the fourth U.S. firm to hit a $1 trillion market capitalization today, Reuters reported. Alphabet now joins Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. as one of three American firms worth more than $1 trillion. Apple hit the milestone in June 2018 and currently has a market value of $1.4 ...
Google announces Premium Support plan for cloud customers
Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan for enterprises running mission-critical workloads on its cloud infrastructure. Google said the cost of the Premium Support plan will be based on each customer’s monthly spend, but it certainly won’t be cheap: Prices start ...
Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending will hit $3.9T this year
Gartner Inc. says global spending on information technology will rise to $3.9 trillion in 2020, up just a hair from $3.8 trillion last year, driven chiefly by enterprises buying more cloud software and the end of support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 7 operating system. But some parts of the massive budget are growing much faster. ...
Mozilla lays off 70 staff in response to declining revenue
Firefox browser maker Mozilla Corp. today announced it’s laying off about 70 staff members in order to buy itself more time to start generating revenue from its newest products. Mozilla Chairwoman and interim Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Baker made the announcement in a blog post, saying the layoffs were necessary in order for the nonprofit ...
AtScale speeds up data accessibility with new release
Aiming to speed up the accessibility of companies’ vast data troves, data warehouse virtualization company AtScale Inc. today updated its flagship Adaptive Analytics platform. AtScale’s platform serves as an abstraction layer for Hadoop clusters and other back-end data stores such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse. The technology makes these ...
Equinix acquires bare-metal infrastructure startup Packet
Data center company Equinix Inc. today said it’s buying bare metal cloud infrastructure startup Packet Hosting Inc. in a move aimed at allowing it to speed up the deployment of interconnected edge services. Equinix is a provider of colocation services through data centers facilities scattered across the world. It rents out this capacity to companies that ...
Google buys ‘no code’ application development startup AppSheet
Google LLC today beefed up its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Appsheet, which sells tools that enable so-called “citizen developers” to build data-based applications. AppSheet sells a “no code” application development platform that gives Google an easy way to help companies create mobile apps without needing to hire teams of developers. It works by ...
GitLab announces key executive hires ahead of public stock debut later this year
DevOps company GitLab Inc. today announced a couple of key executive hires as it prepares the ground for a planned initial public offering later this year. The appointments were announced this morning at the company’s annual GitLab Commit user conference in San Francisco, where the company also revealed it will hit $100 million in annual ...
CNCF launches Kubernetes bug bounty program
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced the creation of a new bug bounty program for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool. The goal of the program is to secure what is one of the most widely used open-source technologies in the enterprise today. Software containers are used to host modern applications that can run ...