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Microsoft acquires Metanautix for its data integration service
While the rest of the industry was winding down for the weekend, Microsoft Corp. marked last Friday with the announcement of its latest acquisition, a startup called Metanautix Inc. that has developed a service for integrating data from disparate systems. Its main selling point is an indexing mechanism that catalogs the contents of every source ...
Dell subsidiary SecureWorks files for IPO
Another piece of the complex accounting puzzle that is Dell Inc.’s attempt to acquire EMC Corp. has fallen into place after its SecureWorks subsidiary filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move appears to be part of the rumored eleven-figure fundraising effort that the technology giant is pursuing ...
BlackBerry’s software-centric comeback plan is starting to work
It only took one positive earnings call for the market to regain faith in BlackBerry Ltd. Shares of the Canadian mobile vendor are up more than 11 percent this morning after its third quarter financial results topped the average analyst estimate on the back of a 14 percent sequential sales increase, an improvement that would ...
Box brings its file sharing service to Salesforce.com
The latest big-name cloud provider Box Inc. has managed to convince into adding native support for its popular file sharing service is Salesforce.com Inc., which this week announced plans to let users access their documents directly from within its customer relationship management platform. The upcoming integration aims to address the growing reliance on data in ...
Sizing up the public cloud: IBM bets on analytics and verticals
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle. In contrast with most of its rivals in the upper tier of the public cloud, IBM’s strategy doesn’t center on overthrowing Amazon Web Services from its ...
IBM teams up with major banks to develop new open-source blockchain standard
Bitcoin is about to receive some serious competition from the financial services sector. More than a dozen of the biggest names in the industry have joined forces with IBM Corp. this morning to develop their own open-source implementation of the blockchain transaction processing model at the heart of the popular cryptocurrency. The design pattern calls ...
Target botches holiday season cybersecurity, again
Two years and about $300 million in legal costs later, it seems that Target Corp. still hasn’t fully internalized the lessons from the 2013 holiday season breach that saw hackers steal the personal information of more than 40 million of its customers. Avast Software s.r.o. issued a security alert this week warning of a vulnerability in the ...
Slack launches a $80 million developer fund to expand its app ecosystem
Not a lot of startups have been known to launch an eight-figure investment fund three years after hitting the scene, but then again Slack Technologies Inc. is not exactly the typical up-and-coming Silicon Valley venture either. Its collaboration service has become a staple of day-to-day work at thousands of the world’s biggest enterprises and now ...
IBM debuts new Watson-powered analytics APIs for the Internet of Things
The landmark $3 billion investment that IBM Corp. announced earlier this year to expand its plans for monetizing the connected universe is starting to bear fruit. The company launched four new services today at the inauguration event for the Munich office charged with leading the push that apply the capabilities of Watson to helping organizations ...
GCHQ open-sources key snooping tool
While the work of the U.K’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a closely guarded secret known only to select personnel, the internally-developed software powering its intelligence gathering operations is now publicly available for anyone to download. The source code of the aptly-named Gaffer database was released to GitHub yesterday under a free license to make ...
