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Amazon bags Comcast as its latest marquee customer
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. has bagged itself yet another marquee customer: Comcast Cable, the flagship business subsidiary of cable television provider Comcast Corp. Comcast isn’t exactly a new customer for Amazon, but in its announcement today the company said it chose AWS as its “preferred public cloud infrastructure provider,” which means it’ll ...
Smartsheet acquires UK-based chatbot startup Converse.AI
Collaboration software provider Smartsheet Inc. today said it’s acquiring a British artificial intelligence firm called Converse.AI Inc. that enables its customers to build chatbots to automate business processes. Converse.AI’s secret sauce is its Chatflow technology, which the company describes as a “workflow orchestration engine” that customers can use to build and manage chatbots via a drag-and-drop ...
Network analytics startup Nyansa raises $15M in Intel-led funding round
Network analytics provider Nyansa Inc. is gunning for success after landing a $15 million round of funding from Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corp., and previous investor Formation 8. Nyansa’s main product is its Voyance platform, which helps customers to manage and optimize user performance with infrastructure devices, applications and services. The company ...
Report: IBM to combine services units into one business called ‘IBM Services’
IBM Corp. is believed to be planning a rebranding of its Global Technology Services and Global Business Services units, merging them into a single unit to be called “IBM Services,” according to reports. The two businesses are a part of IBM Global Services, which Wikipedia reckons is the world’s largest business and technology services provider, ...
Apple to transfer control of iCloud services in China to local firm
IPhone maker Apple Inc. is planning to hand over control of its iCloud services in China to a local company in order to comply with a new cybersecurity law enacted in the country last year. Chinese media Friday quoted Apple in a report saying that Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Development, a company owned by the ...
SoftBank eyes $18B IPO for its mobile business
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is planning an initial public offering that could net some 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) for its mobile phone business later this year, according to a report in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper. SoftBank is looking to sell off about 30 percent of the SoftBank Corp. unit as it presses ahead ...
Red Hat says microservices benefits can be realized in just six months
Microservices are increasingly being used to rework existing software applications in addition to creating new information technology initiatives, according to the findings of a new survey by Red Hat Inc. The Linux software company was an early proponent of the microservices architecture, which refers to applications being built as a collection of smaller services rather ...
PC market shows small signs of life as Q4 worldwide shipments grow
Personal computer makers may be quietly encouraged by a new report indicating their market is stabilizing. Fourth-quarter worldwide shipments grew by a modest 0.7 percent from a year ago, according to data released today from International Data Corp. During the fourth quarter, 70.6 million units were shipped, exceeding previous estimates of a 1.7 percent decline. The ...
IBM reportedly will reassign 30,000+ staffers in services division and possibly cut 10,000 jobs
Enterprise software giant IBM Corp. might be on the verge of a return to revenue growth, but it’s also looking to cut much more on the cost side — namely jobs. According to a report in The Register Thursday, IBM is planning to reassign more than 30,000 staff from its Global Technology Services division, which ...
EU could OK Qualcomm’s $47B acquisition of NXP Semiconductor next week
Smartphone chip giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s perseverance looks like it might finally pay off, as reports indicate its proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival firm NXP Semiconductors NV will be approved by European regulators next week. The European Union’s antitrust regulators are all set to clear the acquisition after the two companies addressed concerns raised ...