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Twilio tops earnings estimates as existing customers spend more
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. gave its investors reason to be cheerful with a strong first-quarter earnings report that outperformed Wall Street’s expectations. The company posted a first-quarter loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per share on revenue of $129.1 million, up 49 percent from the same period a year ...
Report: Qualcomm considers exiting the market for data center server chips
Semiconductor firm Qualcomm Inc., the largest supplier of processor chips for smartphones, is ready to give up on its plans to muscle in on the server chip business that’s currently dominated by its rival Intel Corp. Bloomberg cited a “person familiar with the company’s plans” as saying that Qualcomm will either shut down its server ...
Google’s Duplex AI wows audience at I/O (and worries others) with humanlike phone conversations
Google Inc.’s popular Assistant for mobile devices will soon be able to make phone calls on behalf of its users to perform tasks such as scheduling appointments at the hairdresser or booking a table at a restaurant. The new capability has been made possible thanks to an artificial intelligence-based technology called Google Duplex, which dazzled ...
NetApp brings its data storage services to Google’s cloud
Data services company NetApp Inc. is bringing its network-attached storage service to Google’s cloud, the latest step in an ongoing shift away from its old on-premises business model. The company also announced what it calls the “world’s fastest enterprise all-flash array.” It’s a new cloud-connected hardware offering that NetApp says is designed to power artificial ...
Google’s long-awaited Android Things IoT operating system goes live
On the eve of its annual I/O developer conference, Google Inc. Monday announced the general release of its long-awaited Android Things operating system for “internet of things” devices. With the first stable release of the platform, IoT developers can now leverage Google’s machine learning capabilities, its Android partner ecosystem and the Google Assistant voice assistant. Google ...
Nokia buys SpaceTime Insight to strengthen its industrial IoT business
Finnish technology firm Nokia Oyj is doubling down on the “internet of things” as it continues to wash its hands of its consumer-focused businesses. The company today announced it has completed the acquisition of 10-year-old IoT company SpaceTime Insight Inc. for an undisclosed fee. The move comes less than a week after Nokia sold its Nokia ...
The 1 percent solution: Gartner says blockchain is way overhyped
Blockchain technology has been the subject of incessant hype over the past few years, but it barely even begun to make its mark on the enterprise, according to a new survey from Gartner Inc. The research firm found that blockchain has been fully deployed by just 1 percent of chief information officers so far. That was ...
Red Hat and HPE aim to accelerate software container deployments
Red Hat Inc. reckons it has a solution for enterprises that struggle with big deployments of software containers: It’s teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to optimize its OpenShift Container Platform on HPE’s systems, in particular the composable infrastructure platform HPE Synergy. Software containers are used by developers to abstract the hardware and operating system ...
ServiceNow buys startup Parlo for its natural language processing technology
Enterprise workflow automation software provider ServiceNow Inc. won’t stop throwing its money around. The company today announced plans to acquire a startup called Parlo that’s focused on natural language processing, which is a subset of artificial intelligence. ServiceNow said the all-cash deal will close later this month. Financial details weren’t disclosed. The deal comes ahead of ServiceNow’s ...
Google open-sources Asylo, a confidential computing framework for isolating cloud-based apps
Google Inc. is touting a better way for enterprises to secure their cloud applications and corresponding data in what it calls a confidential computing environment. The company is pitching an open-source framework its just released called Asylo, which is designed to provide greater isolation for sensitive cloud workloads. Google engineers Nelly Porter, Jason Garms and ...