In minimizing upfront investment for CSPs by providing a turnkey, as-a-service based offering, the Cisco, Qwilt, and Digital Alpha alliance is ready to mitigate operational and business peril for risk-averse CSPs. Now CSPs have the opportunity to embrace the alliance’s proposition to redefine the economics of content delivery across their networks by exercising control and visibility over the content delivered through their networks. As a result, CSPs are able to create new revenue streams, realize optimal backhaul savings, while mitigating financial and business risk in fulfilling their CDN monetization objectives.
Twilio Set to Acquire Rising CDP Leader Segment for $3.2 Billion
Twilio has announced its intent to complete the acquisition of one of the leading CDP companies, Segment, in a $3.2 billion all stock deal.
AMD’s Rumored Xilinx Acquisition: Interesting Move, But Not a Game Changer
AMD is allegedly deep in talks with Xilinx to acquire the chipmaker, which focuses on high end FPGA’s for the datacenter.
Lattice Semiconductor Defense Event: The Best Defense is a Clearly Differentiated FPGA Portfolio
Lattice’s ability to clearly differentiate its FPGA portfolio against formidable rivals such as Intel and Xilinx will power its ability to defend the company’s leadership position as the largest volume supplier of FPGAs globally, fortifying its supply chain reliability in delivering cutting edge integrated defense solutions. Now Lattice is firmly positioned to validate that its investments in areas such as AI, automation, and cloud computing will help fundamentally drive hardware and software innovation across the defense industry as well as other industries.
Pros Emphasizes Self-Service as the Future of Commerce
At this year’s annual Pros Outperform 2020 conference, the company put forward a vision of a future in b2b and b2c where self service leads.
IP Judgement Against Cisco is Destined for Federal Appeal
Cisco was ruled against in a recent judgement awarded to Centripetal Networks to the tune of $1.9 Billion, but a federal appeal will follow.
NVIDIA Delivers Big AI Updates at its GTC 20 Conference
NVIDIA GTC 20 kicked off Monday and the company delivered a robust set of updates that focused on AI from edge to datacenter to cloud.
IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator Focuses on Diversity and Inclusion in Startups
In the world of tech and venture capitalism, specifically, there remains a large gap between the number of women and minorities actively launching new companies and attracting support from funders. This year, IBM’s Hyper Protect Accelerator program aims to lessen the gap by focusing on companies with diverse teams.
ICYMI: 2016 $15 Billion Judgment Against Apple Hangs on by a Thread Following General Court of the European Court of Justice Ruling
At the heart of the European Commission’s case against Apple (and by default, to some degree, against Ireland) is the fact that EU member States, under EU state aid rules, are prohibited from providing tax benefits to select companies. In 2016, the EC concluded that Ireland had granted illegally preferential and artificially low tax benefits to Apple.
NVIDIA’s Deal with Arm Paves the Path to a Trillion-Dollar Market Value
The announcement was met with investor excitement, driving NVIDIA’s share price up as much as 8% and adding more than $25 billion to its market value — about two-thirds of the equity needed to make the acquisition.