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Honda in talks with Alphabet’s Waymo to use self-driving car technology

By Duncan Riley Dec 21, 2016

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. is in talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo division, previously known as Google Car, to add self-driving technology to its vehicles. The talks are said to be at an early stage.…

Cloud

Red Hat’s shares plunge on revenue shortfall and its CFO is leaving

By Robert Hof Dec 21, 2016

Red Hat Inc. just hit a rough patch, and it may take the open-source enterprise software bellwether at least another quarter to dig its way out. That’s the upshot of third-quarter earnings reported today.…

Big Data

Facebook says government requests for user data are on the rise

By Eric David Dec 21, 2016

Facebook Inc. today revealed its numbers on government requests for user data for the first half of 2016, and not surprisingly, those requests are on the rise. According to Facebook, the number of government data requests…

Infra

Microsoft lands $927M tech support deal with US Defense Department

By Maria Deutscher Dec 21, 2016

Professional services don’t come up nearly as often during Microsoft Corp.’s earnings calls as Office 365 or Windows, but they’re nonetheless an important revenue source for the company, especially in the public sector. The…

Apps

The year of Pokemon Go: Mobile dominated the $91B game industry in 2016

By Eric David Dec 21, 2016

Driven in part by the truly mobile game Pokemon Go, the video game industry brought in over $91 billion in revenue in 2016, nearly half of which came from mobile games. According to a…

Big Data

Dynamic Yield raises $22M to make marketing more personal

By Maria Deutscher Dec 21, 2016

A custom advertisement or targeted piece of content can go a long way toward winning over an online shopper, but the large volume of traffic that e-commerce companies receive makes it difficult to provide…

Infra

Russian-run Methbot steals millions daily in video advertising revenue

By Duncan Riley Dec 21, 2016

New research has uncovered a bot farm that is estimated to be fraudulently stealing millions in revenue from online video advertising companies. Dubbed “Methbot” by New York-based security firm White Ops because of references to…

Apps

Instagram Stories gets some festive cheer with holiday stickers, adds ‘hands-free’ recording option

By Collen Kriel Dec 21, 2016

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram introduced Stories in August, a feature very similar to Snapchat’s My Story feature. Now Instagram Stories is becoming more of a Snapchat clone with the introduction of customizable stickers based on…

Emerging Tech

Uber’s self-driving cars menace cyclists in San Francisco with dangerous turns

By Duncan Riley Dec 21, 2016

If you like riding a bike around San Francisco, you may want to be on the lookout for a new menace: self-driving Uber cars. The ride-hailing giant, who started testing its self-driving cars in…

Infra

HPE, Cisco lead in cloud infrastructure, but Dell EMC and others are gaining fast

By Mike Wheatley Dec 20, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. have led the field in the strategically important cloud infrastructure equipment market for years, but now they face new challengers for dominance in Dell EMC and…

the latest

Honda in talks with Alphabet’s Waymo to use self-driving car technology

Red Hat’s shares plunge on revenue shortfall and its CFO is leaving

Microsoft lands $927M tech support deal with US Defense Department

The year of Pokemon Go: Mobile dominated the $91B game industry in 2016

Dynamic Yield raises $22M to make marketing more personal

Russian-run Methbot steals millions daily in video advertising revenue

Uber’s self-driving cars menace cyclists in San Francisco with dangerous turns

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