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Dutch antitrust watchdog launches probe into Apple’s App Store practices
Dutch regulators today launched an antitrust investigation to determine if Apple Inc. has been giving its apps preferential treatment in the App Store at the expense of rival services. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, or ACM, decided to look into the matter after receiving complaints from iOS app makers. The watchdog didn’t name ...
Connected-device security startup Armis bags $65M round led by Sequoia
Armis Inc., a fast-growing player in the “internet of things” security market, today announced that it has landed a $65 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Sequoia had backed a $30 million investment into the startup last year. The venture capital firm was joined by several of the other returning investors that participated in that round, ...
Report: Apple will break up iTunes into multiple apps in next macOS release
A little over 18 years after its initial release, iTunes is now reportedly nearing the end of its run. According to anonymous sources cited by 9To5Mac today, Apple Inc. is preparing to split up the Mac version of the iconic media store into multiple standalone applications. The update is expected to arrive with the next major ...
Google debuts new cloud networking tools to court enterprises
Google LLC today introduced two new networking tools for its cloud platform that aim to simplify the management of infrastructure-as-a-service environments, as well as make it easier to link them with a company’s on-premises data centers. The first addition announced at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco is a product called Traffic Director. It provides ...
Flex Logix debuts self-adapting Infer X1 chip for running AI at the edge
Flex Logix Technologies Inc., a semiconductor startup that counts Harvard University and DARPA among its customers, today debuted a new artificial intelligence chip for edge devices. The Infer X1 is built to power industrial robots, network gateways and other systems that run outside an organization’s data centers. Flex Logix claims that the chip can perform ...
Atlassian revamps Opsgenie and Confluence to make teams more productive
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today introduced an array of new features for Opsgenie and Confluence, two tools at the heart of its product lineup, in a bid to help users collaborate more effectively with one another. Opsgenie, the first offering the company has updated, is also one of the newest additions to its portfolio. It’s an incident response ...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 730 and 665 chips offer double AI performance
Qualcomm Inc. today unveiled two new chips for midrange smartphones that promise to bring a significant boost in app performance, as well as potentially widen the adoption of on-device artificial intelligence. Both products are systems-on-a-chip that incorporate multiple processing modules. The more powerful of the pair, the Snapdragon 730, is built around an eight-core Kryo ...
With new integrations, Slack embeds Office 365 into the team chat experience
Slack Technologies Inc. is making a big push for the 120 million-plus business users who do their work in Office 365. This morning, the company launched an extensive collection of integrations for Microsoft Corp.’s productivity suite that will let teams collaborate on documents and schedule meetings directly in their chat channels. Slack is essentially looking ...
Ready for takeoff: Alphabet’s Wing starts commercial drone deliveries in Australia
Alphabet Inc. is launching a drone delivery service in the Australian capital of Canberra that will allow residents to order food, coffee and medicine through an app. The company’s Wing subsidiary, which runs the project, announced the move today after receiving the go-ahead from the local Civil Aviation Safety Authority. The approval follows an 18-month ...
Deepening Google partnership, Dropbox launches native G Suite integration
Dropbox Inc. officially launched the much-touted G Suite integration today at Google LLC’s Cloud Next conference, a connection it has been working on in collaboration with the search giant for the past year. The companies struck a partnership last March to link their productivity platforms with one another in order to provide a better experience ...
