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Google Play Store will now rank apps based on performance and quality

By Duncan Riley Aug 3, 2017

Android users will be presented better-performing apps in the Google Play Store as the search giant announced that it has started ranking apps in search results. Now, “quality apps,” those that rate highly on “performance and quality…

Infra

Researcher who stopped WannaCry arrested for involvement with banking virus

By Duncan Riley Aug 3, 2017

In a surprising twist to what was until now a positive story, the security researcher who stopped the WannaCry ransomware attack earlier this year has been arrested for his involvement with a banking “trojan”…

Big Data

Accenture beefs up cloud services play with two more acquisitions

By Mike Wheatley Aug 3, 2017

Technology consultancy Accenture Plc on Thursday announced it’s buying two more startups, bringing its total number of acquisitions this summer to seven. The company said it’s acquiring the marketing and sales consultancy Brand Learning…

Big Data

Big-data firm Hortonworks’ shares jump 18% on accelerating revenue growth

By Robert Hof Aug 3, 2017

Big-data company Hortonworks Inc. today continued a turnaround from a rough patch last year, reporting second-quarter revenues that set a new record and topped analysts’ forecasts. The Santa Clara, California-based company, whose software helps…

Emerging Tech

DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace

By Kyt Dotson Aug 3, 2017

A new decentralized marketplace called DMarket announced its intention to become the first service to allow users to trade virtual items between game worlds. Using distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain, DMarket intends to…

Emerging Tech

Facebook translations now rely entirely on neural networks

By Eric David Aug 3, 2017

With more than 2 billion users, Facebook Inc. has to deal with dozens of different languages on its social network, which poses a bit of a barrier to the company’s new mission to “bring…

Cloud

Heptio debuts two open-source tools for protecting Kubernetes clusters

By Maria Deutscher Aug 3, 2017

Heptio Inc. exited stealth mode late last year with $8.5 million in funding to commercialize Kubernetes, the popular open-source framework for managing software containers. Ten months later, the startup is making two major contributions that…

Apps

DXC’s security expertise enables new applications for ServiceNow

By Aaron Melgar Aug 3, 2017

As the ServiceNow platform expands beyond information technology, domain expertise in the new verticals like human resources and security is required to successfully deploy a new managed service. Through a series of acquisitions, Fruition…

Infra

Veeam and VMware extend team-up with Continuous Data Protection

By R. Danes Aug 3, 2017

VMware Inc. customers have long favored Veeam Software Inc.’s backup and recovery services tailor-made for virtual machines. But since goliaths Dell Technologies and Amazon Web Services Inc. have joined with VMware, some wonder if…

Cloud

Contract automation startup Ironclad raises $8M round led by Accel

By Maria Deutscher Aug 3, 2017

While other parts of the enterprise are becoming increasingly automated, many legal departments still handle the administrative work involved in day-to-day operations manually. Ironclad Inc. is working to change that one contract at a…

explore news

Google Play Store will now rank apps based on performance and quality

Researcher who stopped WannaCry arrested for involvement with banking virus

Accenture beefs up cloud services play with two more acquisitions

Big-data firm Hortonworks’ shares jump 18% on accelerating revenue growth

DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace

Facebook translations now rely entirely on neural networks

Heptio debuts two open-source tools for protecting Kubernetes clusters

DXC’s security expertise enables new applications for ServiceNow

Veeam and VMware extend team-up with Continuous Data Protection

Contract automation startup Ironclad raises $8M round led by Accel

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