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Updated: Shares in cloud networking company Arista Networks Inc. fell slightly in after-hours trading despite solid second-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.44 per share on revenue of $608.3 million. …
Software listing company Tackle.io adds support for Google and Microsoft clouds
Software sales automation company Tackle.io Inc. is adding support for major public cloud marketplaces, including the Google LLC’s Cloud Platform Marketplace and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Marketplace and AppSource. Tackle, which already supported Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Marketplace, sells a platform called …
IBM accused of trying to look ‘cool’ by unfairly firing older workers
IBM Corp. has been accused of targeting older employees in several rounds of layoffs in an effort to change its image and come across as being “cool” and “trendy” like rival companies Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google LLC. The accusation was …
Qualcomm suffers as Huawei ban and 5G transition hurt sales
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. says it’s feeling the heat from the ongoing ruckus between the U.S. and China over trade, with the ban on U.S. firms doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. hurting sales. The company today reported third-quarter earnings …
Google beefs up security for physical hardware and personal accounts
Google LLC today announced another round of security updates for large enterprises. The first of the updates, announced at Google’s Cloud Next ’19 conference in Tokyo, relates to physical security measures Google introduced last year with the launch of its Titan security …
Microsoft to retire Skype for Business in favor of Teams in 2021
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it will retire its Skype for Business Online meeting and collaboration service in July 2021 in favor of its newer Microsoft Teams product. The company had said in the past that its eventual plan was to ditch Skype …
Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
Google LLC is advancing its hybrid cloud play with a new tool released today that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos is a …
Amazon’s text-to-speech service Polly gets a newscaster-style voice
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking on Google LLC in human voice replication, adding two new features today to Amazon Polly, a cloud-based service that transforms text into lifelike speech and is used to create applications that can talk. The first of …
Samsung’s profit falls more than 50% amid memory chip supply glut
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that its operating profit for the second quarter of this year fell by more than 50% from the same period a year ago, blaming the decline on rapidly falling prices of its flash memory chips. The …
AMD hits revenue targets but stock falls on lower guidance
Updated: Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has just come through a rough quarter that saw its revenue fall 13% from a year ago, despite beating expectations. The company, which competes against larger rivals such as Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp., today reported …