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Uber teams up with NASA to make its flying taxi dream a reality
Uber Technologies Inc.’s dream of providing a flying taxi service might not be all that farfetched. Today the company announced it’s teaming up with NASA to develop the technology and systems they need to take to the skies. The controversial ride-hailing firm, which never ceases to amaze with its combination of constant scandals and revolutionary ideas, said ...
Twilio shares rally as it surpasses $100M in quarterly revenue for the first time
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc. made investors happy Thursday after posting third-quarter earnings results that blew past Wall Street analysts’ forecasts. The company, which builds web service application programming interfaces for software developers to make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages in an automated fashion, surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenues for the first time in its ...
Container monitoring system Prometheus gets a major update
The Prometheus project, an open-source monitoring solution for application containers, has just received a major update that brings greater stability and improved performance to the platform. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the project, said the main updates in Prometheus 2.0 include a more efficient time-series database storage format, better handling of “stale” data ...
Leanplum raises $47M to help put the relationship back into marketing
Mobile marketing platform provider Leanplum Inc. said today it has just wrapped up a $47 million late-stage round of financing that it will use to enhance its products and further its international expansion. The Series D round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ...
IBM takes steps to help EU customers comply with GDPR rules
IBM Corp. says it’s giving its Frankfurt-based cloud data center in Germany a facelift in order to provide customers with greater control over where their data lives, who has access to it and what they can do with this access. The idea is to help IBM’s cloud customers adhere to the new General Data Protection ...
After data leaks, Amazon beefs up security and encryption for its S3 cloud storage
In the wake of several incidents that saw Amazon Web Services Inc. customers leave important data unsecured on the internet, the cloud computing giant today announced no less than five new security features to help prevent them. The announcement comes after high-profile companies including Accenture Plc., Verizon Communications Inc. and the U.S. military contractor TigerSwan, among ...
Microsoft acquires Swing Technologies to add ‘living photos’ to Skype
The Skype video chat service will soon support a new feature called “living photos” following the news Monday that its owner Microsoft Corp. has acquired technology and assets from a company called Swing Technologies. Swing is the startup behind the popular SWNG mobile application. SWNG, available on the iOS platform, is similar to the live photos ...
Survey: Private cloud revenues could pass public cloud in the next year, thanks to OpenStack
Private cloud adoption and revenues are being boosted by growth in the number of multi-cloud deployments, according to a new OpenStack survey carried out by 451 Research Inc. The survey, which was released to coincide with this week’s OpenStack Summit taking place in Sydney, Australia, predicts that deployments of the OpenStack platform will rise at ...
Cloud services are still notching solid growth this year
Public cloud services continue to grow at an extremely rapid rate, according to research firm International Data Corp.’s latest figures, with adoption rising in all three categories: software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service. IDC said that the overall public cloud services market has grown by almost 29 percent ...
Pop star will.i.am’s tech startup creates an AI-powered voice assistant for enterprises
American pop star and entrepreneur will.i.am’s tech startup i.am+ is getting into the enterprise computing game with the creation of a new artificial intelligence-based voice assistant designed to power customer service chatbots. The launch comes as the startup announced it has secured a total of $117 million in venture capital funding, including a recent $89 ...