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Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip maker Intel Corp., plans to invest more than $250 million into autonomous vehicles within the next two years. Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich made the announcement Tuesday at the LA Auto Show’s AutoMobility conference, where he …
GitLab’s gone: Another company bails out of the public cloud
While most enterprises seem to be racing headlong into the cloud as fast as they can, a few have come to the realization that cloud computing isn’t always the Holy Grail for all their infrastructure needs. GitLab Inc., the software developer platform …
Zugata lands $7M round to automate employee performance reviews
Palo Alto-based startup Zugata Inc. has just landed $7 million in a Series A funding round as it bids to do away with hated annual performance reviews at large companies. Venture capital firm Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from General …
Amazon Web Services announces new price cuts for its virtual servers
Amazon Web Services is leading the way with yet another round of price cuts for its instances, which are virtual servers in Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing service. Amazon’s chief evangelist Jeff Barr said the cuts are about passing on cost savings to customers, …
Pivotal’s open source Cloud Foundry lands on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Corp. has announced the general availability of Pivotal Software Inc.’s open source cloud service Cloud Foundry on the software giant’s Azure cloud computing platform, in a move that marries cloud Java with .NET applications. Microsoft previously added support for Cloud Foundry on …
Russia to block LinkedIn for refusing to store user data inside the country
Social networking site LinkedIn.com is set to be blocked in Russia “within days” for refusing to store user’s data within the country. The likely move comes after Russia’s government passed new laws that require any personal data submitted by Russian citizens to …
Google hits back at European Union’s antitrust allegations
Google Inc. is pushing back strongly on European Union allegations that it abused the dominance of its Android smartphone operating system in order to favor its own applications and services. In April, Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s outspoken competition commissioner, filed a long …
Report: The Internet of Things is still mostly hype
Market research firm IDTechEx has poured scorn on the Internet of Things, claiming the concept is mostly just hype because real-world deployments and spending have reached only a small fraction of what many experts predicted. In a new report,”Internet of Things (IoT) …
Report: Simple economics will make edge computing vital for Internet of Things
The excessive cost of moving data means the vast majority of Internet of Things use cases will need to adopt a hybrid cloud solution where data is processed at the edge. That’s according to a new report from David Floyer, chief technology …
Microsoft soups up Azure SQL database with new in-memory capabilities
Microsoft Corp. has made its Azure SQL in-memory capabilities generally available, enabling rapid and advanced data analytics atop of its cloud service. In-memory refers to data being stored in the RAM as a way of accelerating database performance, as it allows information …