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Facebook says it ‘unintentionally’ harvested 1.5M users’ email contacts

By Maria Deutscher Apr 18, 2019

Another month, another Facebook Inc. privacy scandal. Following an exposé from Business Insider, the social networking giant today said that it has “unintentionally uploaded” the email contacts of 1.5 million users to its systems.…

Cloud

CloudBees buys Electric Cloud to strengthen its DevOps platform

By Mike Wheatley Apr 18, 2019

CloudBees Inc. is adding release management, orchestration and automation capabilities to its suite of continuous integration and delivery or CI/CD tools for developers after acquiring rival Electric Cloud Inc. CloudBees, which develops the popular Jenkins…

Emerging Tech

Google’s VR painting app Tilt Brush is coming to Oculus Quest headset

By Kyt Dotson Apr 18, 2019

The best open-source virtual reality painting app, the Google LLC-developed Tilt Brush, is coming to Facebook Inc.’s all-in-one standalone VR headset the Oculus Quest. Facebook announced the upcoming software migration Wednesday. Tilt Brush is Google’s…

AI

Microsoft won’t share facial recognition technology with police, citing human rights concerns

By James Farrell Apr 17, 2019

While China doubles down on its efforts to track its citizens and concerns fester in the U.S. that a similar Orwellian super-surveillance might happen in the country, Microsoft Corp. may have just alleviated some of…

Emerging Tech

New Microsoft Surface Hub 2S to start shipping in June for $8,999

By Duncan Riley Apr 17, 2019

A year after announcing that it was coming, Microsoft Corp. today finally released details of its next-generation Surface Hub mega tablet along with giving would-be buyers a release date and a price. Called the…

Apps

Salesforce buys location intelligence provider MapAnything

By Mike Wheatley Apr 17, 2019

Salesforce.com Inc. has been busier than usual this week, acquiring a location-based intelligence software and services startup while adding new tools to its artificial intelligence-based Einstein Platform Services suite. The startup concerned is MapAnything…

Emerging Tech

Report: Uber close to sealing deal to sell off part of its self-driving car unit

By Duncan Riley Apr 17, 2019

Uber Technologies Inc. is close to sealing a deal to sell off part of its self-driving car unit to a group of investors ahead of its initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Reports…

Apps

All clear for IPOs? Pinterest and Zoom both pop in initial trading

By Duncan Riley Apr 17, 2019

Updated: Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Pinterest Inc. both saw their shares pop this morning after each completed initial public offerings in a continuing stream of tech IPOs this year. The new offerings were…

Cloud

Google hires 27-year SAP veteran Robert Enslin to boost cloud sales and support

By Mike Wheatley Apr 17, 2019

Google Cloud’s new Chief Executive Thomas Kurian is making good on a promise to revamp the company’s executive team, hiring former SAP SE veteran Robert Enslin as its new president of global customer operations.…

Infra

Revising its IT spending forecast, Gartner warns of slower growth across all segments

By Mike Wheatley Apr 17, 2019

Analysts at Gartner Inc. today refreshed their worldwide information technology spending forecast for 2019 and the upshot is that slower times are ahead — especially for data center systems. The research firm says total…

explore news

Facebook says it ‘unintentionally’ harvested 1.5M users’ email contacts

Google’s VR painting app Tilt Brush is coming to Oculus Quest headset

Microsoft won’t share facial recognition technology with police, citing human rights concerns

New Microsoft Surface Hub 2S to start shipping in June for $8,999

Report: Uber close to sealing deal to sell off part of its self-driving car unit

All clear for IPOs? Pinterest and Zoom both pop in initial trading

Revising its IT spending forecast, Gartner warns of slower growth across all segments

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