China’s Huawei launches new software for intelligent driving
By Qiaoyi Li and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tech company Huawei unveiled on Wednesday a new software brand for intelligent driving, marking its latest push to become a major player in the electric vehicle industry. The new brand Qiankun, symbolising
New Cadence supercomputers aim to speed creation of chips, software
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems on Wednesday introduced the latest version of supercomputer based around a custom computing chip designed to speed up the creation of other computing chips and the software that will run on them. Cadence makes
Software giant Salesforce in advanced talks to buy Informatica
By Anirban Sen (Reuters) - Customer relations software maker Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Informatica, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, in the latest sign of increased deal-making in the technology sector. A deal could be
Software industry calls for more UK Government support
By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has been urged to provide more support for the software industry with measures including tax incentives and talent visas. More than 120 industry leaders have called for government intervention to improve conditions for European
Japan chipmaker Renesas to buy software firm Altium for $5.9 billion
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Renesas Electronics on Thursday said it would buy electronics design firm Altium for $5.9 billion in cash, as the acquisitive automotive chipmaker looks to offer digital device design to customers. The acquisition places Renesas at
Founder of China AI software developer SenseTime, Tang Xiaoou, dies
By Shanghai Newsroom SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime Group, one of China's biggest artificial intelligence firms, died late on Friday, the company said on Saturday. Tang, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, started the software
Optus parent SingTel denies software upgrade as root cause for outage
By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, the parent of Australian telecoms provider Optus, said on Thursday its planned software update was not the root cause for an outage last week, contradicting Optus' claims earlier this week. More than 10 million
Software firm Okta’s shares slump on cyber breach
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) - Okta on Friday disclosed a breach of its customer support system that allowed some hackers to view files uploaded by certain clients, pushing the software company's shares down about 12%. "Okta security has identified adversarial activity that
Ford exec expects software to boost revenue for commercial trucks, vans
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Ford Motor expects to incorporate more and better software into the trucks and vans in its highly profitable Ford Pro commercial vehicle business and grow revenues by $4,000-$5,000 per vehicle in the future, a top executive