Category : Tech news

HPE announces it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, CA, to Houston, TX, that it's constructing a new campus there, and no layoffs come with the move (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: HPE announces it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, CA, to Houston, TX, that it's constructing a new campus there, and no layoffs come with the move& —& - Hewlett Packard Enterprise is relocati...

Amazon unveils Monitron, a service for monitoring factory workers and machines with low-cost sensors, as it looks to push into the industrial sector (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon unveils Monitron, a service for monitoring factory workers and machines with low-cost sensors, as it looks to push into the industrial sector& —& Sensor and computer vision hardware come as tech gi...

Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal& —& Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Sl...

Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative& —& Roku Inc. has hired a Siri executive at Apple Inc. to lead a...

Flock Freight raises $113.5 million to consolidate truck freight shipments with algorithms

Flock Freight, a startup developing a platform that matches freight with ground transportation, has raised $113.5 million.Read More

Want to help animals? Here’s where to donate your money.

In factory farms, pigs are sometimes locked in crates the width and length of their bodies, so they can’t even turn around.& | Getty Images These are the most effective charities for reducing animal suffering. If you...

AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)

Larry Dignan / ZDNet: AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools& —& Amazon is stepping up its contact center servic...

AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud& —& AWS today announced a new database product that...

Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes& —& Amazon today launched SageMaker Data Wrangler...

AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices& —& AWS has launched a new hardware device, the AWS Pano...