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Microsoft chooses new chip supplier Xilinx for half of Azure’s AI workloads

By Mike Wheatley Oct 30, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly diversifying its chip suppliers for its Azure cloud infrastructure, using highly specialized semiconductor technology from Xilinx Inc. in addition to those from its chief supplier Intel Corp. Microsoft’s move comes…

Blockchain

Coinbase raises $300M on an $8B valuation to fund its global expansion

By Duncan Riley Oct 30, 2018

Coinbase Inc., the first cryptocurrency exchange to become a “unicorn,” is now multiple times bigger on paper, raising $300 million in new funding on an $8 billion valuation. The Series E round announced today…

Thought Leadership

Mayfield mentors fast-track startups, favoring brains over business models

By R. Danes Oct 30, 2018

How are the world’s richest startups born? They’re not born; they’re made. Wrought one bit at a time from a harebrained, middle-of-the-night idea. That’s how founders go from bootstrapping an air mattress on the floor of…

Startup of the Week

Mesosphere waves the as-a-service wand at Kubernetes

By R. Danes Oct 30, 2018

On track one, we have complicated technologies for hot new trends such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence. On track two are the growing number of tools that collapse these complexities into simpler abstractions —…

Apps

Uber rolls out monthly subscription service in bid to boost growth, counter Lyft

By Maria Deutscher Oct 30, 2018

In a bid to win over more users, Uber Technologies Inc. has started rolling out a subscription plan that offers significant fare discounts for a monthly fee. The service, dubbed Ride Pass, became available today…

Apps

Tepid revenue and user growth dims Facebook earnings – and it won’t end soon

By Robert Hof Oct 30, 2018

Updated: Facebook Inc. took its medicine a few months ago when it said revenue growth would slow down, knocking 19 percent off its stock in a single day. So it’s no surprise that today’s…

Blockchain

IBM, Smart Dubai build first government-backed blockchain in the Middle East

By Kyt Dotson Oct 30, 2018

Smart Dubai, a government initiative bringing cutting-edge technology to the city-state of Dubai, and IBM Corp. today announced the launch of the Dubai Blockchain Platform, the first government-endorsed distributed ledger technology platform-as-a-service in the…

Apps

Apple debuts redesigned, faster iPad Pro, new MacBook Air and Mac Mini

By Maria Deutscher Oct 30, 2018

The tablet market is shrinking, but Apple Inc. is faring quite well, shipping more than 400 million iPads to date including 44.2 million in the past year alone — more than the number of…

Cloud

How the new KubeCon co-chair is scaling up the Kubernetes community

By Kylie Anderson Oct 30, 2018

In the few years since it hit the mainstream market, the historically fast-growing open-source project Kubernetes — a container management platform — has become the de facto deployment platform in cloud-native computing with increasing enterprise…

Big Data

Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine

By Paul Gillin Oct 30, 2018

Dremio Corp. is adding a data catalog to its self-service data analytics platform in a major release announced today. The company is also incorporating new controls for multitenant deployments, boosting end-to-end data encryption, offering options…

explore news

Coinbase raises $300M on an $8B valuation to fund its global expansion

Mayfield mentors fast-track startups, favoring brains over business models

Mesosphere waves the as-a-service wand at Kubernetes

Uber rolls out monthly subscription service in bid to boost growth, counter Lyft

Tepid revenue and user growth dims Facebook earnings – and it won’t end soon

Apple debuts redesigned, faster iPad Pro, new MacBook Air and Mac Mini

Dremio expands scope and boosts speed of its Apache Arrow-based analytics engine

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