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Altaeros grabs $7.5M from SoftBank to deliver broadband networks to remote areas
Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group just can’t stop spending money. The company, which has created a $100 billion “Vision Fund” to invest in tech startups, has just plowed $7.5 million into a company that wants to beat out Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. in the race to deliver Internet connectivity to the world’s most remote ...
HPE now supports Big Switch’s software-defined network products
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is teaming up with Big Switch Networks Inc. in an effort to fight back against so-called “white box” network switch manufacturers. The company said yesterday it’s making Big Switch Network’s network virtualization products available on its family of Altoline open networking Ethernet switches. The partnership will see HPE resell Big Switch ...
Tableau Software acquires ClearGraph for its natural language processing smarts
Tableau Software Inc. said it’s planning to build natural language querying capabilities into its data visualization products after announcing the acquisition today of a startup called ClearGraph. Based in Palo Alto, California, ClearGraph has built technology that enables “smart data discovery” and analysis via spoken commands. Tableau said it bought the company in order to ...
NIST outlines framework for cybersecurity training
A U.S. government agency is working on new cybersecurity initiative aimed at better countering evolving information technology security threats. In a statement Monday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology said it’s planning to upgrade a federal initiative on cybersecurity education and workforce training. NIST, which is responsible for developing a range of computer and ...
US trade commission will probe Apple over Qualcomm’s patent infringement claims
The U.S. International Trade Commission Tuesday announced it’s launching an official investigation into claims that some of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices infringe on technology patents held by Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The ITC said it has begun what’s called a Section 337 investigation into Apple, to determine whether or not it should ban the ...
IBM sues former cloud CIO to prevent his joining Amazon Web Services
IBM Corp. is taking one of its former executives to court in a bid to stop him from starting a new job at its cloud rival Amazon Web Services. Big Blue last week filed a lawsuit against Jeff S. Smith (pictured), the former chief information officer of its cloud computing business, alleging that he has ...
Codefresh teams up with Google to make Kubernetes more accessible
With software containers rapidly emerging as a foundation for enterprise developers to build and distribute business applications, advocates are increasingly turning to tools such as Kubernetes to help them orchestrate their deployments. Kubernetes, which takes its name from the Greek word for “Helmsman” or “Pilot,” is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling and ...
SoftBank CEO Son says he may invest in either Uber or Lyft
Japanese tech giant SoftBank Corp. is setting its sights on ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. with an eye toward a possible investment in either of the two. “We are interested in discussing with Uber, we are also interested in discussing with Lyft, we have not decided which way,” SoftBank Chief Executive Officer ...
‘Dynamic cloud users’ reap important cost and agility benefits, survey says
Organizations that embrace more sophisticated, multicloud environments that leverage new technology trends such as DevOps and application containers will benefit from greater agility, lower costs and faster time to market, says a new report. The report, from digital performance monitoring and management firm New Relic Inc., lumps organizations into three categories based on their responses ...
Qualcomm could be forced to up its bid to buy NXP Semiconductors
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. could be forced to up its $38 billion bid acquire rival chipmaking firm NXP Semiconductors N.V. after the infamous “activist investor” firm Elliot Management Inc. announced it has taken a stake in NXP. On Friday, Elliot officials disclosed that the hedge fund has taken a stake of about $2.2 billion to $2.3 ...