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Box caps off its first full year of profitability
Cloud storage company Box Inc. had lots to celebrate today after capping off its first full year of profitability. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 7 cents per share on revenue of $183.6 million, up 12% from a year ago. Wall Street had been looking for a profit of ...
D-Wave launches Leap 2 cloud service for testing quantum applications
D-Wave Systems Inc., a provider of quantum computing systems, software and services, today launched a new cloud service called Leap 2 aimed at helping developers build “hybrid quantum applications” that run on both computing architectures. Leap 2 extends the capabilities of D-Wave’s original Leap Quantum Application Environment service that was launched in 2018 for developers to ...
Dell debuts subscription model for hybrid cloud deployments on VxRail
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced a new subscription-based offer for hybrid cloud deployments with its Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance. The offer includes the hardware and software, plus services such as support, deployment and asset recovery, that are necessary for rapid hybrid cloud deployments. Dell said the offering is the “fastest hybrid cloud deployment” model in ...
Amazon announces Amazon Common Software for integrating SDKs
Amazon.com Inc. today launched a preview of “Amazon Common Software for Devices,” meant to make it easier for developers to integrate the Amazon Device software development kit with their devices. The software is already running on Amazon devices such as the Echo Dot smart speaker and the Amazon Smart Oven. It helps by streamlining the ...
Salesforce announces co-CEO Keith Block’s departure
Salesforce.com Inc. announced today that it’s making some key leadership changes and acquiring the industry-specific cloud and mobile software provider Vlocity Inc. for about $1.33 billion. The company, which sells customer relationship management software to enterprises, said its co-Chief Executive Officer Keith Block (pictured) is stepping down from the role. His departure means that Marc ...
Anti-toxicity firm L1ght raises $15M to fight online abuse
An Israeli startup called L1ght that has created what it calls “anti-toxicity” software for online platforms said today it has raised $15 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by Mangrove Capital Partners and Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Western Technology Investment. L1ght, which was formerly known as AntiToxin Technologies Inc., has ...
Microsoft’s Azure Sphere service for IoT devices launches in general availability
Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited Azure Sphere security service, aimed at protecting “internet of things” devices, finally hit general availability today, almost two years after launching in preview. The company introduced Azure Sphere, which is based on a Microsoft-built Linux operating system, in March 2018. At the time, it said the technology came from a Microsoft Research project ...
HP announces share buyback program to thwart Xerox takeover attempt
HP Inc. saw its stock jump more than 4% in after-hours trading after it launched an aggressive plan to return up to $16 billion to its shareholders in the next three years and saying it will consider a possible combination with Xerox Corp. Still, the plan to return about half of HP’s market capitalization to ...
Intel debuts next-generation hardware for 5G networks
Intel Corp. is pushing to be at the forefront of the rollout of next-generation 5G networks, launching new hardware and software today, including its first 10-nanometer system-on-chip for wireless base stations. The new Intel Atom P5900 processor is the company’s first SoC designed for wireless base stations, which are radio receivers and transmitters that serve as ...
Databricks simplifies data management for BI and ML
Big-data company Databricks Inc. wants to help customers simplify data management for business intelligence and machine learning operations in order to eliminate silos. To do so, the company today is announcing a new “Databricks Ingest” platform that enables customers to load data into a single repository where it can be made available for both BI ...