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Amazon and its partners will start reselling VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc. are making their jointly developed VMware Cloud on AWS service more widely available by opening it up to Amazon’s partner network as well as AWS’ own salesforce. As of today, customers will be able to purchase VMware Cloud on AWS directly from AWS and from companies in the ...
Apple and SAP work together to create more iOS business apps
Apple Inc. is expanding its relationship with German enterprise software company SAP SE to make it easier for their joint customers to build mobile business applications using the iPhone maker’s machine learning tools. The companies said at SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW conference Tuesday that they’re integrating Apple’s Core ML machine learning tech and its AR Kit ...
Google combats machine learning bias with open-source tech
Google LLC wants to make machine learning models more transparent in order to protect against bias in their decision-making. Bias is a big problem in artificial intelligence, of which machine learning is a subset. It’s a byproduct of the black-box nature of AI applications, which don’t always reveal the logic behind their decisions. Bias can ...
Google expands its Flutter UI framework to the rest of the web
Google LLC is serving up more treats for developers with a bevy of updates to its open-source Flutter software for building rich user interfaces for both Android and iOS apps using the same code. Specifically, what Flutter does is enable developers to build “native” mobile apps for both mobile operating systems faster than they can with traditional platforms. The ...
Google fires up its Firebase app development framework
Google LLC is launching multiple updates to its Firebase mobile and web application development framework as it strives to make developers’ lives easier and sway more of them to its platforms. Firebase has seen a steady stream of updates since it was launched as a full-fledged mobile app platform in 2016, as part of Google’s effort ...
Cloud infrastructure spending tops $21B in first quarter
Analyst firm Synergy Research Group’s latest numbers on public cloud infrastructure spending shows that enterprises just can’t satisfy their voracious appetite for hosted services. Spending on cloud infrastructure jumped by 42% in the first quarter of 2019 from a year ago. Synergy, which calculates cloud infrastructure spending using earnings data from the main cloud providers, ...
ServiceNow partners with Google Cloud as it targets $10B in annual sales
Fast-growing information technology services management company ServiceNow Inc. today said it has secured a strategic partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership is designed to expand the footprint of its software platforms as it bids to hit $10 billion in annual sales. ServiceNow, whose cloud automation platform is used for IT service and other tasks, announced the ...
Microsoft expands Azure capabilities to help developers build more intelligent apps
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is one of the most popular platforms around for application developers, and also one of the central talking points at the company’s Build developer conference today. The bulk of today’s Build announcements were focused on improving productivity, but Microsoft is also intent on helping developers build more intelligent apps on Azure. ...
At Build, Microsoft focuses updates on collaboration and productivity
Helping workers to be more collaborative and productive is always one of the key areas of focus at Microsoft Corp.’s developer-focused Build conference, and this year is no different. Kicking off the three-day conference today in Seattle with a keynote by Chief Executive Satya Nadella (pictured), the tech giant added a host of new productivity-related ...
Carbon Black pulls another successful quarter out of the bag
Cybersecurity firm Carbon Black Inc. is riding high today after once again beating expectations on revenue. The company, which has beaten expectations on each of its earnings calls since going public last year, reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 22 cents per share, in-line with estimates. Revenue came to $58.6 million, ...