Dell Will Officially Complete Acquisition Of EMC On September 7th
Dell will officially complete its takeover of EMC on Sept. 7, ending nearly a year of approvals and decades of history for the two companies that will combine to become Dell Technologies. The mammoth...
View ArticleCisco Suffers Loss Against Arista In Patent Lawsuit
Cisco Systems suffered a major blow in its long drawn out battle with rival Arista Networks on Wednesday when a federal court jury rejected its demand for damages. The jury in the Northern California...
View ArticleIsrael’s Team8 Cybersecurity Firm Gets Microsoft, Qualcomm Funding
The venture capitalists divisions of Microsoft and Qualcomm have invested in Team8, an Israeli creator of cybersecurity start-ups, as big multinational companies back Israel’s burgeoning cyber industry...
View ArticleCisco Slashing More Jobs As Revenue Continues To Fall
Cisco Systems Inc forecast current-quarter revenue that widely missed analysts’ estimates and said it plans on slashing 1,100 more jobs, as the world’s largest networking gear maker ramps up efforts to...
View ArticleApple, Dell Said To Be Joining Bid For Toshiba’s Chip Unit
Tech titans Apple and Dell Inc will join a Foxconn-led consortium bidding for Toshiba Corp’s highly prized chip unit, the CEO of the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer told Reuters on...
View ArticleCisco Goes Machine Learning
On the hardware side, Cisco also announced a new family of switches known as the 9000 series. These focus on the demands of mobility, cloud, the IoT and security. When buying these switches, customers...
View ArticleApple, Accenture Team Up For Better Business Apps
Technology giant Apple Inc and professional services firm Accenture PLC announced that they will team up to help businesses build better applications for iOS, the operating system that powers Apple’s...
View ArticleCisco Nearing Deal To Acquire Broadsoft
Cisco Systems Inc, the world’s largest networking gear maker, is closing in on a deal to acquire U.S. telecommunications software firm BroadSoft Inc for close to $2 billion, a person familiar with the...
View ArticleCisco Adds Voice Assistant To Videoconferencing
Virtual assistants are popping up everywhere as Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant get better at quickly retrieving information and helping to organize things. Joining them in the office are...
View ArticleGoogle and China’s Tencent Agree On Patent Deal
Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to a patent licensing agreement with Tencent Holdings Ltd as it seeks ways to expand in China where many of its products, such as app store, search engine, and email...
View ArticleIs Dell Going On An Acquisition Spree
Dell also has a security unit, RSA, and a cloud platform called Boomi which could receive the IPO treatment. Another possibility is that the company could give itself an IPO.
View ArticleCan Cisco Make A Comeback
The company is also betting on subscription services for a recurring stream of revenue. There had been a marked growth in software subscriptions for Cisco.
View ArticleSlack Technologies Building Team To Fight Recurring Outages
Collaboration software provider Slack Technologies Inc is putting together a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce the disruptions that have been more frequent on Slack’s...
View ArticleSlack Secretly Files For Initial Public Offering
Slack Technologies Inc has confirmed that it has confidentially applied with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to list shares publicly, moving business messaging service a step closer to...
View ArticleCisco Fined For releasing Hackable Video Cameras
While there has never been any proof that Huawei gear has backdoors for Chinese spooks, Cisco apparently continued to sell the software and didn't fix the massive security weakness for about four years...
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