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Blackstone invests $400M in cybersecurity firm FireEye

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Cloud cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. saw its stock jump more than 17% in late trading today after announcing a $400 million investment from the private equity firm Blackstone Group. Blackstone will also grab a…

Big Data

Red Hat, Cloudera try to bring big data up to post-COVID speed

By R. Danes Nov 19, 2020

Many companies used to talk about speeding up development and delivery of digital services. Then COVID-19 disrupted traditional ways of doing business, and the talking turned action. But much of digital transformation involves notoriously…

Apps

Google says RCS chat is now available worldwide, with encryption coming soon

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Google LLC said today its Rich Communication Services messaging capability is now available worldwide, albeit with a few exceptions, and that it will add end-to-end encryption for some beta testers later this month. For…

Cloud

FinOps Foundation aims to tame runaway cloud spend

By R. Danes Nov 19, 2020

Cloud has given software engineers practically limitless access to resources — great for rapid, iterative development and innovation; perhaps not so great for controlling costs. Now, companies that have embraced cloud are learning that…

Apps

Facebook antitrust probe is targeting WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions

By Duncan Riley Nov 19, 2020

The antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc. are entering their final stages, targeting the social media giant’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, according to a report today from The Washington Post. Reports that Facebook was being…

Cloud

Workday’s stock falls as COVID-19 weighs on growth prospects

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Workday Inc. saw its stock fall more than 2% in after-hours trading despite posting a strong third quarter that easily beat Wall Street’s forecasts and raising its end-of-year guidance again. The company, which sells…

Cloud

AWS’ AI tools help customers adjust to changes amid pandemic

By Maria Deutscher Nov 19, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about how a few of its customers have used Amazon Textract and other artificial intelligence offerings in its public cloud to respond to operational changes during the…

Emerging Tech

Quantum software startup Zapata Computing reels in $38M round

By Maria Deutscher Nov 19, 2020

Zapata Computing Inc., a Harvard spinoff working to make it easier to write software for quantum computers, today disclosed that it has closed a $38 million funding round to support research and go-to-market activities. Comcast…

AI

Facebook says upgraded AI models spot nearly 95% of hate speech it removes

By Maria Deutscher Nov 19, 2020

Facebook Inc. removed 22.1 million pieces of hate speech content on its namesake social network in the third quarter, 94.7% of which was detected automatically by artificial intelligence models. The company shared the figures…

Apps

Facebook’s new Chrome API helps websites load faster and stay responsive

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Facebook Inc.’s developer team says it worked with Google LLC to implement a new JavaScript application programming interface in the Chrome browser that can help website developers avoid the tradeoff between page load performance…

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Google says RCS chat is now available worldwide, with encryption coming soon

Facebook antitrust probe is targeting WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions

Workday’s stock falls as COVID-19 weighs on growth prospects

Quantum software startup Zapata Computing reels in $38M round

Facebook says upgraded AI models spot nearly 95% of hate speech it removes

Facebook’s new Chrome API helps websites load faster and stay responsive

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