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Nvidia Corp. is claiming another big breakthrough in artificial intelligence, this time setting new records in language understanding that could enable real-time conversational AI in a variety of software applications. Nvidia said real-time conversational AI is a must-have for companies that want …
Data center storage firm Pavilion Data Systems raises $25M
Data center hardware maker Pavilion Data Systems Inc. is gearing up for expansion after closing on a $25 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $58 million. Announced today, the Series C round was led by new investors …
Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera
The notorious activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn (pictured) has claimed two seats on Cloudera Inc.’s board of directors just weeks after taking an 18.4% stake in the company. Icahn, who is perhaps best known for trying to block Dell Technology Inc.’s …
Russia asks Google not to advertise ‘illegal’ protests on YouTube
Russia’s communications watchdog Roscomnadzor has asked Google LLC to stop advertising what it calls “illegal mass events” on its YouTube service. The request comes after “multiple channels” on the platform broadcast live footage of demonstrations against the Russian government at the weekend, …
Dropbox beats earnings estimates but stock falls on slower customer growth
Updated: Shares in cloud storage company Dropbox Inc. took a beating today after it fell short on a key quarterly metric that indicates future growth and reported its slowest growth in paid users since going public. Dropbox’s second-quarter results were pretty good, …
Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B
Computer chipmaking company Broadcom Inc. announced Thursday that it’s buying Symantec Corp.’s enterprise security business in a deal valued at $10.7 billion, confirming earlier reports that discussions of an acquisition were at an advanced stage. The acquisition means Symantec will effectively split …
Google heralds a new era of ‘Deployed AI’ to transform businesses
Google LLC today declared that the use artificial intelligence has entered a new era, as companies move on from simply conceptualizing what the technology can potentially do to actually using it to elevate their businesses. This new era is called the age …
VMware HCX app mobility platform now handles non-vSphere migrations
Virtualization software company VMware Inc. today is updating the enterprise version of its VMware HCX application mobility platform with some useful new capabilities, including the ability to perform live migrations of both vSphere and other workloads. VMware HCX Enterprise is a set …
AMD announces next-generation EPYC data center chips and big customer wins
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced the launch of its second generation of EPYC processing chips for data centers, adding some new big-name customers including Google LLC and Twitter Inc. The company’s 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are built using new technology from …
Salesforce to acquire field service software provider ClickSoftware for $1.35B
Customer relationship management software giant Salesforce.com Inc. said today it will buy ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. for $1.35 billion in cash and stock. ClickSoftware sells what’s called field service software, which is used to keep track of company employees that perform maintenance tasks …