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After profits fall 56%, Samsung says it’s poised for a turnaround
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that things are looking up despite its operating profit falling 56% in the third quarter from a year ago. The company reported an operating profit of 7.78 trillion won ($6.7 billion) for the three-month period ending in September, just ahead of the 7.7 trillion won profit forecast it provided ...
Western Digital begins search for a new CEO to replace Steve Milligan
Data storage company Western Digital Corp. gave shareholders the jitters today after announcing plans to replace Chief Executive Officer Steve Milligan (pictured), who will retire next year. Milligan, who has led the company since 2013, said in a conference call that he intends to stay on for the time being while it searches for a successor. ...
iPhone sales fall but Apple beats earnings estimates anyway
Investors in Apple Inc. had plenty to cheer about today as the company reported earnings that beat expectations and forecast a strong holiday quarter. Apple’s solid fiscal fourth-quarter results were all the more impressive as iPhone sales came in lighter than expected. For the quarter just gone, Apple reported a profit before certain costs such as ...
Google announces TensorFlow Enterprise for large-scale machine learning
Google LLC today launched an enterprise version of TensorFlow, the popular open-source artificial intelligence framework it created to run machine learning, deep learning and other statistical and predictive analytics workloads. The TensorFlow framework simplifies the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions and refining future results. Common use cases include training algorithms for image ...
Nasuni platform updates enable analytics and AI on unstructured data
Data management company Nasuni Corp. is refreshing its file services platform today, enabling analytics, artificial intelligence and search on unstructured data as well as new cloud migration capabilities. The idea is to give more flexibility to organizations that like to use multiple cloud services. Nasuni’s file services platform is comprised of a network-attached storage appliance ...
Druva integrates with Slack, Teams, ServiceNow, Splunk and Okta
Cloud data protection company Druva Inc. today is expanding into enterprise collaboration by integrating with leading applications, including Microsoft Teams and Slack. In addition, Druva announced new integrations with popular cloud services such as ServiceNow, Splunk and Okta. The integrations are a notable departure for Druva, which used to focus exclusively on safeguarding Amazon Web Services ...
Chipmaker AMD posts highest quarterly revenue since 2005
Capping a years-long return to form, computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today reported its highest quarterly revenue since 2005. It came after its first full quarter of seven-nanometer-process Epyc, Ryzen and Radeon processor sales, but the company’s shares fell slightly in after-hours trading after its guidance for the next quarter came up short. AMD ...
Google adds new device management and access controls to G Suite
Google LLC is shoring up security for G Suite and Cloud Identity customers with updates that should help them to keep a lid on both device management and access control. In a blog post today, Google product managers Vidya Nagarajan and Brad Meador explained that one of the best ways for businesses to keep their ...
Google creates dozens more .new web shortcuts for business users
Google LLC is creating a new shortcut for business users with the launch of several new .new web domains for G Suite enterprise customers. The launch of the .new domains today follows last year’s initial release of three specific shortcuts, namely docs.new, sheets.new and slides.new, which can be typed into the address bar of any ...
WANdisco enables more consistent analytics with LiveDeltaLake for Databricks
Data management company WANdisco Plc today launched a new LiveDeltaLake offering for customers that use Databricks Inc.’s Unified Data Analytics Platform, giving them a way to ensure they receive consistent business insights across different regions or cloud environments. WANdisco specializes in providing distributed computing services. It helps companies to create information technology environments that span multiple ...