Month: March 2020
BMC snaps up Compuware
BMC has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase its longtime mainframe software competitor Compuware. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, both companies expect the purchase to be completed in the coming months following customary closing conditions. The strategic combination of BMC and Compuware…
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Stanford group wants to use your computer to help researchers study the coronavirus
Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project is seeking volunteers to help researchers develop treatment therapies for the novel coronavirus. Folding@home (FAH) uses the processing capacity of networked computers to simulate the complex process of protein folding, which helps determine how to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and SARS, another…
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Connie Chan of Andreessen Horowitz discusses consumer tech’s winners and losers
Last week, I sat down with Connie Chan, a general partner with Andreessen Horowitz who focuses on investing in consumer tech. She joined the firm in 2011 after working at HP in China. From her temporary offices located in a modest skyscraper with unobscured views of San Francisco, we talked…
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Chinese nationals helped North Korea launder stolen cryptocurrency, US officials say
North Korean hackers stole $250 million worth of cryptocurrency from an exchange and two Chinese nationals helped them launder $100 million of it using prepaid iTunes gift cards and other methods, according to the US Department of Justice. The US Treasury Department says the scheme is tied to the Lazarus…
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Aurora VP Jinnah Hosein is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI is tomorrow and we have one more exciting speaker announcement to share. Jinnah Hosein, the vice president of software engineering at self-driving vehicle startup Aurora, is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI at UC Berkeley on March 3. Hosein will join Ike Robotics CTO and…
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Epic delays Fortnite tournaments until it fixes performance issues
Epic Games announced today that it won’t be hosting any Fortnite tournaments with cash prizes until it addresses performance issues affecting both players and the game’s servers. “Our goal is to improve performance before kicking off any cash prized competition,” the company said in a statement. For Chapter 2 –…
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