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Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. saw its shares fall almost 4% in after-hours trading today despite posting second-quarter financial results that beat expectations on earnings and revenue. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation …
Google makes its Cloud AutoML service available on Kaggle
Google said today it’s bringing its Cloud AutoML service for training machine learning algorithms to Kaggle, its online community for data scientists. Cloud AutoML is a cloud-based toolkit that provides a drag-and-drop interface for training AI models. Using the software, it’s possible to …
Microsoft announces upcoming private preview of Azure Quantum service
Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off of its quantum computing strategy today, announcing an upcoming service called Azure Quantum that aims to mix and match the best bits of classical computing with the new architecture. “With all the capacity we have around computing, we …
Volterra exits stealth with $50M to tackle distributed apps
Startup Volterra Inc. is exiting stealth mode today backed by more than $50 million in funding, with a mission to help enterprises distribute their applications across public and private clouds and the network edge. Volterra has built a software-as-a-service based infrastructure platform …
Microsoft’s Power Platform gets new tools to automate business processes
Microsoft Corp. announced some important updates to its Power Platform that combines its application development and connectivity services with business intelligence tools. The updates, announced today at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, Florida, along with a large number of other new services, …
Microsoft expands hybrid cloud footprint with Azure Arc and more
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its hybrid cloud capabilities with the launch of a raft of new services this morning at its Ignite 2019 conference. The most important may be Azure Arc, available in preview starting today. It was announced at the weeklong conference …
Microsoft launches new Q&A forum in preview to replace TechNet and MSDN
Microsoft Corp. will replace its popular TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network support forums with a new service called “Microsoft Q&A” that’s likely to be up and running by the middle of next year. The new forum was launched earlier this week in …
Report: Alibaba could launch Hong Kong IPO in November
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is looking at reviving its plans for an initial public offering in Hong Kong this year, albeit at a reduced price of $10 billion to $15 billion, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The company had originally …
Amazon Web Services to expand into Spain with new cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced an expansion into Spain with a new cloud infrastructure region that’s set to open in late 2022 or early 2023. The region will be the company’s seventh in Europe, alongside existing facilities in Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, …
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 …