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IBM reportedly will reassign 30,000+ staffers in services division and possibly cut 10,000 jobs
Enterprise software giant IBM Corp. might be on the verge of a return to revenue growth, but it’s also looking to cut much more on the cost side — namely jobs. According to a report in The Register Thursday, IBM is planning to reassign more than 30,000 staff from its Global Technology Services division, which ...
EU could OK Qualcomm’s $47B acquisition of NXP Semiconductor next week
Smartphone chip giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s perseverance looks like it might finally pay off, as reports indicate its proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival firm NXP Semiconductors NV will be approved by European regulators next week. The European Union’s antitrust regulators are all set to clear the acquisition after the two companies addressed concerns raised ...
VMware eases deployment of software containers in virtual machines
VMware Inc. is updating its vSphere Integrated Container Platform in order to make it easier to deploy software containers within virtual machines. The vSphere Integrated Container Platform is used to manage containers deployed inside VMs from within VMware’s flagship vSphere virtualization product. The technology uses a set of daemons, or background program processes, and software ...
AT&T to deploy sensors to monitor the health of road and railway bridges
Mobile network operator AT&T Inc. wants to expand its “internet of things” monitoring services to bridges. The company said Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it’s testing out a new “structure monitoring solution” that uses an array of sensors to help monitor the integrity of bridge structures, and alert city, state ...
CES 2018
During CES keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich plays down security issues – and plays up new tech
Almost as soon as he took to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday evening, Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich addressed one of the biggest challenges facing the company today: the Spectre and Meltdown security bugs that could compromise many processor chips sold over the last two decades. “Our ...
Despite narrow fourth-quarter miss, Samsung expects record profits
Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said early Tuesday in South Korea that it expects to earn 15.1 trillion won ($14 billion) in fourth-quarter operating profits when it reports final results later this month, setting a new record for quarterly profits for the third successive quarter. But those preliminary results still fell short of analysts’ ...
Cloud computing market revenues grew by 24% to $180 billion in 2017
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that the global cloud computing market grew by 24 percent over the last year, valuing it at more than $180 billion. Synergy’s figure is based on the revenues it calculated from six segments of cloud services in tracks: infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service, hosted private cloud, enterprise software-as-a-service, unified communications-as-a-service ...
CES 2018
Intel unveils new chips with AMD technology to take on Nvidia in high-end laptops
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have made good on a promise they made last November that they would combine their technologies to build a high-powered computer processor chip to challenge those offered by Nvidia Corp. The longtime rivals unveiled a new series of laptop chips Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that ...
Verizon acquires machine learning-based threat detection startup Niddel
Verizon Communications Inc. is planning to beef up the security of its enterprise network products following its acquisition Friday of startup Niddel Corp., which offers a threat-hunting platform based on machine learning technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Verizon said it plans to integrate Niddel’s technology with its own products and services ...
Microsoft joins biotech firm to create an AI-based blood test for diagnosing disease
Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with a biotech firm called Adaptive Biotechnologies in an effort to develop an artificial intelligence-based blood test that could be trained to identify “hundreds” of diseases in humans before symptoms appear. Adaptive Biotechnologies is said to be a major player in the genetic sequencing of the T- and B-cell receptors ...