Frederic Lardinois
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Mozilla and Qualcomm are bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM
Microsoft is working with Google to bring a native ARM64 version of Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM and as Mozilla announced today, it, too, is working on bringing a native version of Firefox to Windows 10 on ARM. → Read More
Qualcomm expands its PC bet with its new 7nm 8cx platform
Qualcomm wants to become a major player in the PC/laptop market. → Read More
Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform
Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33. → Read More
Microsoft Edge goes Chromium (and macOS)
The rumors were true: Microsoft Edge is moving to the open-source Chromium platform, the same platform that powers Google’s Chrome browser. And once that is done, Microsoft is bringing Edge to macOS, too. → Read More
Workato raises $25M for its integration platform
Workato, a startup that offers an integration and automation platform for businesses that competes with the likes of MuleSoft, SnapLogic and Microsoft’s Logic Apps, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B funding round from Battery Ventures, Storm Ventures, ServiceNow and Wo… → Read More
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 855 and its new under-display fingerprint sensor
This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we’re not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news. → Read More
Google’s Flutter toolkit goes beyond mobile with Project Hummingbird
Flutter, Google’s toolkit for building cross-platform applications, hit version 1.0 today. → Read More
Google’s cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit hits version 1.0
Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building mobile Android and iOS applications, hit its version 1.0 release today. → Read More
Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier
Microsoft and Docker today announced a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), that aims to make the lifecycle management of cloud-native applications easier. → Read More
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 855 and its new under-display fingerprint sensor
This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we’re not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news. → Read More
Language learning app Babbel sold 1M US subscriptions this year, moves into language travel
In the world of online language learning, there are basically two heavyweights: Duolingo and Babbel. → Read More
AWS launches a managed Kafka service
Kafka is an open source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. → Read More
WiARframe wants to make building AR experiences easy
Augmented reality has been a buzzword for years, but for the most part, it has remained a novelty. → Read More
AWS launches Amazon Forecast to make time series predictions easier
Amazon’s AWS launched Amazon Forecast, a new pre-built machine learning tool today that will make it easier for developer to generate predictions based on time-series data. → Read More
Amazon launches an automated labeling service for its SageMaker machine learning tool
You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, for example. → Read More
AWS launches a managed blockchain service
It was only a year ago that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that he wasn’t all that interested in blockchain services. → Read More
AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier
The concept of data lakes has been around for a long time, but being able to set up one of these systems, which store vasts amount of raw data in its native formats, was never easy. AWS wants to change this with the launch of AWS Lake Formation. → Read More
AWS announced Glacier Deep Archive to replace tape archives
At its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS today announced a new storage service that is meant for deep archival data that is only needed very infrequently but can’t be deleted. → Read More
Google Fi now officially supports most Android devices and iPhones
Google is making a major move to expand the availability of its Fi wireless service. It’s been a few years since Google launched Project Fi with the promise of doing things a bit differently than the large carriers. → Read More
Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa
Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acquisitions, too. → Read More