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Robotic process automation startup Leapwork raises $10M
Danish company Leapwork A/S is the latest startup in the red-hot robotic process automation market to catch the eye of venture capitalists. The company, which exited stealth in 2017, said today it has closed on a $10 million Series A financing led by DN Capital and e.ventures. That might seem like mere pocket change next to ...
Intel exits 5G smartphone modem business hours after Apple and Qualcomm settle
Intel Corp. is exiting the 5G smartphone modem business in what seems to be a planned reaction to the news earlier today that Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. have settled their long-running legal dispute. Intel made the announcement late today, just hours after Apple and Qualcomm said they had settled their multibillion-dollar legal dispute over ...
Mendix integrates its low code app development platform with SAP HANA
Low-code application development platform provider Mendix Inc. is warming up to SAP SE as it launches its Spring 2019 update. With the latest release of its platform as a service today, Mendix said, users can now choose to deploy apps built using its tools to the SAP HANA database and take full advantage of its analytics capabilities ...
Salesforce buys its own philanthropic unit Salesforce.org for $300M
Salesforce.com Inc. has made a somewhat unusual acquisition, buying its own independent philanthropic organization Salesforce.org in a $300 million all-cash deal. The deal, announced today, will see Salesforce.org transition from a California public benefit corporation to a business corporation, with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that plans to ...
Walmart buys startup Polymorph Labs to boost its new advertising business
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is getting serious about moving into the digital advertising business. The retail giant today announced its intent to acquire an advertising startup called Polymorph Labs Inc., which sells a cloud-based “self-serve platform” for online ad publishers. In a statement posted on its website Thursday, Stefanie Jay, vice president and general manager of the ...
Google debuts centralized controls for Chrome browser deployments
Google LLC today made a new service generally available that lets information technology administrators better manage access controls and features within its Chrome browser across organizations. Chrome Browser Cloud Management, launched in beta in 2018, provides a way to centrally secure and maintain Chrome to optimize the experience for users. Google said the service was introduced ...
Analysts blame Intel chip shortage for ongoing PC sales decline
There’s no letup in the declining global demand for personal computers, according to new numbers released Wednesday by market analysts Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. Gartner said global shipments of PCs, which includes desktops, notebooks and workstations, fell by 4.6% in the first quarter of 2019 to 58.9 million. But IDC reported the exact ...
Amazon buys warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology
Amazon.com Inc. has acquired a Boulder, Colorado-based robotics startup called Canvas Technology that builds autonomous vehicles for industrial purposes. More specifically, Canvas makes autonomous, self-driving carts for use in warehouses. The carts are said to employ “spacial artificial intelligence” and advanced imaging cameras that help them to navigate their way through busy warehouses and depots ...
Pentagon: Amazon, Microsoft now in two-horse race for $10B JEDI cloud deal
The race to land a multibillion-dollar Pentagon cloud services contract is now down to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after two other competing bids were rejected by U.S. Defense Department officials, Bloomberg reported today. According to Defense Department spokeswoman Elissa Smith, only Amazon and Microsoft meet the “minimum requirements” for its Joint Enterprise Defense ...
Google partners with Fivetran to bring more data to BigQuery
Google LLC teamed up with a little-known company called Fivetran Inc. today to create a new Data Transfer Service for its BigQuery data analytics platform. BigQuery is actually a data warehouse service that’s used to store and analyze extremely large, read-only datasets. It’s hosted on Google’s cloud infrastructure and accesses data via an application program interface, but ...