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Amazon Web Services’ WorkMail gets support for Outlook, other email clients
Not even the holiday season can slow down Amazon.com Inc.’s aggressive feature development roadmap, as the company Wednesday rolled out support for the IMAP data transfer protocol to AWS WorkMail. The addition to its cloud-based email and calendar service will enable users to view their messages through a wide range of popular email clients. The list ...
Qualcomm fined $854M by South Korean antitrust regulators
A year after getting hit with a $975 million antitrust fine in China, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is once again on the hook over its business practices. The Korea Fair Trade Commission today ordered the chip maker to pay $854 million for what it has deemed to be anticompetitive behavior in the mobile processor market. Qualcomm, which ...
HERE adds three big Asian investors to jumpstart China expansion
The rapid rise of smart vehicles is driving a lot of investor interest in the tech companies that are helping the auto industry build out its digital capabilities. One name that has been coming up particularly often lately is mapping provider HERE, a former Nokia Corp. subsidiary that was acquired by a group of German car ...
Salesforce backs $7.5M round into fleet management startup Automile
The massive amount of administrative work involved in managing a company’s vehicle fleet can be overwhelming even for the most well-staffed operations department. But according to Automile Inc., it doesn’t have to be. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based offers a service that promises to reduce the load on logistics personnel using real-time sensory data from the ...
Backtrace bags $5M to help developers squash software bugs faster
At a time when releasing new code several times a day is becoming the norm for software teams, spending hours hunting down bugs the old-fashioned way is proving to be less and less sustainable. Abel Mathew and Samy Al Bahra experienced this challenge firsthand during their time at AppNexus Inc.’s engineering group. To help developers ...
Data integration startup Xplenty lands $4M and makes its first acquisition
Moving information from one system to another can either take a few clicks or a few weeks depending on the use case. When it comes to large-scale analytics projects, data transfers are more likely to fall into the latter category, a situation that Xplenty Ltd. has spent the last six years trying to elevate. The ...
Microsoft lands $927M tech support deal with US Defense Department
Professional services don’t come up nearly as often during Microsoft Corp.’s earnings calls as Office 365 or Windows, but they’re nonetheless an important revenue source for the company, especially in the public sector. The technology giant on Monday won a landmark technical support contract from the U.S. Department of Defense that is worth $927 million. Under ...
Dynamic Yield raises $22M to make marketing more personal
A custom advertisement or targeted piece of content can go a long way toward winning over an online shopper, but the large volume of traffic that e-commerce companies receive makes it difficult to provide a personalized experience for every visitor. Dynamic Yield Inc. has taken it upon itself to ease the task. To fuel its ...
Price f(x) raises $4.1M to help companies set prices more intelligently
Deciding how to price a product is much easier said than done for large companies. The calculation needs to account not only for the cost of production, which is influenced by a variety of economic factors, but also for internal financial goals and one-off items such as rebates. It’s a daunting task that a Czech ...
Report: VMware has acquired software-defined networking startup PLUMgrid
VMware Inc. has been doing some last-minute holiday shopping. The virtualization giant Monday confirmed a report on SDxCentral that it closed a deal Friday to acquire PLUMgrid Inc., an early contender in the software-defined networking space. The startup was founded in 2011 by three Cisco Systems Inc. veterans to help companies better handle the growing amounts of traffic crisscrossing ...
