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Box is acquiring Butter.ai’s teams and talent to boost its AI strategy
File sharing company Box Inc. is getting its hands on some top artificial intelligence talent after signing up the team behind Butter AI Corp., which makes AI-based enterprise file search software. The deal, which is essentially an “acqui-hire” since Box is not buying the entire company, means that Butter.ai’s original application will also shut down, ...
Apple combines its Siri and AI teams under former Googler John Giannandrea
Apple Inc. is revamping its artificial intelligence teams into a single unit headed up by former Google LLC exec John Giannandrea. Giannandrea (pictured), who was formerly Google’s head of search and AI, will lead Apple’s machine learning division, its Siri team and the team working on Core ML, which is an application programming interface designed ...
HarperDB adds geoanalysis tools to its IoT database
“Internet of things” database specialist HarperDB Inc. is updating its namesake product with new capabilities such as real-time geographical data analysis and storage optimization for “edge” devices. The updates allow organizations to establish a “truly intelligent” network edge without the need to splash out on additional hardware, the company said. HarperDB was launched earlier this ...
Canonical intros Minimal Ubuntu OS for software containers
U.K. software company Canonical Ltd. today released yet another slimmed-down release of its Ubuntu operating system. Designed for software containers and cloud computing, the new Minimal Ubuntu OS Docker image weighs in at just 29 megabytes. The Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support release, as it’s officially known, is said to be an efficient container operating ...
Marvell completes acquisition of semiconductor maker Cavium
U.S. semiconductor firm Marvell Technology Group Ltd. today said it has completed its $6 billion takeover of rival Cavium Inc. after receiving regulatory approval in China. The newly combined company packs a broad portfolio of intellectual property and patents that will “unlock significant opportunities” for growth as new kinds of compute workloads emerge, Cavium Chief Executive ...
Alibaba Cloud to host Siemens’ MindSphere IoT platform in China
German electrical engineering and electronics conglomerate Siemens AG is teaming up with China’s internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a deal that will see it use Alibaba’s public cloud computing platform to host its MindSphere operating system for the “internet of things.” The deal was announced in Berlin under the watchful eyes of German ...
China’s Xiaomi disappoints on its IPO as share price falls 3 percent
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. is enduring a difficult first day of trading following its initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange, with its share price falling nearly 3 percent. Xiaomi’s debut marks a blow to investor sentiment in the tech sector, as a number of Chinese firms prepare their own debut listings, ...
Tencent plans to spin off its music business with U.S. initial public offering
Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. is planning to spin off its online music streaming business with an initial public offering in the U.S. Bloomberg Sunday cited people familiar with the matter as saying that the move is designed to allow American investors to bet on the growing popularity of music streaming services in China. Last ...
Samsung’s profit declines after 7 straight quarters of growth
After posting seven straight quarters of earnings growth, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said late Thursday that it’s expecting profits to decline in its fiscal second quarter. The company’s revenue was hit by slowing sales of its premium smartphones and reduced demand for its display panels. In its second-quarter earnings guidance, Samsung said it’s expecting an operating ...
Samsung to begin mass production of Arm’s Cortex-A76 chips
Computer chip designer Arm Holdings Ltd. is teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s foundry to begin manufacturing its potentially revolutionary new Cortex-A76 computer processing unit, which clocks in at speeds above 3 gigahertz. The companies said the Cortex-A76 will therefore be even more powerful than Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s Cortex-A75, the Snapdragon 845, which is ...