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Cloud

In a big surprise, Pentagon grants Microsoft $10B JEDI cloud contract over Amazon

By Robert Hof Oct 25, 2019

Microsoft Corp. today won the Department of Defense’s hotly contested $10 billion, 10-year cloud computing contract, beating out frontrunner Amazon Web Services Inc. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit had been the presumed favorite for…

Big Data

After acquisitions, Splunk focuses on bridging the gap between development and IT

By Silvia Fregoni Oct 25, 2019

Big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. is committed to expanding its business to broader enterprise solutions and maintain its market growth. Following recent acquisitions, the company’s aspiration is to bridge the gap between developers and…

Emerging Tech

Legendary venture capitalist Don Valentine dies at 87

By Robert Hof Oct 25, 2019

Don Valentine, the longtime founding venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital who led investments in Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Electronic Arts Inc. and many other iconic Silicon Valley firms, died today at age 87…

Apps

Facebook starts testing News tab in mobile app with content from 200 outlets

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Starting today, a few hundred thousand Facebook Inc. users in the U.S. will see a new tab at the bottom of the social network’s mobile app that features articles curated from major media outlets.…

AI

Google adds more developer features to its serverless AI services

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Google LLC today released a set of enhancements for its AI Platform that will give customers more flexibility in how they manage their artificial intelligence projects. AI Platform is a relatively new addition to…

AI

Google deploys new NLP models, Cloud TPUs to make its search engine smarter

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Google LLC is augmenting its search engine with natural-language processing features that it said represent the most significant update of the past five years. The company detailed the changes in a blog post published…

Cloud

Q&A: Commvault, HPE partner for out-of-the-box backup and recovery solutions

By Diego Asturias Oct 25, 2019

Forget the box. The main idea of the new cloud-computing delivery model, software as a service, is to provide simple adoption. All services are literally out-of-the-box. Without managing infrastructure and outsourcing services, enterprises can…

Apps

TikTok video app could pose a national security risk, say US senators

By James Farrell Oct 24, 2019

Chinese-owned video app TikTok should be investigated by intelligence officials for potentially harmful data collection, two U.S. senators said Wednesday. Their request first became known on Thursday, with The Washington Post reporting that a…

Policy

Google expands transparency report to cover requests for cloud and G Suite data

By Mike Wheatley Oct 24, 2019

Google LLC said today it’s expanding the scope of its semiannual transparency report and will begin reporting the number of government requests it receives for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Enterprise customer data.…

Emerging Tech

Qualcomm to invest $200M in 5G wireless startups

By Mike Wheatley Oct 24, 2019

Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. is ready to put its money where its mouth is on 5G technologies. The company is setting up a new $200 million investment fund to back early-stage startups developing fifth-generation wireless…

explore news

After acquisitions, Splunk focuses on bridging the gap between development and IT

Legendary venture capitalist Don Valentine dies at 87

Facebook starts testing News tab in mobile app with content from 200 outlets

Google adds more developer features to its serverless AI services

Google deploys new NLP models, Cloud TPUs to make its search engine smarter

Q&A: Commvault, HPE partner for out-of-the-box backup and recovery solutions

TikTok video app could pose a national security risk, say US senators

Qualcomm to invest $200M in 5G wireless startups

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