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Blockchain

GMO Internet quits bitcoin mining business following $321M loss

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2018

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Inc. is walking away from the cryptocurrency industry, announcing that will no longer develop, manufacture or sell bitcoin mining hardware. The decision, while directly related to the precipitous drop in the…

Apps

Instagram backtracks after ‘accidentally’ releasing new version with horizontal swiping

By Duncan Riley Dec 27, 2018

Facebook Inc.-owned photo sharing app Instagram has been forced to backtrack after “accidentally” releasing a new version that did away with scrolling and replaced it with a Tinder-like horizontal swipe feature. Instagram users were presented…

Big Data

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

Japan’s information technology systems company NEC Corp. said today it’s acquiring Denmark’s KMD Holding in a deal valued at 8 billion Danish Kroner ($1.22 billion). The deal, which is NEC’s second-largest acquisition ever, is…

Infra

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

By Mike Wheatley Dec 27, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump is taking another stab at Chinese technology firms Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. Trump is looking at issuing a new executive order that would ban U.S. wireless carriers…

Emerging Tech

Want software-first agility? Get with event-driven architecture, says Accenture

By R. Danes Dec 27, 2018

Think microservices are as granular as it gets in modern information technology? Then shake hands with the new reactive, event-driven architecture. This method triggers reactions where teeny-tiny events happen, instead of waiting for longer…

Cloud

Cloud AI services dose big pharma with overdue speed, agility

By R. Danes Dec 27, 2018

What industry could stand to pick up its pace more than pharmaceutical research? Look at the price of drugs in the U.S. It can take over 10 years and billions of dollars to develop…

Infra

‘Shift left’ prevents missteps that lead to 90% of breaches in cloud computing

By R. Danes Dec 27, 2018

Lugging workloads from on-premises to public cloud is straining when done with flimsy security policies. Making sure workloads are secure and compliant the minute they arrive in cloud is even harder. How do companies…

Cloud

The perils of wholesale cloud adoption: ‘It ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it’

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Dec 27, 2018

“It ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it … that’s what gets results” is the ear-wormy lyric from 80’s Brit pop bands Fun Boy Three and Bananarama. Turns out the advice is…

Cloud

Looking to 2019 tech IPOs, fintech startup Carta raises $80M at $800M valuation

By Maria Deutscher Dec 27, 2018

Carta Inc., a financial technology startup that helps fellow tech companies manage their equity programs, today announced that it has secured $80 million in funding at a $800 million valuation. The Series D round…

Cloud

AIOps: pulling critical data out of data lakes

By Bev Bellile Dec 27, 2018

In the pre-cloud world of computing, there was a perception that everything processed in the cloud was just like it was processed in a data center, only in a vague “over there” location rather…

explore news

GMO Internet quits bitcoin mining business following $321M loss

Instagram backtracks after ‘accidentally’ releasing new version with horizontal swiping

NEC to acquire Danish IT company KMD for $1.2B

Trump considers executive order to ban purchases from Huawei and ZTE

Looking to 2019 tech IPOs, fintech startup Carta raises $80M at $800M valuation

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