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ZenPayroll grabs $60M from Google Capital to build out cloud-based payroll processing solution
Cloud-based payroll software provider ZenPayroll has cobbled together $60 million in a series B funding round led by Google Capital. The latest round, which also saw participation from Emergence Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkin, brings its total funding to $86.1 million. ZenPayroll has made some big strides since its launch just ...
Intel bids to mask mobile losses with new reporting structure
Intel Corp. has announced a change to the way it reports its quarterly earnings in an all-too-obvious effort to mask the poor performance of its Mobile and Communications division. The chip maker unveiled its new financial reporting structure on Monday, saying it plans to combine its Mobile and Communications group with its PC Client division, ...
Microsoft seals the deal for Revolution Analytics
Microsoft has completed its takeover of Revolution Analytics, the company that commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over recent years with the rise of data scientists. Revolution Analytics offers the Revolution R suite of tools that makes it possible to gain insights from large data ...
Oracle adds Big Data Integration tool to streamline Hadoop deployments
Oracle Corp. yesterday took the wraps off its new Data Integrator for Big Data, a solution that’s designed to help facilitate data integration and help deliver actionable insights to customers. The news comes shortly after Oracle announced a new grand vision for enterprise Big Data, releasing a clutch of new tools aimed at enabling its ...
Open-source eats open-source: Why the innovation will never stop
Technology only exists thanks to innovation. If nobody was pushing the boundaries with fresh ideas, then technology, and the people who depend on it, would have died out with the neanderthals. But while many people might believe the big tech vendors are the ones responsible for driving most of the innovation in computing today, that ...
NSA spying caused 9 percent of foreign firms to dump U.S. clouds
In the weeks following Edward Snowden’s revelations of the NSA’s massive web surveillance program PRISM, speculation was raised about the negative implications it could have on U.S. cloud companies. Now, Forrester Research has taken the time to see just what kind of impact it has had, asking a host of foreign firms whether or not ...
Juniper Networks dumps OpenDaylight, VMware scales back involvement
Juniper Networks Inc. has said it’s pulling out of the OpenDaylight consortium, while VMware Inc. has said it will downgrade its involvement from platinum membership to silver membership. The OpenDaylight consortium is the body set up to maintain the Linux Foundation’s SDN controller project, but the loss of two of its key members is unlikely ...
Mozilla joins Google in banning China’s web registrar over security breach
The Mozilla Foundation, the organization which develops the Firefox web browser, has joined Google in saying that it will stop trusting all new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The move comes in response to a major breach of trust that saw unauthorized credentials issued for Gmail and several other ...
Cisco swoops on SDN startup Embrane
Cisco Systems Ltd. has made a statement of intent with the acquisition of software-defined networking startup Embrane Inc., following its $14 million investment in the firm last year. In an announcement on its website this morning, Cisco said the move was about bolstering its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) efforts, and will allow it to “move ...
AWS gets the thumbs=up from European data privacy watchdog
An assortment of European Union data protection groups, collectively known as the Article 29 Working Party has given its biggest thumbs-up so far to Amazon Web Services (AWS), saying its standard contractual clauses meet all the requirements of EU data protection laws. The Article 29 Working Party’s stamp of approval means that AWS customers who ...