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Sales of personal computers took a knock in the fourth quarter from a combination of microprocessor chip shortages and the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, according to reports today from analyst firms International Data Corp. and Gartner Inc. IDC …
Box CEO Aaron Levie invests in financial wellness startup Even
Box Inc. Chief Executive Aaron Levie today is joining financial wellness startup Even Responsible Inc. as an “investor” in a funding round that also sees former Tableau Software Inc. sales executive Kelly Breslin Wright join the company. Even offers a financial wellness app …
Amazon launches DocumentDB database service to rival MongoDB
Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service that runs on its cloud …
Apple orders 10 percent reduction in iPhone production plans
Apple Inc.’s current misery looks like it could be extended into the new year, as new reports say the company has asked its iPhone suppliers to cut production of new devices for the next three months by about 10 percent. The report today from …
Baidu open-sources OpenEdge, a platform for building edge applications
Chinese technology powerhouse Baidu Inc. is positioning its public cloud for edge computing applications. The company today announced an open-source “intelligent edge” computing platform called OpenEdge that it says developers can use to build “light, secure and scalable edge applications.” With OpenEdge, …
G Suite admins will now get alerts when someone’s trying to steal company data
Google LLC has rolled out more security updates to G Suite, a collection of productivity tools that includes commercial versions of services such as Docs, Drive, Gmail and Sheets. The updates are targeted at administrators who monitor access to G Suite features …
IBM will use data from aircraft and smartphones to improve weather forecasts
IBM Corp. says it has come up with a better system for predicting the weather in more isolated parts of the world. During a presentation at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas today, IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty outlined the company’s new …
Alibaba and Intel to partner on 3-D athlete tracking for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working with Intel Corp. on a new “athlete tracking technology” powered by artificial intelligence that the Chinese cloud computing and e-commerce giant says could be a “game changer” in terms of audience engagement. The technology, built to run …
Intel shows off first 10-nanometer processors for AI, 5G and other next-gen workloads
Intel Corp. took to the stage at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas Monday in order to showcase its first central processing units built using its 10-nanometer process. Dubbed Ice Lake, the processors for personal computers are based on Intel’s …
First Apple, now Samsung says it’s expecting a massive drop in profit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has added to the doom and gloom surrounding technology stock markets after posting preliminary fourth-quarter earnings today that came in way below expectations. The culprit, according to Samsung, is a drop in demand for its memory chips and …