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Indian IT firms enraged over decision to double H1-B and L1 visa fees
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has taken issue with President Barack Obama over the government’s move to double the cost of working visas for IT professionals, saying it could severely impact Indian IT companies that operate in the U.S. The proposed increase in H1-B and L1 visa fees stems from a new bill called the “9/11 Health ...
Google to incubate its robotics and drone divisions under Google X
Google is planning an organizational reshuffle that will see its secretive robotics department and drone business folded into its Google X labs. Google’s robotics division, and the drone group it created when it acquired Titan Aerospace in 2014, will both fall under the Google X umbrella when the reshuffle takes place some time next year, ...
Juniper admits to “multiple security issues” with ScreenOS
Juniper Networks Inc. has provided more details about the “unauthorized code” found in its ScreenOS operating system for firewalls. The company made the revelation that apparent “spying code” was found in ScreenOS versions 6.2.0r15 to 6.2.0r18, and 6.3.0r12 to 6.3.0r20 last week. Over the weekend, the company posted an article on the knowledge base section ...
Juniper hacked: “Unauthorized code” found in ScreenOS
Networking giant Juniper Networks Inc. has made the somewhat embarrassing admission that it’s found “spying” code implanted into certain versions of ScreenOS, the operating system for its NetScreen firewall and VPN products. The admission is an alarming one mainly because it smacks of some kind of state-sponsored spying initiative, and because the code has been ...
Red Hat rises on strong Q3 revenues
Linux poster boy Red Hat Inc. has beaten Wall Street analyst’s expectations once again in its latest fiscal Q3 earnings report, sending its share price rising in after hours trading. The open-source software giant reported a net income of $47 million for the quarter, or $0.25 per share. Meanwhile, non-GAAP earnings hits $0.48 per share ...
Salesforce said to be close to completing $600M SteelBrick acquisition
Salesforce.com, Inc. is refusing to comment on a story published by The Information that claims it’s negotiating to buy sales automation solution provider SteelBrick Inc. for $600 million. Salesforce put out the usual statement issued by big vendors when such rumors surface, saying it doesn’t like to comment on “rumors and speculation”. Meanwhile, SteelBrick’s chief ...
Carbonite snaps up Seagate’s EVault backup service for $14M
Cloud-based backup provider Carbonite Inc. has splashed out $14 million in cash to take Seagate Technology Plc’s Evault cloud backup service off its hands, the companies announced yesterday. Carbonite, which is named after the mysterious substance in which Star War’s flyer Hans Solo was frozen by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, specializes in backup and ...
Cloud Foundry brings vendors into line with new PaaS certification
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), which bills itself as the industry standard Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), yesterday unveiled a new certification standard created to assure IT organizations of compatibility between multiple implementations of the open-source Cloud Foundry PaaS. In what is no small feat, some of the biggest PaaS vendors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Pivotal Software Inc., ...
Oracle bigs up cloud potential as on-premise revenues slide again
Oracle saw its total revenues fall once again as it posted its fiscal 2016 Q2 earnings results, but the database giant can take encouragement from substantial growth in its cloud business that helped the company to beat out Wall Street analyst’s expectations. The Redwood City, California-based giant posted total revenues of $8.9 billion for the ...
Sophos acquires SurfRight to beef up synchronized security strategy
U.K.-based network and endpoint security outfit Sophos Group plc is moving into the advanced threat prevention realm with the $31.8 million all-cash acquisition of SurfRight, the Dutch-based maker of the popular “HitManPro” malware scanning and removal tools. Sophos says the plan is to integrate SurfRight’s signature-less endpoint threat detection and response technology into its own line ...
