Mistral raises 3 billion, Samsung leads round
In a Series D funding round, Mistral has raised 3 billion euros. The company is now valued at 21 billion euro...
Applications
Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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Google unveils memory and energy-saving modes for Chrome
Google announced two new performance settings for Chrome: Energy Saver and Memory Saver. Current browsers...
Google adds new ML features to Google Sheets
Google Simple ML is now available. The browser add-on adds machine learning capabilities to Google Sheets. ...
Apple tweaks AirDrop following backlash over restrictions in China
Apple is tightening the privacy settings of AirDrop of users worldwide with the iOS 16.2 update. The tech gia...
‘Microsoft’s dreaming of a mobile super app’
Microsoft is reportedly considering developing a mobile 'super app' to offer a wide range of services in a si...
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Events, dollars & cents: the state of open source in 2023
Britain was, obviously (arguably), mislead and misguided enough to vote positively for Brexit by a small but ...
Linus Torvalds announces 8th release candidate of Linux 6.1
Linux chief Linus Torvalds has announced the eighth release candidate of Linux 6.1. Torvalds has been cri...
Amazon brings cashierless payment technology to AWS
Amazon intends to use AWS to market Amazon Go, a set of technologies and services that allow in-store payment...
Co-CEO Taylor leaves Salesforce, Benioff stands alone
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor is stepping down at the end of January 2023. Marc Benioff will become the sole ...
Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor assets to improve end-to-end encryption
Dropbox has acquired assets from security firm Boxcryptor to offer end-to-end encryption to business users. T...
Informatica integrates Data Loader into Amazon Redshift
The move will make it easier for non-techies to load data to their Redshift console. This week, AWS announ...