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SugarCRM has agreed to acquisition by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm. Although Wednesday's announcement calls the deal "a significant investment," what typically happens when private equity moves in is that venture capital moves out. Private equity likes to own everything and thus have greater control. Although venture...

Microsoft and Amazon on Wednesday announced the release of a public preview of the integration of their Cortana and Alexa voice assistants Cortana will be available on amazon Echo devices, while Alexa will be available to U.S. customers on Windows 10 devices and on Harman Kardon Invoke speakers....

Square on Monday announced that Cash App users could buy and sell bitcoin in all 50 U.S. states Red, white, and bitcoin. Now you can use Cash App to buy bitcoin in all 50 states. pic.twitter.com/D4fhVRz7WL...

During the same week it was sued by irate investors over progress moving its customer base to the cloud, Oracle protested a procurement process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, according to The Washington Post. The lawsuit will take a long time to resolve, and it's difficult to see how the plaintiffs can prove their case -...

Nvidia on Monday announced a powerful new graphics architecture with the potential to blur the line between virtual and actual reality. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new chips at the company's SIGGRAPH 2018 event in Vancouver, Canada The Turing architecture enables a new generation of hybrid rendering that can be used to create cinematic-qua...

Most of us understand how overwhelming it can be to move to a new city. Surrounded by a host of options for dining, shopping, daycare, leisure time, auto mechanics, and everything else under the sun, making an educated decision on where to go involves some groundwork. So what is there to do? While many of us will start by going online and checking ...

Alexa Raad is the chief operating officer of Farsight Security, based in San Mateo, California. Farsight Security is a provider of real-time actionable Internet threat intelligence solutions In this exclusive interview, Raad discusses methods of curbing cybercrime by tracking bad actors through the trails they leave in the domain name system. She a...

If you're a technologist, you've probably noticed (or have been asked about) a few new things associated with Chrome 68's release last month. One of the more notable changes is that it now uses a "not secure" indicator for any site not using HTTPS. So instead of providing a notification when a site is HTTPS, it now provides the user with a warning when it isn't. ...

Tesla is trending to fail spectacularly. (CEO Elon Musk actually has an impressive failure history.) Tesla has been burning cash at an unsustainable rate, and it keeps making avoidable mistakes that weaken it. Here's what is weird: You'd think the firm's biggest problem would be that every large car maker was working behind the scenes to kill it....

The call came in less than an hour before the 8 a.m. shift was scheduled to start: A family emergency meant the regular caregiver for an elderly Dana Point, California, client couldn't make her shift that day, so a replacement caregiver was needed ASAP. Homewatch CareGivers of San Juan Capistrano (Calif.) had to quickly find and send a substitute...

A lot of people might have thought Oracle's announcement of the autonomous database at last year's OpenWorld and its subsequent release earlier this year were the whole story, but there's a lot more, and Tuesday's webcast featuring Larry Ellison was proof Ellison must find his CTO role -- since he handed the CEO reins to Safra Catz and Mark Hurd --...

Samsung unveiled its much-anticipated Galaxy Note9 Thursday at its Unpacked event in New York City. The company made several other announcements as well, as it presented its vision for a seamlessly connected world "We are creating a galaxy of experiences that span not just devices and locations but platforms and brands," said DJ Koh, CEO of Samsung...

CVS Health'a retail MinuteClinic on Wednesday announced MinuteClinic Video Visits, a new virtual healthcare offering designed to assist people with minor illnesses and injuries, skin conditions, and other wellness needs The telehealth offering will provide 24/7 access to healthcare services via mobile devices....

The Document Foundation on Wednesday announced the availability of its second major release this year, LibreOffice Fresh 6.1, with enhanced editing on Desktop, Cloud and Mobile platforms One of its most significant new features is Notebookbar, an improved experimental user interface option that resembles the ribbon interface popular with Microsoft ...

The line between journalism and public relations can be fuzzy, and news organizations have wrestled with that problem for some time. However, that line recently has become more blurred than ever, with some publications enlisting armies of nonprofessional scribes to satisfy an insatiable appetite for content. It's easy to understand why the problem...

There are many interpretations of Salesforce's elevation of Keith Block to serve as co-CEO with Marc Benioff, a decision announced Tuesday Block has been the company's vice chairman and president for several years, and the elevation simply could be a recognition of the obvious -- he's been doing the job without the title for a while....

Versium on Tuesday announced a partnership with LiveRamp, an Axiom company, to launch artificial intelligence-powered B2B audience segments,as part of a new business-to-business data management platform The partnership will let companies perform online targeting of offline business professional data that often is housed within their own CRM systems...

Artificial Intelligence plays a big role in Android 9, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, released Monday Called "Android Pie," the OS is designed to learn from its users' behavior, and apply those lessons to simplify and customize their phone experiences....

I have been writing a lot about social media becoming a utility -- in my last piece, for example -- and one friend summed up his objections very well: "Nicely written and well argued, Denis. However, the question that popped up is, will consumers be willing to pay for social media? Might charging for it cause consumers to flee?" Here are some possi...

Looking to raise capital, launch a product, and grow your business? Crowdfunding could be the answer "Crowdfunding is more than just the money," remarked Justin Giddings, CEO of The Kickstarter Guy.