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OpenText strengthens data protection business with $1.4B Carbonite deal
Information management provider OpenText Inc. today said that it will shell out $1.42 billion to acquire Carbonite Inc., a Boston-based data protection specialist. OpenText develops software that helps organizations manage the documents and other business records scattered throughout their corporate network. Carbonite, in turn, sells cloud services for protecting those business records from data loss. The ...
Lyft expands self-driving car program with East Palo Alto test hub, autonomous minivans
Lyft Inc. is ramping up its autonomous vehicle operation going into 2020. Luc Vincent, the executive who heads the program, detailed in a blog post today that the company is establishing a new self-driving car testing facility in East Palo Alto, California. The hub will feature a “reconfigurable” track designed to simulate a real road. There ...
With new 32-core Threadripper processor, AMD claims to leapfrog Intel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has unveiled a pair of central processing units for high-end desktop computers that it hails as the fastest of their kind in the world. Announced on Thursday, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and Ryzen Threadripper 3970X are based on the company’s latest seven-nanometer chip architecture. The 3960X packs 24 processing cores with ...
Google releases its Skaffold tool for automating Kubernetes into general availability
Google LLC today announced the general availability of Skaffold, an open-source tool that makes it easier for developers to work with Kuberentes. The launch is the culmination of a 20-month beta testing and development period that saw the software go through no fewer than 40 iterations. Contributors from the open-source community submitted some 5,000 pieces ...
AWS tweaks its cloud platform’s economics with Savings Plans
Amazon Web Services Inc. is streamlining infrastructure purchases for enterprises that make long-term commitments on its platform. The cloud giant on Wednesday evening launched Savings Plans, a buying model that offers customers steep discounts if they pay for computing power a year or three years in advance. AWS has already been providing such discounts through ...
Networking heavyweight Infoblox acquires Microsoft-backed startup SnapRoute
Infoblox Inc., a major maker of networking equipment and software, today said that it has acquired California startup SnapRoute Inc. to add more depth to its product portfolio. Infoblox is the biggest player in a niche but important segment of the networking industry. The company sells solutions that help enterprises manage their internet protocol or ...
California officials reveal probe into Facebook’s privacy practices
California officials revealed that they’re investigating Facebook Inc. over its privacy practices in a news conference this morning, just hours after the social network disclosed it had inadvertently made some user data accessible to outside app developers. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra opened the probe 18 months ago to look into the Cambridge Analytics scandal. ...
Vision Fund’s stumbles leave SoftBank with $6.5B quarterly loss, first in 14 years
The second quarter was not kind to SoftBank Group Corp. or its portfolio companies. The Japanese technology conglomerate today posted financial results for the three months ended Sept. 30, revealing a 704 billion yen, or $6.5 billion, loss caused by the Vision Fund. Launched in 2017, the Vision Fund is a $100 billion investment vehicle through ...
Coveo nabs mammoth $172M round to make sites easier to navigate with AI
Canadian software-as-a-service provider Coveo Inc. officially joined the unicorn club today after announcing that it has closed $227 million Canadian dollars ($172 million) in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. The late-stage investment brings the company’s total capital raised to $402 million. Much of the money from the previous funding rounds is still in the ...
Google launches OpenTitan project to enable more secure silicon chips
Google LLC today launched OpenTitan, an open-source initiative designed to encourage the development of so-called root-of-trust technology for data center and consumer devices. When a system is described as having a root of trust, it means there’s a specialized chip or module responsible for blocking hacking attempts. In Google’s latest Pixel 4 phones, for instance, ...