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Google makes it easier to build chattier chatbots in Hangouts Chat

By Mike Wheatley Jun 19, 2019

Google LLC is combining its Hangouts Chat communications tool today with its natural language understanding service Dialogflow to help developers build more conversational chatbots that can be integrated with outside applications. Google introduced Hangouts…

Apps

API development environment startup Postman raises $50M

By Mike Wheatley Jun 19, 2019

Postman Inc., creator of the popular application programming interface development environment of the same name, is looking to build up some steam after landing a $50 million funding round led by Charles River Ventures.…

Apps

Google updates its educational tools for teachers

By Mike Wheatley Jun 19, 2019

Google LLC is making some significant updates to its Google for Education learning suite today, adding new tools and service to help teachers streamline their grading workflows and find better apps to help with their…

Policy

Google will invest $1 billion in San Francisco Bay Area housing projects

By James Farrell Jun 18, 2019

Google LLC will invest $1 billion to build houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company announced Tuesday. The housing crisis and homelessness in the area has largely been blamed on the tech…

Security

Patch now: Netflix engineer identifies serious security flaws in Linux and FreeBSD

By Duncan Riley Jun 18, 2019

An engineer at Netflix Inc. has discovered a number of previously unknown serious security flaws in Linux and FreeBSD that can leave servers vulnerable to denial of services attacks and other forms of attack.…

Apps

Report: Amazon’s Twitch buys old-school social media provider Bebo for $25M

By Duncan Riley Jun 18, 2019

Amazon.com Inc.-owned streaming service Twitch was reported today to have acquired Bebo Inc., an early social media provider for $25 million. Founded in 2005, Bebo first competed against Myspace and later Facebook Inc. for social…

Blockchain

And the Libra backlash begins: Politicians target Facebook’s crypto ambitions

By Duncan Riley Jun 18, 2019

Less than a day after being announced, Facebook Inc.’s Libra cryptocurrency has already sparked a backlash as critics that include prominent politicians on both sides the Atlantic raised concerns and called for its rollout…

Cloud

With Azure Bastion, Microsoft delivers private virtual machine access

By Mike Wheatley Jun 18, 2019

Microsoft Corp. today announced a preview of its new Azure Bastion service, which allows companies to connect to Azure virtual machines via a private internet connection. The company said the managed service is an additional…

Cloud

Adobe’s stock on the rise as it reports record revenue

By Mike Wheatley Jun 18, 2019

Creativity software firm Adobe Inc. saw its shares rise more than 4% in after-hours trading today after posting second-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company, which sells the popular Photoshop image editing tool…

Big Data

MongoDB grows its solution portfolio while boosting its flagship platform

By James Kobielus Jun 18, 2019

MongoDB has built a substantial business on the back of its open-source, NoSQL document database. This week at its annual developer conference in New York, it showed that it maintains a healthy pipeline of…

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API development environment startup Postman raises $50M

Google updates its educational tools for teachers

Google will invest $1 billion in San Francisco Bay Area housing projects

Patch now: Netflix engineer identifies serious security flaws in Linux and FreeBSD

Report: Amazon’s Twitch buys old-school social media provider Bebo for $25M

And the Libra backlash begins: Politicians target Facebook’s crypto ambitions

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