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Im vergangenen Quartal ging der Umsatz von IBM um 2,1 Prozent zurück. Der Aktienkurs von IBM ist im vergangenen Jahr um 19 Prozent gefallen. Zum Ende des dritten Quartals verfügte das Unternehmen über liquide Mittel in Höhe von 14,7 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Red Hat ist ein US-amerikanischer Softwarehersteller und hat seinen Hauptsitz in Raleigh, North Carolina. Entwickelt wird die weit verbreitete Linux-Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Das Unternehmen ist auch am Fedora-Projekt beteiligt. Das Unternehmen erzielte im vergangenen Geschäftsjahr, das im Februar 2018 endete, einen Umsatz von 2,9 Milliarden US-Dollar.

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Reuters - Apple Inc has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world.

The Apple logo is seen on a computer screen in this illustration photo taken in Bordeaux, France, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo
Apple confirmed it acquired Longmont, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics. “Apple buys smaller companies from time to time, and we generally don’t discuss our purpose or plans,” the iPhone maker said in a statement.

Akonia could not immediately be reached for comment. The company was founded in 2012 by a group of holography scientists and had originally focused on holographic data storage before shifting its efforts to creating displays for augmented reality glasses, according to its website.

In augmented reality, digital information is overlaid on the real world as in the popular game Pokemon Go. Mobile phones use their camera system to do this on the phone’s screen, but major technology firms are racing to create glasses that will show digital information on transparent lenses.

Akonia said its display technology allows for “thin, transparent smart glass lenses that display vibrant, full-color, wide field-of-view images.” The firm has a portfolio of more than 200 patents related to holographic systems and materials, according to its website.

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After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service. The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. GitHub raised $350 million and we know that the company was valued at about $2 billion in 2015.

Former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman (and now Microsoft corporate vice president) will become GitHub’s CEO. GitHub funder and former CEO Chris Wanstrath will become a Microsoft technical fellow and work on strategic software initiatives. Wanstrath had retaken his CEO role after his co-founder Tom Preston-Werner resigned following a harassment investigation in 2014.

GitHub says that as of March 2018, there were 28 million developers in its community, and 85 million code repositories, making it the largest host of source code globally and a cornerstone of how many in the tech world build software.

But despite its popularity with enterprise users, individual developers and open source projects, GitHub has never turned a profit and chances are that the company decided that an acquisition was preferable over trying to IPO.

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Google reprend à LogMeIn sa plateforme IoT Xively
par Charlie Braume, le 16 février 2018 16:26

Le géant du Cloud muscle ses offres IoT en rachetant une solution et surtout une équipe pour 50 millions de dollars.

Les grands Clouds publics se préparent maintenant à la bataille de l’IoT. Ainsi pour muscler sa Google Cloud Platform et renforcer ses ressources dans ce domaine, le géant de Mountain View annonce son intention de racheter à LogMeIn sa plateforme IoT Xively. L’opération est chiffrée à 50 millions de dollars, Google reprenant à cette occasion une équipe de 45 personnes. LogMeIn avait acquis Xively (anciennement Cosm and Pachube) en 2014 pour 12 millions de dollars. S’appuyant actuellement sur la plateforme cloud de LogMeIn (Gravity), elle génèrerait selon LogMeIn un chiffre d’affaires annuel de 3 millions de dollars.

Cloud IoT Core en béta
Google se fixe comme objectif de fournir aux entreprises un service complet de gestion de données IoT appelé actuellement Cloud IoT Core .et proposé en version béta. Il s’agit de connecter de manière efficace et sûre, de traiter et de gérer les données d’une multitude d’objets distants. Antony Passemard, Product Management, IoT & Pub/Sub, Google Cloud, estime à 20 milliards le nombre d’objets connectés en 2020.

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Apple übernimmt Videoeffekte-Spezialisten Spektral
Apple hat das dänische Startup Spektral übernommen, das sich auf Videoeffekte wie Greenscreens in Kombination mit Maschinenlernen spezialisiert hat. Die Übernahme soll bereits Ende 2017 erfolgt sein, wurde aber erst jetzt publik.

Apple hat einem Bericht von Borsen zufolge das dänische Startup Spektral Ende 2017 übernommen, wie erst jetzt bekanntwurde. Das Unternehmen hat sich auf die Kombination aus Maschinenlernen und Videoeffekten spezialisiert. Es hat eine Technik für Fotos und Videos entwickelt, die die Freistellung bewegter und unbewegter Motive von ihrem Hintergrund möglich macht, ohne dass der Nutzer dafür einen Greenscreen verwenden muss. Apple soll für die Übernahme 31 Millionen US-Dollar bezahlt haben.

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Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy, as a global public resource that’s open and accessible to all. As our first strategic acquisition, Pocket contributes to our strategy by growing our mobile presence and providing people everywhere with powerful tools to discover and access high quality web content, on their terms, independent of platform or content silo.

Pocket will join Mozilla’s product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content. (Here’s a link to their blog post on the acquisition).  Pocket’s core team and technology will also accelerate Mozilla’s broader Context Graph initiative.

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Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, a social education app that utilizes short video clips to create collaborative lesson plans. The Minneapolis-based startup, which began life as Vidku, has had strong growth for an experience that has been alternatively described as Instagram and Snapchat for the cla…

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Nokia last week said that it was selling off its digital health business, after failing to develop it into a substantial business itself, but this week the Finnish company is announcing an acquisition that underscores how it is doubling down in another one of its business areas, the Internet of Things. Nokia has acquired SpaceTime Insight, a California-based IoT startup that provides predictive analytics based on machine learning algorithms.

Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, Bhaskar Gorti, president of Nokia Software, said in an interview. The startup had raised between $50 million and $65 million in funding (based on figures from Crunchbase and PitchBook), and PitchBook last estimated its valuation at just over $103 million in 2016. Backers of the startup included the energy giant E.ON, Novus Energy Partners, Zouk Capital and more.

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