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How Google is using AI to help fight COVID-19
Like many big tech firms, Google has been trying to help combat the spread of the coronavirus in several ways. Examples include making its communication tool Google Meet free for everyone to use and working with Apple Inc. and the U.S. government to help build a decentralized coronavirus tracking system that can notify people if they ...
Twilio stock jumps 25% on strong earnings results
Cloud communications services provider Twilio Inc. saw its stock jump almost 25% in after-hours trading today after posting fiscal first quarter financial results and guidance for the next period that blew past analysts’ forecasts. The company’s stock is now at a new all-time high, surpassing its record $149.95 close in July 2019. For the first ...
Google sets date to launch delayed Android 11 in beta: June 3
Google LLC’s Android team today announced Android 11’s new launch date — June 3, a month later than originally expected — and said the revamped operating system will be available to download in beta test mode early next month. Android is an open-source, mobile operating system developed by Google that powers more than 2.5 billion ...
Google’s latest Flutter and Dart releases are all about performance and speed
Google LLC today pushed out a major update to its open-source Flutter framework that’s used to build applications that can run on multiple computing platforms. The company has also updated Dart, a client-optimized programming language created by Google that’s used to write mobile, desktop, server and web applications. Flutter is a framework that’s used by ...
Arista Networks tops earnings expectations but guidance is light
Cloud networking company Arista Networks Inc. today beat expectations with its fiscal first-quarter earnings report despite seeing its revenue decline steeply from a year ago. The company reported a profit before certain cost such as stock compensation of $2.01 per share on revenue of $523 million, down 12% from the same period a year ago. That was still ...
Splunk Cloud analytics platform lands on Google Cloud in beta
Splunk Inc. is bringing its big-data analytics platform to Google Cloud and integrating it with a number of Google Cloud services to enable enterprises to get more actionable insights from their data and drive faster decision-making. Splunk Cloud is a version of Splunk’s main Data-to-Everything platform, delivered as software-as-a-service. The software is used by enterprises to ...
Linux Foundation hosts a new project that aims to advance digital trust
Linux Foundation said today it’s playing host to a key project aimed at facilitating the trustworthy exchange and verification of data between two parties over the internet. The Trust over IP Foundation aims to provide a “robust, common standard” for data exchange and verification that will give businesses and individuals confidence that the information they ...
IDC now predicts IT spending will decline 5.1% in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing enterprises to cut back on their technology spending, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corp. The research firm today updated its worldwide information technology spending forecast, now projecting that spending will decline by 5.1% in 2020. Still, it said, IT infrastructure spending will grow by about 4% this year, ...
Microsoft debuts Azure VMware Solution in preview
Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of its long-awaited Azure VMware Solution, which makes it cheaper and easier for customers to migrate VMware applications on-premises in data centers to the company’s public cloud infrastructure platform. Jason Zander, executive vice president for Azure, said the launch of the service was an “amazing milestone” for both companies ...
Iguazio teams up with NetApp to accelerate AI app deployment
Data science company Iguazio Systems Ltd. today announced it’s joining with data storage firm NetApp Inc. to help customers develop and deploy artificial intelligence-based applications on the latter’s ONTAP AI framework. Iguazio sells a “serverless” data platform-as-a-service product that creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the network edge as well as on public clouds and ...