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Amazon.com Inc. posted its second quarter financial results late on Thursday, and the news was met with rather more applause than its lackluster Prime Day effort last week. On Thursday, the company reported $1.8 billion in sales for Q2, an 80 percent …
Hortonworks’ cloud agnostic HDP 2.3 hits general availability
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc. announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3 at the Hadoop Summit yesterday, less than a month after it first unveiled the release. At the time Hortonworks first showed of HDP 2.3, the company …
Microsoft to give 10 years of support for Windows 10 to everyone
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 users will be given free feature and functionality updates for exactly ten years from the time they first buy the operating system – for example, on a new device. This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update …
Sony’s enterprise drones ready to take off next year
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is getting into the drone business. The company said it’s going to create a joint venture with another Japanese firm to build UAVs that capture images and other data for business uses. Sony’s mobile arm is teaming up …
BlackBerry furthers enterprise push with Athoc acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. is continung its Phoenix-like rise from the ashes with the acquisition of AtHoc Inc., a provider of secure, networked crisis communications to enterprises and government organizations. The deal was announced late Wednesday, and sees BlackBerry acquire a powerful tool as …
Silicon Valley big guns side with Samsung in Apple patent case
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has received the unlikely backing of a host of Silicon Valley tech firms as its long-running patent dispute with Apple rumbles on. The unlikely coalition, which includes Google, eBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., and Facebook, has filed …
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation bids to kickstart container interoperability
The Linux Foundation is teaming up with 18 technology giants and IT organizations to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s hoping to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy containerized cloud applications oriented around microservices. The main …
SAP’s on cloud cruise control as Q2 revenues rise
SAP SE bucked the trend among poor performing legacy software vendors, reporting rising revenues as customers rushed to snap up its new cloud offerings, though the company’s overall profits took a hit due to a tendency among buyers to choose lower-end services. …
Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz plot a route to buy Nokia’s HERE mapping service
We’ve known for a while that German auto makers Audi AG, BMW AG, and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz have been looking to acquire Nokia Corp.’s HERE Maps service, and The Wall Street Journal now says the deal has almost been done. On Tuesday, …
CoreOS shatters container complexity with Tectonic Preview
CoreOS Inc. has launched a preview of its Tectonic platform, an all-encompassing container technology stack combining the CoreOS portfolio with Kubernetes, Google’s open-source project for managing containerized applications. The Tectonic platform is designed to give organizations easy access to Kubernetes, together with …