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Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp.’s executive chairman and chief technology officer, will need to come up with another excuse to take a dig at Amazon Web Services Inc. after his archrival announced it has finally moved off the company’s databases. AWS announced today …
Zoom announces customized appliances for videoconference meetings
Videoconferencing software company Zoom Video Communications Inc. is talking up the hardware today at its Zoomtopia 2019 event, announcing partnerships with outside suppliers to develop purpose-built appliances for Zoom Rooms. Zoom is first and foremost a software company. Its core product is …
UiPath announces new tools and acquisitions to automate more business processes
Robotic processing automation firm UiPath Inc. announced a couple of key acquisitions at its Forward III conference in Las Vegas today alongside a swath of improvements to its RPA platform. Backed by a billion dollars in venture capital funding, UiPath is one …
SAP and its co-CEOs face daunting integration challenges ahead
German enterprise software provider SAP SE’s new co-Chief Executive Officers Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein face a daunting task ahead of them as they look to integrate a growing portfolio of products and services into the company’s technology stack. Morgan and Klein were …
In a surprise, SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down after 9 years in the job
Enterprise software giant SAP SE has a new chief executive — two, actually. The company said today that Chief Executive Officer Bill McDermott (pictured) is stepping down from the company after more than nine years at the helm. McDermott has been replaced …
Startups Q-CTRL and Bleximo team up for application-specific quantum computing
Australian quantum computing startup Q-CTRL Pty. Ltd. is finally putting its software to use, partnering with U.S.-based Bleximo Corp. to power that company’s superconducting quantum accelerators. The partnership will see Q-CTRL become Bleximo’s “preferred provider” of quantum firmware as Bleximo looks to …
Slack claims 12M daily active users and greater engagement than Microsoft Teams
Workplace collaboration software provider Slack Technologies Inc. claims it now has more than 12 million daily active users, and that those users are more engaged with its tools than those who use rival Microsoft Corp.’s Teams product. If correct, it would mean Slack …
Facebook’s PyTorch AI framework adds support for mobile app deployment
Facebook Inc. today updated its popular artificial intelligence software framework PyTorch with support for new features that enable a more seamless AI model deployment to mobile devices. PyTorch is used by developers to research and build AI models for software applications, and …
OpsRamp beefs up alert capabilities with machine learning-based inference
Hybrid cloud infrastructure management company OpsRamp Inc. today is updating its event management platform and intelligent correlation machine learning capabilities. In addition, the OpsRamp Fall 2019 also provides new multicloud infrastructure monitoring functions for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s and Google LLC’s public cloud …
Diveplane launches ‘twin datasets’ for AI training to anonymize personal information
Startup Diveplane is trying to fix privacy issues around data used in artificial intelligence training with the launch of what it says is the industry’s “first verifiable twin dataset.” The company’s product, called GEMINAI, is meant to help organizations sell, share and …