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Report: Amazon has spoken to Slack about a potential $9B acquisition

By Duncan Riley Jun 15, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. may be interested in acquiring enterprise messaging platform provider Slack Technologies Inc., according to a report published early Thursday morning. Bloomberg, citing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Slack has…

Apps

Google’s new ‘Backup and Sync’ tool will back up your entire computer

By Collen Kriel Jun 15, 2017

Google Inc. Wednesday announced a new tool called Backup and Sync that will allow users to backup all of their files and folders from a Mac or personal computer to their Google Drive. The…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft AI achieves first-ever perfect score in Ms. Pac-Man game

By Duncan Riley Jun 14, 2017

Artificial intelligence software designed by Microsoft Corp. has achieved something that was previously never thought possible: a perfect score in the computer game Ms. Pac-Man. Using computing power and programming power on what would…

Emerging Tech

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex targeted in DDoS attack amid cryptocurrency bull market

By Duncan Riley Jun 14, 2017

Leading bitcoin exchange Bitfinex advised customers that they were being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack Wednesday following a similar attack the day before. The attack, which involves a company’s servers being…

Apps

Telegram app founder claims US officials bribed him to install backdoor access

By Duncan Riley Jun 14, 2017

Confirming what has perhaps always been known but rarely stated publicly, the founder of popular encrypted-messaging app Telegram Messenger LLP said that he was indeed offered bribes by U.S. government officials to install a backdoor…

Emerging Tech

IDC: Internet of Things will become a $1.4 trillion industry by 2021

By Mike Wheatley Jun 14, 2017

Technology analyst firm International Data Corp. has updated its spending estimates for the Internet of Things, saying it will grow 16.7 percent in 2017 to just over $800 billion. IDC also said global IoT spending…

Cloud

Virtustream combines its managed services with Pivotal Cloud Foundry

By Mike Wheatley Jun 14, 2017

Two Dell Technologies Inc. companies are teaming up to offer a new cloud service they claim will be able to speed up the deployment of cloud-native applications on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an…

Infra

Feds warn that North Korea is targeting businesses in new hacking campaign

By Duncan Riley Jun 14, 2017

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an alert Tuesday that the North Korean government is targeting businesses with malware and botnet-related attacks as part of a concerted new hacking campaign. Dubbed “Hidden Cobra,” the campaign is…

Cloud

Managed services provider Continuum snapped up by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo

By Duncan Riley Jun 14, 2017

Remote monitoring and management startup Continuum Managed Services LLC has been acquired for an undisclosed price by Thoma Bravo LLC, a private equity investment firm with a taste for investing in enterprise and security startups.…

Big Data

Hortonworks views open-source as key to world’s data management

By Mark Albertson Jun 14, 2017

It’s been 10 years since Apache Hadoop, open-source-based software used for storing, processing and analyzing big data, was brought into the technology picture. And executives at Hortonworks Inc. are increasingly focused on a single…

the latest

Report: Amazon has spoken to Slack about a potential $9B acquisition

Microsoft AI achieves first-ever perfect score in Ms. Pac-Man game

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex targeted in DDoS attack amid cryptocurrency bull market

Telegram app founder claims US officials bribed him to install backdoor access

IDC: Internet of Things will become a $1.4 trillion industry by 2021

Feds warn that North Korea is targeting businesses in new hacking campaign

Managed services provider Continuum snapped up by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo

Hortonworks views open-source as key to world’s data management

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