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Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has acquired a small San Francisco-based startup called Lobe Artificial Intelligence Inc. as part of its continuing push to help people create deep learning models more easily. Lobe has created a platform that lets users build, train …
Adobe delivers another strong quarter, beating estimates
Updated: Adobe Systems Inc. broke another record for quarterly revenue as it posted third-quarter financial results that once again beat Wall Street’s forecasts. The company, which makes creative design software products such as Photoshop, reported a profit of $666 million, or $1.34 per …
Facebook creates an AI-based tool to automate bug fixes
Facebook Inc. is trying to speed up the time it takes to roll out new software updates and debug any issues in them with a new tool called SapFix that its engineers are building. SapFix, which is still under development, is designed …
Google lifts the lid on how it deletes data from its cloud platform
Google LLC today published an extensive white paper outlining how it deals with user requests to delete data on its cloud platform. The white paper explores how Google handles such requests on its Google Cloud Platform, as well as the processes the company …
LinkedIn open sources TonY for running TensorFlow on Hadoop
LinkedIn Corp. is donating another internally created software project to the open-source community. The now-Microsoft Corp.-owned company has a long history of open-source software contributions, including popular projects such as Apache Kafka and its more recent Dynamometer tool. Its latest effort, called …
Nodle lands $1.5M seed funding to scale its decentralized network for IoT devices
A novel “internet of things” startup called Nodle.io is emerging from stealth mode today backed by $1.5 million in a seed funding round. The startup plans to use the money to expand its alternative IoT network that works by crowdsourcing connectivity from …
NetApp partners with Lenovo on new products and joint venture in China
Data storage company NetApp Inc. is plotting an expansion into China by teaming up with Lenovo Group Holding Ltd. The companies today announced a new technology partnership and plans to create a joint venture company that will allow NetApp to sell its …
Public cloud revenue to grow 17.3 percent in 2019, Gartner says
In its latest forecast for the worldwide public cloud services market released Wednesday, Gartner Inc. said it expects revenue to keep shooting up, by 17.3 percent, to top $206 billion next year. The analyst firm said infrastructure as a service, which includes the …
Pivotal Software stock crashes despite earnings and guidance beat
Updated: Pivotal Software Inc. must be wondering what it did wrong today after seeing its share price plunge by more than 25 percent in after-hours trading. The stock drop came after beating Wall Street’s estimates on both earnings and guidance in its second …
Container monitoring and security firm Sysdig raises $68.5M round
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced a beefy $68.5 million late-stage round of funding that brings its total capital raised to $121.5 million. Insight Venture Partners led the Series D round, which also saw participation from previous investors, Bain Capital Ventures and Accel. …