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Uber’s poised to muscle in on the delivery business
Not satisfied with upsetting every single cab driver on the face of the planet, Uber Inc. is setting out to do the same thing with delivery guys, with a new service to ship products from numerous well known merchants. This wouldn’t be the first time Uber has dabbled in deliveries. It’s been using its network ...
Amazon shows it means business with new online marketplace
Businesses will no longer have to go scouring through big-box stores looking for their office supplies, providing Amazon’s latest venture catches on. The online retail giant has just announced a new marketplace strictly for businesses, fittingly called Amazon Business. The idea is that businesses can buy all the supplies they need to keep up and ...
Declining Windows sales likely to erode Microsoft’s bottom line
Microsoft will face a tough challenge to maintain its revenues in the face of declining Windows license sales, which dropped by 22 percent in its most recent earnings report, analysts believe. The company was forced to admit its Windows revenues tanked last week, even as it reported $4.98 billion in net income on $21.7 billion ...
Maritime data startup Windward lands a $10.8M windfall
Windward, an Israeli-based maritime data analytics startup has just raised $10.8 million funding in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from Series A investor Aleph and others. The company says it will use the new funds to build what it claims will be the largest and most comprehensive martime data analytics ...
Nepal earthquake: How tech firms are pitching in to help
In the wake of last weekend’s terrible earthquake in Nepal, tech firms including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have pitched in to help with the relief efforts. Apple has teamed up with the American Red Cross, and is asking for donations to help the rescue effort via its iTunes Store. According to Apple, 100 ...
Cloudy king? AWS said to be bigger than Google, Microsoft, IBM AND Salesforce combined
Few were surprised to learn that Amazon Web Services is the leading cloud player when it comes to the amount of cash it’s raking in, but is it really larger than all four of its closest competitors – Google, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce.com, Inc? It is if you believe the latest analysis from Synergy Research ...
Google makes a case for encrypting the Web
China kicked up a storm earlier this month when it was alleged to have used its “Great Cannon” weapon to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against GitHub, a code repository for open source projects, and GreatFire.org, a project that provides servers to aid Chinese citizens in circumventing the national firewall. The attack ...
Nokia pours scorn on rumors its planning a smartphone comeback
Nokia Technologies has come out to quickly squash rumors it’s planning an imminent return to the smartphone business. The Finnish company, which was at one time the world’s biggest and best known mobile phone maker, exited the handset business last year when it sold its core business to Microsoft Corp. for $7.2 billion in 2013. ...
IBM voted #1 cloud by enterprise users
Following a rather flat looking set of financial numbers released this week, IBM could certainly do with a boost. Which is exactly why the company will welcome the results of a new survey out of 451 Research LLC., this week that reveals that Big Blue is the choice cloud services provider for enterprise users. 451 ...
Spinning disk shipments to crumble as Flash accelerates
Yet more evidence that flash is the future has arrived by way of Nidec Corp., a Japanese spinning disk electric motor manufacturer, which says that disk drive shipments will fall by 3.7 percent between 2013 and 2020. The hit will be felt most of all in the data center, with enterprise-related shipments set to slump ...