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HP posts double-digit sales growth as it continues to lead the PC market
Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. reported solid second-quarter earnings today, prompting company executives to boast that it remains well ahead of its rivals in both of its major markets. The hardware giant also said its chief financial officer, Catherine Lesjak, will leave the company by early next year. HP reported earnings after certain costs ...
Andy Rubin’s startup Essential reportedly cancels next phone, explores possible sale
Essential Products Inc., a startup created by Google Inc.’s Android operating system creator Andy Rubin (pictured), is reported to have canceled its plans for a second smartphone, and is instead exploring the possibility of selling itself. That’s according to Bloomberg, which also reported that any sale is far from set in stone, and Essential is still forging ahead ...
Intelligent document automation provider Conga lands $47M in funding
Intelligent document automation company AppExtremes LLC, which does business as Conga, is ready to double down on its global expansion plans after landing a $47 million round of funding Thursday led by Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The company said it plans to use the cash to fund the development of its product offerings. ...
Nutanix shares fall on bigger-than-expected third-quarter loss
Nutanix Inc., a provider of data center infrastructure for enterprises, saw its share price fall by more than 4 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after posting a bigger-than-expected loss in its fiscal third quarter. The company posted a loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of 21 cents per share on revenue of $289.4 ...
C3 IoT partners with Intel to bring AI to on-premises data centers
C3 Inc., popularly known as C3 IoT, has partnered with Intel Corp. on a new hardware appliance for artificial intelligence workloads that’s chiefly aimed at on-premises data center jobs. C3 IoT said today that its new appliance is a “full-stack turnkey system” that can be used to create and train deep learning and other kinds of ...
As NetApp guidance comes in weak again, shares dip and then recover
NetApp Inc. saw its share price initially dip once again after issuing disappointing guidance that eclipsed solid fourth-quarter earnings posted Wednesday. The data storage firm posted profits after certain costs such as stock compensation of $288 million, or $1.05 per share, on revenue of $1.64 billion, up 11 percent from a year ago. Wall Street ...
Google joins Amazon and Microsoft as a leader in cloud infrastructure, Gartner says
Google Inc.’s public cloud platform has finally entered into the big time, if Gartner Inc. is to be believed. The analyst firm has just named Google Cloud Platform as a leader in its latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, joining rivals Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have had the ...
CloudHealth brings its monitoring capabilities to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service
Multicloud platform management provider CloudHealth Technologies Inc. is extending its product to customers using container orchestration services on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company is announcing general availability of its Container Module support for Amazon’s Elastic Container Service, which is used to run Docker containers on the AWS cloud. The idea is to ...
Microsoft and Accenture to deliver custom AI services for industry verticals
Microsoft Corp. says it’s building an array of custom artificial intelligence services for specific industries in partnership with Accenture Plc. Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial partner channels & programs, announced the initiative in a blog posted on LinkedIn. It said it builds on the customized virtual support agents it has built for ...
Facebook open-sources Katran, its latest network load balancing software
With billions of people all over the world using its services, Facebook has long been forced to develop its own networking infrastructure in order to cope with the load because the systems and technologies to do so simply don’t exist elsewhere. Not only that, but the company has a long history of sharing those developments, ...