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Intel’s Mobileye will equip 8 million new cars with self-driving tech
Intel Corp.’s Mobileye division is getting closer to its goal of making self-driving vehicles a mass-market reality. According to a Reuters report from this morning, the group has landed a massive deal with an unnamed European automaker to supply autonomous driving technology for 8 million cars. The Mobileye executives who spoke to the news agency ...
SnapLogic adds new connectors and container support to its integration platform
SnapLogic Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to connect their disparate applications and data sources. The company, which is eyeing an eventual initial public offering, today launched a new iteration of its flagship integration platform with a host of improvements. The update focuses mainly on expanding SnapLogic’s collection of application connectors. These connectors, which it ...
Oracle bolsters its cloud business with acquisition of DataScience.com
Oracle Corp. is looking to expand the analytics capabilities of its cloud platform with a new strategic acquisition. The technology giant this morning announced that it has inked an agreement to buy DataScience.com Inc., a venture-backed startup with a platform for powering analytics projects. The software, which can run both in the cloud and on companies’ in-house infrastructure, is ...
Report: Microsoft plans a new line of tablets to take on Apple’s iPad
Microsoft Corp. reportedly plans to bolster its Surface device family with a new line of low-cost tablets in a bid to challenge the market dominance of Apple Inc.’s iPad. The models are set to become available as soon as the second half of the year for around $400, Bloomberg reported today. That’s compared with the $799 ...
Apttus’ upgraded sales AI can find deal opportunities and give advice
Apttus Corp. is looking to make artificial intelligence a bigger part of how enterprises close deals. The software-as-a-service unicorn, which provides a platform for handling the logistical aspect of large business transactions, today unveiled new AI features designed to automate common administrative tasks. The capabilities are rolling out to its Max chatbot for sales teams. According to Apttus, the assistant ...
HPE to acquire heavily funded networking startup Plexxi
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced plans to buy Plexxi Inc., a software-defined networking startup that has raised over $80 million from venture capital firms. The financial terms were not disclosed, but the $267 million valuation Plexxi reportedly received after its last financing round may provide an idea of the acquisition’s price tag. The transaction ...
Seeking an analytics edge, Google picks up big-data startup Cask Data
In a bid to expand the capabilities of its cloud platform, Google Inc. has acquired Cask Data Inc., a startup that builds tools for the Hadoop open-source analytics framework. Cask founders Jonathan Gray and Nitin Motgi announced the news in a Monday blog post. They didn’t divulge the acquisition price, but said they’re joining Google’s cloud ...
Google One is Alphabet’s new take on cloud storage
Google Inc. is preparing to roll out a major overhaul of its cloud storage service that will up the ante against the competition in more ways than one. The upgrade, which the technology giant previewed today, is set to launch under the brand Google One. It will replace the paid consumer editions of Google Drive currently on ...
AWS introduces a new mobile app for managing connected devices
As companies incorporate sensors and other connected devices into their operations, the challenges associated with managing large amounts of internet-connected hardware are coming to the fore. Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new solution to make the task a little easier. IoT 1-Click, which was first teased late last year at re:Invent, differs from ...
Researchers find critical flaws in the tech underpinning email encryption
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today issued a warning against using email for secure communications following the discovery of major flaws in the technology used to send encrypted messages. The exploits, which are collectively referred to as EFAIL, were discovered by a team of cybersecurity experts from three European universities. The researchers have published an overview ...
