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Fastly launches edge cloud platform to speed up content delivery at the network edge
Fastly Inc. is expanding beyond its content delivery network roots with the introduction of a new “edge cloud” platform that offers a range of new capabilities for developers at the edge of the network. Fastly was founded in 2011 and has proven to be a massive hit among publishers, as its platform provides them with ...
Continuum Analytics’ Anaconda data science platform gets IBM Power boost
IBM Corp. is making the Anaconda data science platform available on its Cognitive Systems platform in collaboration with Continuum Analytics. In addition, the company announced the formation of a machine learning work group within the OpenPOWER Foundation. The group, which includes Google Inc., will work to define machine learning frameworks compatible with OpenPOWER and also ...
In new update, Microsoft Flow gets more streamlined approvals
Microsoft Corp. today updated its Flow task automation tool with new capabilities that among other things speed up the approval process. Microsoft launched Flow in November as a competing platform to the popular workflow automation service IFTTT, which stands for “If This Then That.” IFTTT is a web service that uses configurable templates, called “recipes,” to ...
Princeton researchers may have just won the ad blocking war – for now, anyway
A Princeton University researcher may have just dealt Facebook Inc. a sucker punch in its war against ad blockers, creating a new tool that goes undetected by the company’s anti-ad-blocking software. Computer scientist Arvind Narayanan and Princeton undergraduate Grant Storey have created a new kind of ad blocker that works in a similar way to ...
Google quietly launches a new job applicant tracking service
Google Inc. has quietly introduced a new job advertising service called “Google Hire” that appears to have been developed by Bebop, a startup created by VMware Inc. co-founder Diane Greene that the search giant acquired in 2015. Neither company has made any official announcement, Bebop’s website is now advertising job vacancies at the hire.withgoogle.com domain, ...
Report: Struggling database provider Basho said to be looking for a buyer
Basho Technologies Inc., the company that develops the popular Riak NoSQL database, is looking to sell itself after seeing its growth stall, according to reports. The Register cites a “source close to Basho” as saying that the company is “working on a sales process,” without providing any details on potential buyers. Basho began life back ...
Microsoft stops fixing older Windows versions on newer PCs
Microsoft Corp. will no longer be providing software updates to anyone running an older version of Windows even on computers powered by the latest Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. microprocessors. The company has reportedly stopped serving up software fixes to PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on Intel’s new Kaby Lake chips and ...
Application health monitoring platform PagerDuty lands $43.8M funding
Digital operations management platform provider PagerDuty Inc. has just landed a $43.8 Million Series C funding round led by venture capital firm Accel, with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal. PagerDuty claims its platform has revolutionized the way information technology teams are notified of incidents regarding their ...
Western Digital moves to block Toshiba’s chip business sale
Toshiba Corp.’s plans to sell its semiconductor business have hit a roadblock, as rival storage firm Western Digital Corp. has said any sale would contravene the terms of their joint venture. Toshiba has set up its semiconductor business as a separate company so it can easily be sold off, to make up for losses incurred ...
Google tests a collaborative approach to machine learning
Google Inc. is plotting to speed up machine learning with a new “federated learning” approach that sees training data spread across millions of individual Android devices. The approach is different from traditional machine learning techniques, where datasets are distributed across multiple cloud servers. It enables machine learning models to be trained from actual users’ interactions with ...