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Intel’s stock falls as it delays its first 7-nanometer computer chips again
Intel Corp.’s stock took a beating in after-hours trading today after the company announced during in its second-quarter earnings call that its next-generation of computer chips will be delayed by six more months. The company said that it’s pushing back the launch date of its first central processing units built on a seven-nanometer process by approximately ...
Cybersecurity firm Check Point reports strong sales growth
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. saw its profit and revenue grow in the second quarter, though its earnings came in below analysts’ expectations. The Israel-based cybersecurity firm reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $196.4 million, or $1.38 per share, on revenue of $505.6 million, up 4% from a year ago. Wall Street was ...
Strong cloud growth helps Microsoft beat earnings expectations
Microsoft Corp. reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter financial results today that easily beat market expectations, once again showing strong growth within its cloud businesses. Still, the company’s shares dropped more than 2% in after-hours trading after it offered revenue guidance for the current quarter that came in lighter than anticipated. The Redmond-based firm reported diluted earnings of $1.46 ...
Google’s Firebase app development framework gets more updates
Google LLC today issued a series of updates to its Firebase application development platform aimed at making developers more productive. The updates came during the end of Firebase Live, a monthlong web series that started broadcasting in June. The series consisted of various tutorials and talks aimed at boosting developer’s productivity and helping them monitor their ...
Google launches its Recommendations AI tool for online retailers
Google LLC said today that its Recommendations AI tool is now publicly available in public beta test mode. Recommendations AI was first announced in private beta in April 2019, and relies on Google’s sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to help retailers deliver highly personalized recommendations to their customers. In a blog post, Google Product Manager Pallav ...
Microsoft announces Dataflex, a new database for building low-code apps in Teams
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new relational database service called Dataflex that lets workers create, deploy and manage low-code applications and chatbots within its Microsoft Teams collaboration platform, which is a competitor to Slack, Facebook Inc.’s Workplace and Zoom. Dataflex provides relational data storage, rich data types, one-click deployment and enterprise-grade data governance for citizen ...
Apple vows to make its entire business carbon neutral by 2030
Apple Inc. said today it’s planning to become entirely carbon neutral by the end of the decade. Apple’s global operations are already carbon neutral, running on 100% renewable energy, but the company wants to extend that to cover its entire supply chain. By the end of 2030, it said, “every Apple device sold will have ...
University of Florida and Nvidia partner to build academia’s fastest supercomputer yet
The University of Florida said today it’s teaming up with computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. to build what it says will be the world’s faster artificial intelligence supercomputer in academia. The machine will be used to tackle a range of issues that can only be solved using AI, including research into COVID-19 and how to ...
Aqua Security revamps cloud native security tools and offers a new delivery model
Aqua Security Software Ltd. said today it’s expanding its portfolio of cloud native security products. The company, which has raised more than $130 million in funding, sells tools that can help to protect container-based, cloud native and serverless applications from malware and malicious attacks. Aqua’s tools enable developers to automate and improve container security and compliance ...
Commvault optimizes its data storage hardware and software for Kubernetes deployments
Commvault Systems Inc. said today it’s updating its portfolio of data storage products that help enterprises manage their data more intelligently and more simply. Among the upgrades is a new version of Commvault’s HyperScale X scale-out storage appliance, which now integrates with its recently launched Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform for Kubernetes. The Hedvig platform has also ...