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Symantec’s stock crumbles as CEO Greg Clark quits
Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp. saw its stock plunge more than 15% in after-hours trading today after announcing that President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark has quit the company. Board member Richard S. Hill has been appointed as the company’s interim CEO while it launches a search for a permanent replacement. In addition, Symantec announced its ...
Cybersecurity firm Forescout flops on disappointing guidance
Forescout Technologies Inc. was left reeling today after investors dumped its shares in the wake of guidance for its second quarter that fell well short of expectations. The “internet of things”-focused cybersecurity firm actually did quite well in the quarter just gone. It reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 41 cents per ...
Dropbox tops earnings estimates as customers pay more
Updated: Things are looking up for the cloud storage company Dropbox Inc., which not only beat forecasts on first-quarter earnings and revenue but also persuaded its customers to pay more for its storage and other services, boosting its average revenue per user. The company, which began life as a free cloud storage service but now ...
Google expands SAP partnership, offering HANA Enterprise Cloud as a managed service
Google LLC is expanding a two-year-old partnership with German enterprise software company SAP SE with a deal to offer SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud on its cloud as a fully managed service. The tech giant is also publishing a series of “market approved journeys” tied to reference architectures to help customers get set up with Sap’s ...
Qualcomm offers design for inexpensive smartphone headsets with Google Assistant
Google LLC and Qualcomm Inc. are targeting the smart headset market with a new reference design for manufacturers that adds native support for Google LLC’s Assistant and Google Fast Pair. The reference design, announced today, is based on Qualcomm’s low-powered QCC5100 series of Bluetooth audio chips and features both hardware and software manufacturers can use ...
Chasing $300B market, Intel will launch its 7-nanometer chips in 2021
Intel Corp. is finally ready to begin shipping its 10-nanometer processors in large volumes after years of delays. At its annual shareholders meeting today, the semiconductor giant said its first 10nm Ice Lake processors would be ready to ship in June, though it’s not clear when the first laptops based on the new technology will become ...
Amazon and its partners will start reselling VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Web Services Inc. and VMware Inc. are making their jointly developed VMware Cloud on AWS service more widely available by opening it up to Amazon’s partner network as well as AWS’ own salesforce. As of today, customers will be able to purchase VMware Cloud on AWS directly from AWS and from companies in the ...
Apple and SAP work together to create more iOS business apps
Apple Inc. is expanding its relationship with German enterprise software company SAP SE to make it easier for their joint customers to build mobile business applications using the iPhone maker’s machine learning tools. The companies said at SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW conference Tuesday that they’re integrating Apple’s Core ML machine learning tech and its AR Kit ...
Google combats machine learning bias with open-source tech
Google LLC wants to make machine learning models more transparent in order to protect against bias in their decision-making. Bias is a big problem in artificial intelligence, of which machine learning is a subset. It’s a byproduct of the black-box nature of AI applications, which don’t always reveal the logic behind their decisions. Bias can ...
Google expands its Flutter UI framework to the rest of the web
Google LLC is serving up more treats for developers with a bevy of updates to its open-source Flutter software for building rich user interfaces for both Android and iOS apps using the same code. Specifically, what Flutter does is it enables developers to build “native” mobile apps for both mobile operating systems faster than they can with traditional platforms. ...
