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VMware’s Horizon Cloud platform brings virtual desktops to Microsoft Azure
VMware Inc. is expanding its Horizon Cloud platform onto Microsoft Corp.’s Azure public cloud. The partnership is designed to help customers accelerate their migration to Windows 10 while making VMware’s suite of virtual desktops and applications available to Azure customers, the companies said. Horizon Cloud made its debut in February on IBM’s SoftLayer cloud. It ...
Nutanix to run hyperconverged infrastructure on IBM Power Systems
“Hyperconverged” infrastructure player Nutanix Inc. will announce early Tuesday that it’s teaming up with IBM Corp. in a partnership that will see its all-in-one data center appliances run on hardware powered by IBM Power Systems chips. The systems will be the first from Nutanix that don’t rely on Intel Corp.-powered servers. Nutanix made its name pioneering the concept ...
VMware acquires mobile app intelligence startup Apteligent
VMware Inc. Monday closed on its second acquisition in the space of a month, buying up the mobile application intelligence startup Apteligent Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Apteligent, which was originally known as Crittercism, began its life as a tool for analyzing mobile application performance and data. Later the tool evolved into a platform for ...
Mintigo lands $10M to take predictive marketing to the next level
Marketing intelligence firm Mintigo Inc., which counts technology giants Equinix Inc., Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc. among its customers, has just raised $10 million in a funding round led by Glilot Capital Partners. Mintigo touts itself as an “intelligence service for marketers,” and offers a cloud-based analytics service called the Predictive Marketing Platform. The ...
Facebook to go on trial next year over allegedly stealing data center designs
Facebook Inc. is set to face trial next year over accusations from a U.K.-based data center firm that its Open Compute Project is built on stolen designs and methods for building modular data centers. The accusations date back to March 2015, when BladeRoom Group Ltd., a company that specializes in building modular data centers from ...
Intel and Samsung take aim at Qualcomm in FTC antitrust case
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has had a rough ride so far this year, and it’s not getting any better. It has had to fend off a lawsuit from one of its largest customers Apple Inc. over accusations of unfair licensing practices. In addition, the company was also accused in January of using anti-competitive ...
Guardant Health lands $360M to develop blood tests for detecting cancer
A startup called Guardant Health that’s hoping to develop blood tests to detect cancer has just landed $360 million in a new funding round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. Guardant, which was founded back in 2013, has developed a “liquid biopsy” test called Guardant360 that relies on blood samples from cancer patients. It uses ...
Report: Sprint looks to restart merger talks with T-Mobile
Mobile network provider Sprint Corp.’s parent company SoftBank Group Corp. is once again talking up the possibility of a merger with rival firm T-Mobile USA Inc., two years after discussions were shot down by U.S. regulators. Bloomberg reported that the possibility of renewed merger talks was raised by SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son during a discussion with ...
Verizon beats out AT&T to grab 5G spectrum holder Straight Path for $3.1B
Verizon Communications Inc. has swooped in to snatch 5G spectrum holder Straight Path Communications Inc. out of the hands of rival telecommunications firm AT&T Inc. in an acquisition valued at $3.1 billion. On Thursday, Verizon said it would pay $184 per share for the company in an all-stock deal. The transaction should close in about ...
Microsoft adds new APIs to its growing Cognitive Services lineup
Microsoft Corp. added to its growing collection of Cognitive Services with the launch of several new application programming interfaces at its Build 2017 conference Wednesday. The company said developers can use the new APIs alongside the tools they’re already familiar with to build new artificial intelligence-powered apps quickly and easily, with customization. Microsoft said it already counts ...