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IBM Corp. has teamed up with SEAT S.A., a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, on a new “Mobility Advisor” application to help people make more informed decisions about their daily transportation options. Introduced today, the application is designed to run on 4G- …
VMware launches Essential PKS for modular software container deployments
VMware Inc. today launched a new, stripped-down version of its Pivotal Container Service or PKS, which is used by companies to easily create software containers running on virtual machines. The new version, called VMware Essential PKS, is designed for companies that want …
Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing
Rancher Labs Inc. is looking to cater to enterprises that want to run Kubernetes in information technology environments constrained by limited resources. The company, which sells software for managing application containers, has unveiled a lightweight Kubernetes distribution called K3s that’s meant to …
Amazon says Lyft is going all-in on its public cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. has a long history of showcasing its big cloud computing customer wins, and today it announced another one: ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. Lyft said it’s moving its entire information technology infrastructure to Amazon in order to enhance its …
Robotic process automation firm Kryon closes on $40M round
Investors are throwing money at yet another robotic process automation startup. The latest beneficiary is Israeli firm Kryon, which today said it has closed on a $40 million round led by OAK HC/FT. Previous investors Aquiline Technology Growth and Vertex Ventures also …
Intel targets 5G network providers with FPGA-based accelerators
Intel Corp. is trying to win over 5G wireless service providers that need to handle growing volumes of virtualized workloads. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it launched a new field-programmable gate array-based acceleration card called the N3000. The chipmaker said it …
AIStorm announces its first analog data AI chips for IoT and driverless cars
Edge artificial intelligence startup AIStorm wasted no time at all in getting its first set of specialized sensors out of the door, announcing its initial products today just two weeks after closing on an early-stage round of funding worth $13.2 million. The company …
Apple aims to replace Intel’s processors with Arm-based chips in its Mac PCs by 2020
Intel Corp. is apparently convinced that Apple Inc. is planning to replace its central processing units used in its Mac personal computers with Arm-based silicon instead. In a report today that cited private conversations with Intel officials and software developers, Axios apparently …
Sony is hiring more engineers to expand its image sensor chip business
Sony Corp. is planning to grow its engineering teams as it looks for new business opportunities in growth markets such as the automotive and “internet of things” sectors, Reuters reported Wednesday. The Japanese firm will allocate some 40 percent of its new engineering …
Dropbox stock falls 8 percent as investors dump on poor guidance
Updated: Shares of file-sharing company Dropbox Inc. went into free-fall late today, plummeting by almost 10 percent in extended trading after providing guidance that left shareholders sorely disappointed. The stock drop comes despite what was a positive fourth quarter for the company, which …