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Amazon.com Inc. said today it’s making a commitment to use 100% renewable energy for all of its business operations by 2030, and to become fully carbon neutral by 2040. As part of its renewable-energy drive, Amazon is also ordering 100,000 electric vehicles …
New Relic evolves its application monitoring platform with major update
Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. is evolving its New Relic One platform via a major update announced at its annual FutureStack conference today. The company introduced what it calls “programmability” features that enable developers to build native apps atop of …
WANdisco LiveAnalytics enables data to be analyzed as it moves to the cloud
Data management company WANdisco Plc is debuting a new tool that makes it possible for organizations to analyze on-premises data while it’s being migrated to the cloud. WANdisco said its LiveAnalytics offering helps to ensure “uninterrupted business insights” as companies move data …
Apple’s longtime communications chief Steve Dowling quits
More leadership changes are taking place at Apple Inc. The iPhone maker’s Vice President of Communications Steve Dowling will be leaving the company at the end of next month in what is the latest in a series of unexpected executive departures. Recode …
GitHub automates vulnerability discovery with Semmle code analysis engine
Software development platform GitHub Inc. is making it easier for security researchers to identify vulnerabilities in the code it hosts after acquiring a company called Semmle Ltd. Semmle has built what GitHub says is a “revolutionary code analysis engine” that works by performing …
Aliro Technologies helps developers write quantum apps once and run them anywhere
Startup Aliro Technologies is emerging from stealth today, landing $2.7 million in a seed funding round for its mission to democratize quantum computing. Flybridge Capital Partners led the round, which also saw the participation of Crosslink Ventures and Samsung NEXT’s Q fund. Aliro …
Tableau Software’s latest AI helps explain what your data means
Data visualization company Tableau Software Inc. is relying more heavily on artificial intelligence as it tries help users uncover more insights buried deep within their data. The company is pitching a new AI-powered capability called “Explain Data.” It’s just one of several …
SWIM enables real-time edge data analytics on Microsoft Azure
Edge computing company SWIM Inc. wants to help enterprises bring all of their data-generating assets together within Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. By doing so, the data can quickly be analyzed in real-time, labeled appropriately and then put to use by any Azure-based …
LinkedIn debuts Skills Assessments for users to prove their expertise
LinkedIn. Corp. today added a new skills test feature to its website that lets users prove their expertise in a variety of fields. LinkedIn Skill Assessments, first previewed in May, is a series of short, standardized tests that rely on “adaptive testing,” …
Adobe stock falls on light guidance
Creativity software company Adobe Inc. beat expectations on third-quarter earnings today, but the strong performance was tempered by soft guidance for the next quarter. Adobe, which sells the popular Photoshop image editing tool and a range of cloud marketing technology services, reported …