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IBM lands $740M contract to provide IT services to Australian government
IBM Corp.’s cloud computing ambitions just got a big boost with the news today that it signed up Australia’s federal government as its latest marquee customer. The five-year deal, said to be worth $740 million, ensures that Australian government agencies that don’t already work with IBM will now be able to buy its products and services ...
Airwallex gets an $80M boost to ease cross-border payments
Australian financial technology company Airwallex Pty Ltd. said Tuesday that it has closed on a massive $80 million funding round led by its backers Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sequoia China. The Melbourne-based firm’s Series B funding round is believed to be the second-largest-ever financing deal for an Australian startup. Other participants in the round include China’s ...
Baidu ups its bet on AI with new chips, a developer platform and self-driving buses
China has made no secret of its desire to lead the world in artificial intelligence, and early Wednesday in Beijing one of its top technology companies took another step toward helping it reach that goal. Baidu Inc., China’s leading search engine provider, said at its Create 2018 developer conference it was updating its Baidu Brain platform ...
Micron stock falls after Chinese court bans sale of its memory chips
U.S. flash memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. saw its share price take a pummeling today on the news that a Chinese court has temporarily banned it from doing business in that country. Micron’s Taiwan-based rival United Microelectronic Corp. said in a statement that the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China ...
Google shares details on its BeyondCorp ‘zero trust’ security approach
Google LLC today published a lengthy blog post detailing how it implemented the BeyondCorp security approach within its organization, in order to control who accesses its systems and data. BeyondCorp is a “zero trust” security framework that shifts access controls from the perimeter to individual devices and users, allowing employees to work securely from any ...
HTC to cut 22% of its workforce to stem revenue losses
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. is cutting about 22 percent of its workforce as it strives to become more profitable. The company said Monday that the cuts would take place at its main manufacturing plant in its Taiwan base, with about 1,500 staff set to be let go. The workforce reduction comes at a time ...
Neurala launches its Brain Builder to speed up neural network data preparation
Artificial intelligence startup Neurala Inc. wants to help developers create deep learning applications faster by speeding up the process of feeding data to neural networks to train them. The company is launching a beta of its new Neurala Brain Builder program, which is a software-as-a-service platform that can tag data used in training models more ...
In a sweeping deal, Dell becomes a public company again
Updated Monday: Enterprise information technology giant Dell Technologies Inc. Monday announced it will become a publicly traded company again following a deal to buy out investors in a stock created to track the performance of its subsidiary VMware Inc. The deal, which follows months of deliberation by Dell’s board of directors over its strategic options, ...
Formula 1 races to take advantage of Amazon’s cloud and AI
Amazon Web Services Inc. is strengthening its pole position in the public cloud market, adding Formula One Group as its latest marquee customer. The public cloud infrastructure provider said Formula 1 is moving the majority of its information technology systems to the AWS cloud in order to take advantage of its machine learning and data ...
VMware updates Pivotal Container Service with latest Kubernetes release
VMware Inc. and its Dell Technologies Inc. sister Pivotal Software Inc. are updating their jointly developed Pivotal Container Service with features aimed at addressing developer productivity, high availability, management and operations, and networking and security. The service, dubbed PKS, helps organizations easily create software containers that bundle applications together in a way that enables them to be ...