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Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has formed a partnership with the New Zealand-based energy and gas distributor Vector Ltd. to create a new “internet of things” platform for the energy sector. The New Energy Platform, as it’s known, will be jointly developed …
Intel’s engineering chief Murthy Renduchintala departs following chip process delay
Intel Corp. Chief Engineering Officer Venkata Murthy Renduchintala seems to be taking the fall for the company’s failure to deliver on its next-generation products based on its seven-nanometer chipmaking process. The company, which revealed during its second-quarter earnings call last week that …
HPE opens 5G test lab for telcos to validate next-generation networks
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. announced today that its new 5G network test lab for telecommunications providers is now open. The HPE 5G Lab, as it’s called, provides an environment for telcos to test and validate their 5G network products with HPE’s growing portfolio …
Box integrates with more Google cloud services
Box Inc. said today it’s expanding its partnership with Google LLC and its integrations with G Suite and Google Cloud services. The company said it plans to use Google Cloud for data storage and machine learning integrations with its Box Skills software …
Intel’s stock falls as it delays its first 7-nanometer computer chips again
Intel Corp.’s stock took a beating in after-hours trading today after the company announced during in its second-quarter earnings call that its next-generation of computer chips will be delayed by six more months. The company said that it’s pushing back the launch date …
Cybersecurity firm Check Point reports strong sales growth
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. saw its profit and revenue grow in the second quarter, though its earnings came in below analysts’ expectations. The Israel-based cybersecurity firm reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $196.4 million, or $1.38 per share, …
Strong cloud growth helps Microsoft beat earnings expectations
Microsoft Corp. reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today that easily beat market expectations, once again showing strong growth within its cloud businesses. Still, the company’s shares dropped more than 2% in after-hours trading after it offered revenue guidance for the current quarter that …
Google’s Firebase app development framework gets more updates
Google LLC today issued a series of updates to its Firebase application development platform aimed at making developers more productive. The updates came during the end of Firebase Live, a monthlong web series that started broadcasting in June. The series consisted of various …
Google launches its Recommendations AI tool for online retailers
Google LLC said today that its Recommendations AI tool is now publicly available in public beta test mode. Recommendations AI was first announced in private beta in April 2019, and relies on Google’s sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to help retailers deliver highly …
Microsoft announces Dataflex, a new database for building low-code apps in Teams
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new relational database service called Dataflex that lets workers create, deploy and manage low-code applications and chatbots within its Microsoft Teams collaboration platform, which is a competitor to Slack, Facebook Inc.’s Workplace and Zoom. Dataflex provides relational …