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Google LLC says it has stopped issuing licenses for new Android phones sold in Turkey, which means devices will not be allowed to ship with its applications and services. Reuters reported today that Google made the decision following a dispute with Turkey’s competition regulator, …
Actifio’s latest release speeds up multicloud data recovery
Copy data management software company Actifio Inc. today added some new features to its platform that it says will help enterprise customers to use public cloud services faster, and at a lower cost, for their data-driven transformation initiatives. Founded in 2009, Actifio has …
Peter Thiel’s Palantir lands $111M Vantage contract from U.S. Army
Data mining software company Palantir Technologies Inc. has signed a substantial new contract with the U.S. Army to help analyze complex data sets containing information on both military personnel and the huge arsenal of weapons they use. The contract is valued at …
Linux Foundation pitches DENT to simplify enterprise edge networks
The Linux Foundation today announced a new open-source project aimed at simplifying enterprise networking software at the edge. The DENT initiative‘s goal is to create a network operating system for disaggregated network switches used in remote enterprise locations such as retail stores. The …
Oracle’s stock drops after it misses revenue targets
Shares of Oracle Corp. fell 3% in extended trading today after the database giant reported mixed second-quarter financial results that missed revenue estimates. The results came as Oracle Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison (pictured) clarified that the company has no plans to …
Xs:code debuts open-source software monetization platform
Israeli startup xscode international Ltd. is exiting stealth mode today with $500,000 in seed funding and the launch of a new platform that enables open-source software developers to monetize their work via private repositories on GitHub. The company, which does business as xs:code, …
Google debuts Transfer Service for speeding on-premises data to the cloud
One of the major barriers for companies looking to switch their information technology infrastructure to the cloud is that they first have to move all of their data to the same platform, and doing so can be a very a complex and …
Red Hat customers say hybrid is their top cloud strategy
Customers of Red Hat Inc. are increasingly opting for a hybrid approach as their preferred cloud strategy, but doing so isn’t always easy: A large number of them admit to struggling to attract staff with the right skills to make it happen. …
Google launches E2 family of virtual machines for smaller workloads
Google LLC today launched a new tier of general-purpose virtual machines with “dynamic resource management” capabilities that help ensure a lower total cost of ownership for many kinds of application workloads. The new VMs, the E2 family, are targeted at workloads that …
Google’s ambient computing vision gets closer with Flutter 1.12 release
Google LLC today announced a major update to its open-source Flutter framework that’s used to build applications that can run on multiple computing platforms. Flutter is a framework that’s used by developers to write “native” apps on operating systems such as Android, …