U.S. lawmakers go after Big Tech for market abuses
Recommendations stop short of a call to break them up. The question remains if Big Tech will be broken into pieces in the upcoming years.
A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four big technology companies found they used “killer acquisitions” to crush... Read more
Oracle enhances NetSuite and integrates it with Autonomous Data Warehouse
Oracle announced a wide variety of enhancements that it’s making to NetSuite, its software for small and mid-sized businesses. It includes customer self-service, machine learning to identify gaps in transactions and recommend configurations for sites and new integration with Oracle’s flagship n... Read more
John McAfee arrested in Spain for tax evasion and other charges
John McAfee, known for creating McAfee, the antivirus company, was arrested in Spain today and is facing extradition to the United States. He is going to be charged for fraud and tax evasion.
The SEC says McAfee was paid more than $23.1 million in cryptocurrency assets to promote ICO token sales... Read more
Microsoft introduces more features to Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
October is here, and Microsoft's Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 2 updates and features are rolling in. Microsoft is taking this opportunity of the Wave 2 rolling out to announce some incremental features expected to appear on the Dynamics 365 Customer Insights platform.
The Dynamics 3... Read more
SAP to acquire Emarsys to enhance its customer experience operation
Emarsys’ platform, which helps companies give their customers personalized interactions across e-mail, SMS, the web, mobile and social media, will be acquired by SAP. The software giant said they want to buy Emarsys, a cloud-marketing platform and customer engagement technology company.
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Windows on ARM is getting better, 64bit emulation is coming
Microsoft is taking it slowly, but Windows 10 on ARM is getting better and better. Microsoft has now announced that it will also emulate x64 applications on ARM systems. Until now, only 32bit applications could be emulated. In addition, Microsoft comes with native 64bit ARM applications from Micros... Read more
Cisco to acquire PortShift for Cloud DevOp security
The acquisition reflects Cisco's focus on security for cloud-native development environments.
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire PortShift, an Israeli startup that has built a Kubernetes-native security platform.
Portshift uses Kubernetes and Service-Mesh to deliver a single source of ... Read more
Google to fight antitrust battles in both US and China
The Chinese suit is probably payback for Huawei being denied access to Android OS licenses.
China is preparing to launch an antitrust probe into Google, looking into allegations it has leveraged the dominance of its Android mobile operating system to stifle competition, according to Reuters.
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Dell announces enhancements to its VMware Cloud on EMC
Dell unveils Tighter support for Tanzu and beefed up compliance measures.
At VMworld on Tuesday, Dell announced major performance and compliance updates to Dell Technologies Cloud. The updates focus on a tighter integration with VMware's Tanzu platform for building and managing modern applicatio... Read more
Arm launches new chip designs for use in autonomous systems
Arm announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new set of solutions for autonomous systems in industrial and automotive applications. The chips include the Mali-G78AE GPU, the Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor, and the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU.
The highlight of these chips is t... Read more