Month: February 2020
TikTok is letting parents set how much time their kids can spend on the app
TikTok understands how easy it is to spend hours sitting around and watching videos, so the company is giving parents more control over how long their kids can spend on the app. Under the new Family Safety Mode, parents will be able to control how long their children can spend…
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As Google heads to the Supreme Court, Oracle takes aim at its industry allies
For almost 10 years, Google and Oracle have been fighting over a set of Android APIs, and for almost that long, conventional wisdom has been that the tech industry is on Google’s side. But as the case moves to the Supreme Court for the second time, Oracle is taking aim…
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Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone
Google today announced that it has acquired Cornerstone, a Dutch company that specializes in helping enterprise migrate their legacy workloads from mainframes to public clouds. Cornerstone, which provides very hands-on migration assistance, will form the basis of Google Cloud’s mainframe-to-GCP solutions. This move is very much in line with Google…
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GTA IV to return to Steam next month following Games for Windows Live hiccup
Grand Theft Auto IV is returning to Steam on March 19th, a little over two months after its use of the defunct Games for Windows Live platform forced Rockstar to pull it from sale. Rockstar made the announcement on the game’s Steam page where it said that the game will…
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 update is focused on harnessing data
Microsoft announced a major update to its Dynamics 365 product line today, which correlates to the growing amount of data in the enterprise, and how to collect and understand that data to produce better customer experiences. This is, in fact, the goal of all vendors in this space including Salesforce…
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Fintech VC sets records in Q4 despite early-stage slowdown
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Fintech is what you hear about constantly, but probably aren’t as read up on as you’d like to be. Neither am I. Luckily we have a new report concerning fintech…
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