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Salesforce.com Inc. is taking its developer embrace one step further by open-sourcing its Lightning Web Components framework. Lightning Web Components is, as the name suggests, a component-based framework that’s designed to simplify application development for regular business employees who lack programming expertise. …
Microsoft to build ‘most sustainable’ data centers ever in Sweden
Microsoft Corp. early today announced plans to develop two new “world-class” data centers in Sweden that it promises will be among the “most sustainable” ever built, completely powered by renewable energy sources with plans for zero-waste operations. The data centers will be located …
China’s military is building its own operating system to replace Windows
As political tensions ratchet up between the U.S. and China amid an ongoing trade war that has had some big repercussions on the global technology industry, the Chinese military is reportedly looking to replace Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system with its own, …
LinkedIn buys digital identity management firm Drawbridge
Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn Corp. has made another acquisition, buying a digital identity management company called Drawbridge Inc. for an undisclosed price. LinkedIn said today that it plans to use Drawbridge’s technology to improve its Marketing Solutions tools, which are used by marketers …
Workday beats earnings targets again but investors not so happy
Updated: Enterprise software company Workday Inc. has extended its positive streak, posting results today that came in above expectations and raising its outlook for the next quarter and full year. The company, which sells financial management and human capital management software, reported first-quarter …
Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release
Pivotal Software Inc. today updated its Spring Runtime application development platform to address concerns some developers have about changes made by Oracle Corp. to the licensing terms of its popular Java Standard Edition programming language. Oracle’s Java is the most popular programming …
Report: Alibaba considers second listing in Hong Kong to raise $20B
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is weighing up the opportunity of getting more funding via a second listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange that could raise up to $20 billion. The company is said to be working with financial advisers …
AMD takes on Intel with 12-core Ryzen 9 computer chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is taking a few shots at Intel Corp. with the launch late Sunday of its long-awaited 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X microprocessor chip at the Computex event running in Taipei this week. The chipmaker reckons the new chip easily matches the …
Nvidia announces its first AI platform for edge devices
Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform that can perceive, understand and act on data in real time without sending it to the cloud or a …
Three years late, Intel debuts Ice Lake, its first 10-nanometer processor
Intel Corp. today offered a preview of Ice Lake, its newest mobile processor, at the annual Computex event running this week in Taipei. The new chip, set to launch next month, is an important milestone for Intel as it’s the company’s first processor to be …