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Gartner forecasts worldwide IT spending will hit $3.9T this year

By Mike Wheatley Jan 15, 2020

Gartner Inc. says global spending on information technology will rise to $3.9 trillion in 2020, up just a hair from $3.8 trillion last year, driven chiefly by enterprises buying more cloud software and the…

Policy

Mozilla lays off 70 staff in response to declining revenue

By Mike Wheatley Jan 15, 2020

Firefox browser maker Mozilla Corp. today announced it’s laying off about 70 staff members in order to buy itself more time to start generating revenue from its newest products. Mozilla Chairwoman and interim Chief…

AI

Report: Apple has quietly acquired low-power AI startup Xnor.ai for about $200M

By Maria Deutscher Jan 15, 2020

Apple Inc. has shelled out around $200 million for a Seattle startup specializing in power-efficient artificial intelligence, according to a new report. GeekWire today cited multiple sources as saying that the iPhone maker has…

Apps

Mattermost co-founder survived tough times to launch game-changing collaboration platform

By Mark Albertson Jan 15, 2020

One of the co-founders of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator once termed the struggles of entrepreneurs to launch a business the “trough of sorrow.” As he was trying to run an independent video…

Apps

GitLab’s collaborative approach and common toolset embraced by enterprise developers

By Mark Albertson Jan 15, 2020

When Microsoft Corp. acquired GitHub in June 2018 for $7.5 billion, the move represented more than just a shift in the world of open-source software development platforms. The acquisition highlighted the role that developers…

Apps

Eyeing e-commerce opportunities, Amazon pledges to invest $1B in India

By Maria Deutscher Jan 15, 2020

Amazon.com Inc. will invest $1 billion in India, the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market, to help more local merchants start selling online. The plan was unveiled by Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos (pictured)…

Apps

Finance goes agile as open source checks the security box

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Jan 15, 2020

It wasn’t long ago that mixing financial data and open-source software seemed like the recipe for a security disaster. But yesterday’s problems bring today’s solutions. New DevSecOps tools, such as those offered by DevOps…

Cloud

Elastic brings its data management stack to Kubernetes with ECK

By Maria Deutscher Jan 15, 2020

Elastic N.V. today announced the general availability of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, or ECK, a version of its popular data management toolkit designed specially to run on the container orchestration framework. The Mountain View,…

Apps

GitLab proves operating an all-remote workforce is possible with thousands of employees

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Jan 15, 2020

Since the tech boom of the 1990s, the typical office has transformed in pace with the technology that powers it. Rows of identical gray-fabric cubicles have morphed into casual, brightly decorated open workspaces as…

Blockchain

In a first for precious-metals industry, Tradewind uses blockchain to trade $7.4M in gold

By Kyt Dotson Jan 15, 2020

Financial technology firm Tradewind Markets Inc. announced Tuesday the first-ever trade of high-grade precious metals using its Tradewind Origins distributed ledger blockchain provenance management service. The trade between Agnico Eagle Mines and Bank of…

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Mozilla lays off 70 staff in response to declining revenue

Report: Apple has quietly acquired low-power AI startup Xnor.ai for about $200M

Mattermost co-founder survived tough times to launch game-changing collaboration platform

GitLab’s collaborative approach and common toolset embraced by enterprise developers

Eyeing e-commerce opportunities, Amazon pledges to invest $1B in India

Finance goes agile as open source checks the security box

Elastic brings its data management stack to Kubernetes with ECK

GitLab proves operating an all-remote workforce is possible with thousands of employees

In a first for precious-metals industry, Tradewind uses blockchain to trade $7.4M in gold

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