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Strong cloud growth helps boost Microsoft’s market cap over $1T again
Shares in Microsoft Corp. rose to a new record high after it beat analysts’ estimates on fourth-quarter revenue and profit, driven by growing sales from its cloud business. In fact, Microsoft saw strong growth across virtually all of its products as it reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.37 per share ...
Data residency compliance firm InCountry raises $15M
Data-residency-as-a-service company InCountry Inc. has raised yet more money, landing a $15 million round of funding just two months after launching from stealth mode. InCountry, which sells software services that help companies adhere to rules requiring personal data to be stored in the country from which it originates, earlier picked up $7 million in a ...
Intel to optimize its data center hardware for SAP apps
Intel Corp. and SAP SE said today they’re working together to optimize chipmaker’s infrastructure hardware for the German company’s enterprise software applications, including its popular S/4Hana database. The focus is on Intel technologies such as its Xeon Scalable central processing units and its Optane DC persistent memory, which the companies believe can significantly enhance the ...
Cloud communications company 8×8 acquires Wavecell
8×8 Inc. said today it’s acquiring Wavecell Co. Ltd., which sells a Communications Platform-as-a-Service offering, for about $125 million. 8×8 sells a variety of chat, contact center, voice and video communications tools to enterprises, with more than a million worldwide users. Wavecell, on the other hand, sells what it calls a “cloud-first” application programming interface ...
Dropbox integrates with popular media services
Cloud storage company Dropbox Inc. is expanding its strategy of closer collaboration with other service providers, announcing new integrations with various popular audio, video and transcription tools. The company said today that it’s integrating its products more closely with Adobe Inc.’s Premiere Rush, Otter.ai, Simon Says, Videomenth, Vidrovr and Curio, allowing users of those applications ...
Google has abandoned Project Dragonfly, the censored search engine for China
Google LLC this week revealed that the company has stopped working on Project Dragonfly, which was said to be an effort to build a censored version of its search engine specifically for China. The revelation was made during a U.S. Senate Judiciary hearing, where Karan Bhatia, Google’s vice president of public policy, simply stated: “We ...
Uber unveils a conversational AI platform called Plato
Uber Technology Inc. has open-sourced a conversational artificial intelligence engine called the Plato Research Dialog System that’s set to compete with similar offerings such as Google LLC’s Dialogflow, Microsoft Corp.’s Bot Framework, and Amazon.com Inc.’s Lex. In a blog post today, Uber’s AI research team explained that Plato is designed for building, training and deploying prototype ...
Arm lets startups try before they buy with new Flexible Access IP licensing
British semiconductor design firm Arm Ltd. today pitched a new licensing option without any upfront costs for startups and other smaller companies that want to build central processing units and systems-on-a-chip using its chip blueprints. Intellectual property licensing isn’t the most exciting topic, but in an age when companies are increasingly looking at building their own silicon ...
With new application service, Pivotal lets developers go ‘all-in’ on Kubernetes
Pivotal Software Inc. is doubling down on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration service with the alpha release today of a new version of its Pivotal Application Service. Pivotal Application Service is a software application development platform based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provides a range of clouds, developer frameworks and app services to ...
Symantec beefs up its cloud access tools to support ‘zero-trust’ security
Cybersecurity company Symantec Corp. is enhancing the cloud access controls in its Integrated Cyber Defense Platform today, giving enterprises a way to enforce so-called zero-trust security policies that govern how their cloud-based information technology systems are accessed. Zero trust is a security model that’s proving to become more and more popular with enterprises. It allows them to shift ...