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PayPal goes old school with $233M acquisition of an offline bill payment company

By Duncan Riley Feb 14, 2017

Going old school, PayPal Inc. said Tuesday it will acquire TIO Networks Corp., a financial services company that facilitates bill payments in offline locations. PayPal will pay $233 million in cash for the company.…

Infra

IBM’s Watson brings AI cybercrime fighting tools to security operations centers

By Duncan Riley Feb 14, 2017

IBM Corp.’s long-held ambition to fight cybercrime has come to fruition as it announced the general availability of its Watson for Cyber Security platform. The platform, announced in May 2016 and launched in beta test phase…

Apps

Facebook launches its own TV app and makes mobile video better

By Eric David Feb 14, 2017

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said before that he believes the social network is on its way to being “mostly video,” and today Facebook announced that it will be launching its own TV app…

Emerging Tech

Two more major Japanese banks join funding for Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange

By Kyt Dotson Feb 14, 2017

Tokyo-based bitFlyer Inc., Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange and blockchain financial technology company, today announced that three Japanese banking giants have joined in raising funds for the company. According to the press release, Sumitomo Mitsui…

Infra

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

By Robert Hof Feb 14, 2017

The world needs a digital Geneva Convention to counter state-sponsored hacking against citizens, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said today at the RSA Conference on information security in San Francisco. Smith (pictured) said in…

Big Data

HPE bids to secure IoT data from source to Hadoop

By Paul Gillin Feb 14, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planting its feet in two hot security markets with the introduction of HPE SecureData for Hadoop and Internet of Things, an encryption product that’s intended to easily secure sensitive…

Cloud

With Spanner database service, Google raises the stakes in cloud computing

By Robert Hof Feb 14, 2017

Google Inc. today issued a big challenge to its rivals in cloud computing by opening up access to what has been described as the world’s largest database. The company is launching Cloud Spanner Beta,…

Cloud

Samanage reels in $20M to change how companies support their users

By Maria Deutscher Feb 14, 2017

There are numerous tools out there that promise to help companies streamline their internal support operations, but many of them hail from a time when on-premises software still ruled the workplace. Samanage Inc. has…

Cloud

DigitalOcean fills gap in its public cloud with new managed load balancing

By Maria Deutscher Feb 14, 2017

With its public cloud on the verge of reaching a million users, DigitalOcean Inc. is ramping up feature development to ensure that new bookings keep coming down the pipe. The latest fruit of the provider’s…

Big Data

Reshaping the education paradigm with cognitive science | #GuestOfTheWeek

By Marlene Den Bleyker Feb 14, 2017

There is a large readiness gap for U.S. high school seniors preparing to go to college. Nearly 70 percent of students entering a community college need to participate in a remediation class for math or…

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PayPal goes old school with $233M acquisition of an offline bill payment company

IBM’s Watson brings AI cybercrime fighting tools to security operations centers

Facebook launches its own TV app and makes mobile video better

Two more major Japanese banks join funding for Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange

Microsoft president calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to stop state-sponsored hacking

HPE bids to secure IoT data from source to Hadoop

Samanage reels in $20M to change how companies support their users

DigitalOcean fills gap in its public cloud with new managed load balancing

Reshaping the education paradigm with cognitive science | #GuestOfTheWeek

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