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Microsoft extends paid Windows 7 security updates to small businesses
Microsoft Corp. is extending a helping if not cheap hand to small and midsized businesses that for whatever reason have been unable to update their computers to its Windows 10 operating system. The company said it will make Windows 7 Extended Security Updates available to more of its customers, having previously only offered them to ...
Rubrik said to seek buyer as growth stalls, but data backup firm denies report
Updated with company comment: Cloud data backup firm Rubrik Inc. has approached several “large technology companies” about the possibility of selling itself, according to a report today. The company, which was described as a so-called “unicorn” following a $261 million funding round in January that valued it at $3.3 billion, has reportedly struggled to maintain its ...
Tesla buys computer vision startup DeepScale
Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has reportedly acquired a computer vision startup called DeepScale Inc. whose technology could help it build completely driverless vehicles. The report from CNBC today cited unnamed sources as saying the transaction is a done deal, and although no price was disclosed, one analyst, Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, pegged ...
Qlik revamps its cloud-based big-data analytics offering
Swedish big-data company QlikTech International AB is revamping its cloud-based, software-as-a-service offering with today’s launch of its rebranded Qlik Sense Business platform. Qlik is a provider of business intelligence software that enables enterprises to visualize their data in graphically rich dashboards and run analyses to find useful patterns. The company’s core technology is a big-data ...
Confluent debuts free tier of its Apache Kafka cloud big-data service
Big-data company Confluent Inc. is introducing a free tier to its cloud-based Apache Kafka offering, giving enterprises an easy way to get started with the popular open source data streaming platform. Confluent was founded in 2014 by former LinkedIn Corp. engineers who helped create the original Apache Kafka project. Kafka is an event streaming platform ...
AWS IQ gives cloud customers easy access to hired help
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to provide more of a helping hand to its customers with the launch today of a new program called AWS IQ. AWS IQ is a service that connects Amazon customers directly with AWS certified engineers. The idea is to provide assistance to customers working on a range of computing projects. ...
Microsoft challenges secrecy order over customer data requests
Microsoft Corp. is taking issue with the U.S. government again, challenging a federal judge’s order that prevents it from informing one of its largest corporate customers that law enforcement has issued a warrant for its data. Microsoft argues that the gag order is inappropriate, since it believes its customers own their data and should therefore ...
Micron’s stock falls on declining sales and a weak profit outlook
Updated: Shares in computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after it posted yet another revenue decline and guidance for the next quarter that fell short of expectations. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 56 cents per share on revenue of $4.87 ...
Google Firebase intros packaged code for developers to speed app-building
Google LLC today is adding more features to its Firebase mobile and web application development framework aimed at making developers’ lives easier and get more of them to use the platform. Firebase is Google’s main application development platform that enables developers to develop iOS, Android and web apps. As well as providing an app development ...
QC Ware launches Forge platform for easy access to quantum computing
A startup called QC Ware is trying to carve out a role for itself as a “quantum computing-as-a-service” company with the beta launch of its Forge cloud service today. Quantum computing is a fundamentally different and vastly more powerful computer architecture that has the potential to solve extremely complex problems that are impossible or would take ...