Tech Industry AWS announces general availability of its document reading service Textract - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Textract service, which uses machine learning to extract text and data from documents including tables and forms, is now …
Tech Industry Busy day for Palo Alto Networks as it buys two security startups: Twistlock and PureSec - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Palo Alto Networks Inc. was busy on the acquisition front today, acquiring Portland, Oregon-based cybersecurity startup Twistlock Ltd. and Israeli …
Tech Industry NXP Semiconductor to acquire Marvell’s wireless business assetssiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Computer chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV says it’s buying Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s wireless connectivity business unit for $1.76 billion as it …
Tech Industry NetApp acquires Israeli data protection startup Cognigo for $70M - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY Israeli media today reported that data storage company NetApp Inc. has quietly acquired a startup called D.Day Labs Ltd. that does business as …
Salesforce Salesforce joins the blockchain fray with low-code development toolkit - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Salesforce.com Inc. today debuted a new development toolkit that will enable enterprises to build blockchain applications on its cloud platform. A …
Tech Industry Varjo adds extra ‘reality’ to augmented reality with new XR-1 photorealistic headsetsiliconangle.com - Kyt Dotson Finnish hardware manufacturer Varjo Technologies Oy today announced the upcoming release of its next high-fidelity augmented reality headset, the …
Tech Industry raises $52M in funding for its infrastructure monitoring platformsiliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher A year and a half after last raising capital, infrastructure monitoring startup Logz.io Inc. today announced that it has closed another $52 million …
Tech Industry Scope AR upgrades enterprise augmented reality insights platform for workerssiliconangle.com - Kyt Dotson Enterprise-class augmented reality solutions company Scope AR today announced the launch of upgrades to its WorkLink platform that offers real-time …
Tech Industry Amazon doubles down on voice with Echo Show 5, new Alexa privacy controls - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Amazon.com Inc. today augmented its Echo family of voice-activated devices with a new smart display and a set of privacy features that will become …
Tech Industry Microsoft to build ‘most sustainable’ data centers ever in Swedensiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Microsoft Corp. has announced plans to develop two new “world class” data centers in Sweden that it promises will be among the “most sustainable” …
Salesforce Salesforce open-sources Lightning Web Components for application developmentsiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Salesforce.com Inc. is taking its developer embrace one step further by open-sourcing its Lightning Web Components framework. Lightning Web …
Tech Industry Palo Alto Networks launches new ‘Prisma’ cloud security suitesiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced a new cloud security suite designed to provide easier-to-use advanced security features. Called Prisma, the …
Tech Industry LinkedIn buys digital identity management firm Drawbridgesiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn Corp. has made another acquisition, buying a digital identity management company called Drawbridge Inc. for an …
Tech Industry Intel Capital leads round of $17M into Israeli automotive sensor startup TriEyesiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Intel Capital today led a $17 million round into TriEye Technologies Ltd., an Israeli startup developing Short Wave Infrared imaging solutions for …
Tech Industry China’s military is building its own operating system to replace Windowssiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley As political tensions ratchet up between the U.S. and China amid an ongoing trade war that’s had some big repercussions on the global technology …
Tech Industry Facebook and Twitter remove accounts linked to Iranian disinformation campaignsiliconangle.com - James Farrell Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. said Tuesday that they have removed a number of accounts linked to an ongoing Iran-backed campaign to disseminate …
Tech Industry Kik crowdsources donations to fight SEC over legal status of its 'initial coin offering' - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Messaging app firm Kik Interactive Inc. announced today that it’s crowdsourcing donations to help it fight a likely legal battle with the U.S. …
Tech Industry Workday beats earnings targets again but investors yawn - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Enterprise software company Workday Inc. has extended its positive streak, posting results today that came in above expectations and raising its …
FireEye FireEye acquires cybersecurity monitoring startup Verodin for $250Msiliconangle.com - Duncan Riley Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. today said it has acquired monitoring startup Verodin Inc. for $250 million in a cash-and-stock deal.Founded in 2014, …
Intuit Intuit acquires analytics startup Origami Logic to enhance its data infrastructure - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it’s buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup. The deal …
Tech Industry Enterprise software mapping platform Crosscode raises $9.25M - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - R. DANES Enterprise code-level software asset mapping company Crosscode Inc. today announced that it recently closed an early-stage funding round that raised …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTech Industry Bitnami makes open source so easy, enterprises can do itsiliconangle.com - R. Danes Many companies no doubt envy the all open-source elite — companies that chucked proprietary software in favor innovative, rapidly upgraded operating …
Tech Industry Intel’s 10-nanometer laptop CPUs bring more speed, vastly improved graphics - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MARIA DEUTSCHER Two days after debuting its 10-nanometer Ice Lake chip architecture, Intel Corp. this morning introduced the first central processing units based on …
Java Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - MIKE WHEATLEY Pivotal Software Inc. today updated its Spring Runtime application development platform to address concerns some developers have about changes made …
Tech Industry JetStream raises $7.7M for cloud-native disaster recovery softwaresiliconangle.com - Paul Gillin JetStream Software Inc. said it secured series A funding of $7.7 million for its data protection technology aimed at managed service and cloud …
Tech Industry 139M customer records stolen in hack of popular graphic design tool site Canva - SiliconANGLEsiliconangle.com - DUNCAN RILEY Around 139 million customer records have been stolen in a hack that targeted graphic design tool website Canva Pty. Ltd. The data theft occurred on …
Hong Kong Report: Alibaba considers second listing in Hong Kong to raise $20Bsiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is weighing up the opportunity of getting more funding via a second listing on Hong Kong’s stock …
Nvidia With new GPUs, Nvidia promises workstation performance in a laptop-size packagesiliconangle.com - Maria Deutscher Nvidia Corp. today introduced a set of new graphics processing units for laptops, including a trio of top-end chips aimed at markets such as the film …
Advanced Micro Devices AMD takes on Intel with its aggressively-priced 12-core Ryzen 9 computer chipssiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is taking a few shots at Intel Corp. with the launch of its long-awaited 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X microprocessor chip at the …
Singularity Nvidia announces its first AI platform for edge devicessiliconangle.com - Mike Wheatley Nvidia Corp. is bringing artificial intelligence to the edge of the network with the launch early Monday of its new Nvidia EGX platform that can …
