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Samsung is mass-producing 5G modem chips, but it won’t sell them to Apple
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it has finally begun mass-producing 5G modem chipsets to be used in the next generation of mobile devices. Samsung’s 5G modems are extremely important for the company, which besides being the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer is also a major component supplier to many of its competitors, including Apple ...
AWS to boost its presence in Asia with new Indonesia cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. is building a new cloud region in Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta as it looks to beef up its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The public cloud computing giant revealed its plans Wednesday, saying the new facility will open in 2022 and encompass three availability zones. Each AWS availability zone offers redundancy within ...
LinkedIn’s newly open-sourced Avro2TF preps data for TensorFlow
LinkedIn Corp. Thursday donated yet another internally built tool to the open-source community: a conversion tool that transforms data from Apache Spark into a format that can easily be consumed by TensorFlow for machine learning purposes. TensorFlow is one of the most popular and widely used frameworks for running machine learning, deep learning and other statistical ...
Report: Apple’s 5G iPhone could be delayed until 2021 as Intel misses deadlines
Apple Inc. could be forced to delay its 5G iPhone plans beyond 2020 as its main component supplier Intel Corp. looks like it will be unable to deliver the necessary modems on time. A report from Fast Company, citing a person with knowledge of Intel’s and Apple’s relationship, said Intel is struggling to meet its ...
IDC: Converged infrastructure systems sales top $4.15B
It’s apparent from International Data Corp. updated Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker released Wednesday that enterprises still have a healthy appetite for converged infrastructure systems of all shapes and sizes. Total worldwide spending on converged infrastructure grew 14.8 percent, to $4.15 billion, in the fourth quarter of 2018, with Dell Technologies Inc. leading the way in terms ...
Google Drive integrates DocuSign, K2 and Nintex to speed up business workflows
Google LLC is integrating a number of tools with its cloud storage service Google Drive to make it easier for users to find information and take certain actions without leaving the platform. “As more and more companies migrate their content to the cloud, it’s critical that they reimagine their workflows to follow similar principles: to ...
IP infringement detection firm Red Points raises $38M
Spanish company Red Points Solutions S.L.’s $38 million funding round highlights a growing interest from companies looking to protect their intellectual property online. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors Northzone, Mangrove, Eight Roads and Banco Sabadell. Red Points bills itself as an “online IP infringement ...
Deep learning startup Run:AI exits stealth with $13M funding
Israeli artificial intelligence startup Run:AI wants to speed up the way we train deep learning models after exiting stealth mode with $13 million in its war chest. The money comes from a $10 million Series A round of financing announced today. It was led by Haim Sadger’s S Capital and TLV Partners, following an earlier ...
Aqua Security gets $62M to boost its container security platform
Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s latest blockbuster funding round demonstrates the insatiable appetite among enterprises for more container security controls. The company, which sells tools to protect container-based, cloud-native and serverless applications from malware and malicious attacks, today said it has raised $62 million in a Series C round of funding. Insight Partners is the lead ...
Microsoft and BMW launch smart factory initiative
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with BMW AG on an initiative designed to help manufacturers build so-called “smart factories” that leverage “internet of things” and cloud computing technologies. The Open Manufacturing Platform is an “open technology framework” targeted at companies in the automotive sector and other industries that can benefit from more connected manufacturing systems, ...