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The U.K. government said today it’s moving forward with plans to start taxing providers of digital services in the country starting April 1, and the move is expected to affect dozens of U.S. tech firms, including Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google …
Security firm Arctic Wolf lands $60M in late-stage funding
Cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. is hoping to expand into new markets after landing a hefty $60 million funding round announced today. Blue Cloud Ventures and Stereo Capital led the Series D round, which brings the company’s total amount raised to …
Linux Foundation to house Project OWL’s disaster relief IoT firmware
The Linux Foundation said today it has agreed to house the “internet of things” device firmware effort of Project OWL, which aims to create a mesh network of open source devices called “DuckLinks” that can be used to establish an Internet connection …
IDC slashes tech spending forecast amid coronavirus fears
International Data Corp. says it’s revising its information technology spending forecast for 2020 downward, blaming the fallout from the rapid spread of the coronavirus. According to indicators in the first quarter, IDC reckons there will be a significant decline in spending on …
IBM enhances Watson’s natural language understanding capabilities
IBM Corp. said today it has made some big improvements to the natural language processing capabilities of its IBM Watson platform. The new capabilities, which were born out of IBM Research’s Project Debater, will help Watson understand and analyze some of the most …
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open-source operating system for container apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the debut of a new, open-source operating system for software containers that runs on bare metal servers or virtual machines. AWS Bottlerocket is currently available in preview, and is a stripped down operating system comprised of …
HPE Container Platform is now generally available
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced the general availability of the HPE Container Platform Monday, four months after it entered beta. Launched in November, the platform combines an assortment of technologies developed by BlueData Software Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc., which were recently acquired by HPE. The …
Cloudera’s stock rises after big-data firm crushes earnings forecast
It’s smiles all round at big-data company Cloudera Inc., which saw its stock jump more than 10% today after posting financial results that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, which sells various data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics software …
Docker fleshes out developer strategy with new service plans
Several months after selling off its enterprise business, software container company Docker Inc. today fleshed out its new strategy to focus more on solving problems for developers with some expanded services. The new strategy is a necessary step for Docker, which was once …
Red Hat updates Ceph Storage platform for cloud-native workloads
Red Hat Inc. today announced a new release of its Ceph Storage platform, based on the most recent Nautilus release of the Ceph open-source project. Red Hat Ceph Storage is a software platform that provides highly scalable object, block and file-based storage …