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The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: For Microsoft, it’s all about the apps
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Maria Deutscher’s profile of Canonical’s strategy here. Last month’s Microsoft Build Conference gave us the first close-up look at the company’s strategy to reassert its dominance in the computing ...
Uber could be worth $50 billion by the end of the month
Uber Inc., which builds the ride-sharing app of the same name that has taxi firms the world over running scared, could soon be worth $50 billion if rumors of a new $2 billion funding round hold true. Uber apparently told investors of its plan to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion last Friday, The ...
Russian-made Elbrus chips, PCs and servers hit the market
Ever since Edward Snowden lifted the lid on the full extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, foreign nations have been looking for alternatives to U.S. manufactured equipment. In the wake of Snowden’s revelations, one Russian firm announced its intention to build its own homegrown microprocessors, and today these have finally gone on sale. Moscow ...
Tableau Software thrashes analyst expectations in Q1
Tableau Software Inc. posted blockbuster first quarter of 2015 earnings, showing an astonishing 75 percent revenue growth year-over-year to $130.1 million. That figure helped the firm to smash the estimate among analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters of $115 million in revenue. Tableau also posted earnings of 8 cents a share, beating out analyst predictions of ...
New Relic aims to keep a lid on Docker containers
While Docker containers are still relatively rare as far as actual production deployments go, security will be a major challenge for IT operations teams in the coming years. A number of Docker security concerns have already been raised, but data analytics firm New Relic Inc. is hopeful it has the tools to address them. The ...
Teradata stock price tumbles on poor Q1 earnings
Teradata Corp’s stock price took a tumble after it reported disappointing first quarter earnings numbers yesterday. The Big Data analytics firm saw its first quarter revenues slip by seven percent to $582 million, compared to $628 million in the previous year. Also, net income for the quarter fell to $22 million, compared to $59 million ...
Uber bids $3B to take HERE Maps off Nokia’s hands
Alternative transportation outfit Uber Inc. has yet to make any major acquisitions, but that could be about to change, with rumors emerging that its entered the race to snap up Nokia’s mapping product HERE, according to The New York Times. That Nokia is looking to get rid of HERE is no secret. The company said ...
SAP takes a shot at the Internet of Things with its Hana Cloud Platform
SAP SE might be struggling to get its cloud business up and running, but that hasn’t deterred it from pushing onwards and upwards. And so what’s next? The Internet of Things (IoT). The company unveiled its HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) for the IoT at Sapphire Now 2015 yesterday, before saying it plans to deepen its ...
SAP launches a one-click app store for the enterprise
When it comes to downloading new apps the process for consumers is so easy they barely even think about it. Simply click on ‘download’, wait and while and, voilà! There it is, ready to be played with. If only it were that easy in the enterprise, where buying software is often a laborious process involving ...
Google unveils its Bigtable NoSQL database “as-a-service”
You might not have heard of Google’s Bigtable database, but you’re almost certainly a regular user. That’s because it’s the database that powers the majority of Google’s products, including search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube and more. It’s a huge and extremely powerful database capable of handling all kinds of data. And now Google is putting it in ...