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AWS rolls out its Wavelength edge computing in first US locations
Wavelength, an edge computing service that Amazon Web Services Inc. is delivering with help from wireless carriers, today became generally available in Boston and San Jose, California. Use cases for the service range from video streaming to medical image analysis and factory monitoring. The idea behind Wavelength is to give latency-sensitive applications a speed boost ...
Telehealth giants Teladoc and Livongo ink $18.5B merger
Teladoc Health Inc. and Livongo Health Inc., two of the biggest names in the fast-growing telehealth market, said on Wednesday that they plan to merge in a transaction worth $18.5 billion. The deal is expected to close by year’s end. The combined company will operate under the Teladoc name with Teladoc Chief Executive Officer Jason ...
Oracle launches cloudified VMware service to scoop up more on-premises workloads
Oracle Corp. today launched the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, a VMware environment delivered as a service that the company says provides features not offered by any of the top infrastructure-as-a-service providers. The offering is available both on Oracle’s public cloud and its recently introduced on-premises private cloud platform. VMware Inc.’s virtualization software is used in ...
VMware and Intel team up to accelerate the shift to 5G
VMware Inc. and Intel Corp. today said that they’re developing a joint software platform to help telecommunications providers adopt vRAN technology, a core component of 5G. To deliver on the massive connectivity speedups that 5G promises to enable, carriers are having to make major changes to their infrastructure. One of the biggest changes is the ...
Google releases Flutter 1.2 amid accelerating developer adoption
Google LLC today released a new version of Flutter 1.2, its open-source development toolkit for building user interfaces. The launch follows three months in which adoption of the framework accelerated significantly. Google recorded 50,000 Flutter-powered apps on the Google Play store in April and, today, by way of an update, the search giant disclosed that this ...
New foldable Galaxy Z Fold 2 headlines latest Samsung device lineup
In the first online edition of its Unpacked event, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today introduced a new foldable handset dubbed the Galaxy Z Fold 2, a top-end smartphone, two tablets and a pair of wearables to top it all off. The Galaxy Z Fold 2 (below) is a tablet-sized device with a hinge running down the middle ...
With newest open-source tool, Kubermatic adds a service hub to Kubernetes
Startup Kubermatic GmbH today introduced an open-source tool to make it easier to manage enterprise Kubernetes clusters and the software components running on them. The tool, dubbed KubeCarrier, is available on GitHub. It enables enterprises to equip their Kubernetes clusters with what Kubermatic refers to as a service hub, a kind of app store through which developers can ...
Superconducting quantum computing startup Rigetti raises $79M
Rigetti Computing Inc., a startup developing quantum computers, today said that it has closed a $79 million round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Franklin Templeton, Alumni Ventures Group and several other institutional investors participated in the round as well. Rigetti has raised more than $190 million to date. The latest round follows a ...
Microsoft backs $35M round into miniature AI chip startup Syntiant
Microsoft Corp.’s M12 arm has placed a bet on Syntiant Inc., the startup behind tiny artificial intelligence chips for connected devices that it says is 100 times more power-efficient than rivals. M12 co-led a $35 million funding round into Syntiant that was announced this morning. The other lead investor was the venture arm of Applied Materials ...
EU formally opens investigation into Google’s $2.1B Fitbit bid
Confirming recent reports, the European Union today launched an antitrust investigation to determine if Google LLC’s planned $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit Inc. would harm competitors. Regulators could decide to block the transaction at the end of the probe. However, such a decision is far from certain and Google has been actively working to address ...