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Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO
Hot on the heels of Uber Technologies Inc. hiring its first chief operating officer, rival Lyft Inc. today announced the appointment of a top Tesla Inc. executive to the same position. Jon McNeill is coming aboard after a more than two-year stint as the president of global sales and service at Elon Musk’s carmaker. He ...
LogMeIn to acquire internet voice provider Jive Communications for $342M
Cloud communications and information technology giant LogMeIn Inc. today announced plans to acquire Jive Communications Inc., a provider of managed internet voice services based out of Utah, to cement its position in a key market. The deal is valued at $342 million and will bolster LogMeIn’s existing communications business. The division consists in large part of ...
Adobe debuts new AI features for creating more compelling web content
Adobe Systems Inc. is applying artificial intelligence to new areas, for example recently infusing machine learning into Photoshop to save time for designers. Today, it’s bringing similar automation features to Experience Manager, its marketing content platform for enterprises, in an effort to help companies more easily create and target marketing content. “Everyone’s becoming a creator,” Elliot Sedegah, ...
Akamai lays off 5% of workforce following activist investor pressure
Content delivery giant Akamai Technologies Inc. has laid off 400 employees, or 5 percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to streamline operations. Akamai Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton revealed the move during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday night. He said the restructuring initiative, which wrapped up this week, was originally launched ...
Intel debuts new edge computing chip with specialized cryptography tech
Intel Corp. this morning pulled back the curtains on the Xeon D-2100, a specialized new chip series built to perform computations outside a traditional data center. So-called edge computing enables companies to process data closer to the point of creation in the interest of improving response times. A factory operator, for example, might wish to ...
Top VCs bet $32M on Highfive’s flavor of download-free videoconferencing
Highfive Technologies Inc., a startup that competes in the crowded videoconferencing market with its own custom communications hardware, today announced the completion of a $32 million funding round. The lead investor was $8 billion technology consulting provider Dimension Data Holdings Plc. The company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based telecommunications giant NTT Group, which regularly backs funding rounds ...
Check Point’s new cloud security toolkit aims to thwart ‘Gen V’ threats
Recent years have seen a noticeable increase in large-scale cyberattacks that compromise a significant amount of sensitive data or cause substantial business disruption. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. collectively refers to such breaches as “Gen V” threats, the risk of which it’s hoping to mitigate with its latest offering. Unveiled today, CloudGuard is a set ...
Microsoft will foot the bill for enterprises that switch to OneDrive file storage
Microsoft Corp. is trying a new strategy to widen the adoption of OneDrive for Business in the enterprise. The technology giant today announced that companies switching to the file sharing service from competing products won’t be billed until they pay off their contract with the previous provider. Specifically, the promotion targets customers of Microsoft’s three ...
Eyeing expansion, data protection unicorn Rubrik inks deal to acquire Datos IO
Rubrik Inc., a provider of data protection technology that received a $1.3 billion valuation last year, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire fellow backup startup Datos IO Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, it’s reasonable to assume that the price tag was fairly ...
Amazon settles $250M tax dispute with France, but the fight may not be over
Amid an ongoing antitrust dispute in France, Amazon.com Inc. today settled a separate lawsuit filed by local authorities over unpaid taxes. The case dates back to 2012, when the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance called on the retail giant to pay €200 million ($250 million) in back taxes on revenue generated from 2006 ...
