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Hortonworks delivers strong earnings ahead of Cloudera merger
Big data company Hortonworks Inc. delivered a solid third-quarter performance in what should be one of its last earnings calls ahead of its supposed “merger of equals” with rival firm Cloudera Inc. The Santa Clara, California-based company, which sells an enterprise-grade version of the Apache Hadoop software framework along with other open-source tools, reported a ...
Google rolls out new tools to make AI more accessible to businesses
Google LLC is stepping up its efforts to make its artificial intelligence technology more accessible to businesses across a range of industries. The internet giant has already made some big steps in this direction. Earlier this year it introduced a new service called AutoML that businesses with limited knowledge of AI can use to build ...
Edge computing startup mimik wants to decentralize the cloud
Startup mimik technology Inc. aims to help developers and enterprises offload some of their cloud computing workloads to the “network edge.” So today, the Vancouver-based company is launching a new edge cloud platform and software development kit that it said can be used to create “smarter, more responsive applications” that effectively transform devices such as smartphones ...
Former Intel chief Brian Krzanich lands a new job
Former Intel Corp. Chief Executive Brian Krzanich has made the surprising decision to renew his career with a little-known company called CDK Global LLC that sells technology to dealerships. The company builds products such as an e-commerce platform and financial management software to resellers in the agriculture, automotive, construction, heavy truck and marine industries. If ...
Investors nervous as chipmaker Qualcomm forecasts lower holiday sales
Updated Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s performance in its fiscal fourth quarter was overshadowed by its ongoing legal battles with Apple Inc., but at least it was better news on a tough day for the mobile chipmaker. The company beat expectations, but it forecast sales revenue for the coming quarter that came in below analysts’ estimates, mainly ...
Microsoft’s Cortana boss Javier Soltero says he’ll quit later this year
Microsoft Corp. is waving goodbye to another senior executive. This time around it’s Javier Soltero, the current head of its digital assistant Cortana, who’s leaving the firm. The departure of Soltero (pictured) is just the latest in what seems to be an ongoing shakeup within Microsoft’s leadership team, following the exit of 20-year veteran Terry ...
Tableau Software misses revenue target but posts strong profit
Updated: Tableau Software Inc. is flying high today despite reporting a mixed bag in its third-quarter results. The data analytics software company posted a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 7 cents per share on revenue of $239.6 million. Tableau’s revenue rose 11 percent from the same quarter a year ago, primarily ...
Shares of Twilio jump 35% as it easily beats earnings targets
Updated: Communications services company Twilio Inc. put a smile on the face of shareholders once again today, posting third-quarter results that breezed past expectations. The company also reported strong growth on the customer acquisition front, further cheering investors, who sent Twilio’s stock soaring by more than 12 percent in after-hours trading. Update: Shares rocketed more than 35 percent ...
Speedy database startup ScyllaDB now goes even faster
Database startup ScyllaDB Inc. is using its two-day Scylla Summit starting today to announce the release of Scylla Open Source 3.0. The new product represents a major upgrade to ScyllaDB’s open-source NoSQL database, with a host of new features designed to achieve parity with the Apache Cassandra database with which it’s trying to compete. Scylla’s database is ...
Periscope Data makes it easier to analyze data from multiple storage platforms
Analytics company Periscope Data Inc. hopes to help its customers tap into diverse data sets much more quickly with a new tool announced today. Data Engine enables faster access to a variety of data warehouses. It was optimized to deliver faster queries on both Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Redshift and Snowflake Computing Inc.’s cloud-based data warehouse services. Data ...