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IBM’s quest to become the go-to medical analytics service has taken a step further after the $1 billion (around £650 million, or AU$1.36 billion) acquisition of Merge Healthcare. The company has been absorbed by IBM’s Watson Health platform that uses immense supercomputing power to filter through huge amounts of research and medical data to give professionals the information they need within seconds. “The planned acquisition bolsters IBM’s strategy to add
IBM’s quest to become the go-to medical analytics service has taken a step further after the $1 billion (around £650 million, or AU$1.36 billion) acquisition of Merge Healthcare. The company has been absorbed by IBM’s Watson Health platform that uses immense supercomputing power to filter through huge amounts of research and medical data to give professionals the information they need within seconds. “The planned acquisition bolsters IBM’s strategy to add
By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Google Inc and Samsung Electronics Co will release monthly security fixes for Android phones, a growing target for hackers, after the disclosure of a bug designed to attack the world’s most popular mobile operating system. The change came after security researcher Joshua Drake unveiled what he called Stagefright, hacking software that allows attackers to send a special multimedia message to an Android phone
By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Google Inc and Samsung Electronics Co will release monthly security fixes for Android phones, a growing target for hackers, after the disclosure of a bug designed to attack the world’s most popular mobile operating system. The change came after security researcher Joshua Drake unveiled what he called Stagefright, hacking software that allows attackers to send a special multimedia message to an Android phone
By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Google Inc and Samsung Electronics Co will release monthly security fixes for Android phones, a growing target for hackers, after the disclosure of a bug designed to attack the world’s most popular mobile operating system. The change came after security researcher Joshua Drake unveiled what he called Stagefright, hacking software that allows attackers to send a special multimedia message to an Android phone
(Reuters) – China-linked hackers have breached the computer systems of U.S. airline company American Airline Group Inc and travel reservations platform provider Sabre Corp , Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the investigations. The same hackers had targeted insurer Anthem Inc in February and the U.S. government’s personnel office in June, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The group had also hacked the systems of another U.S. airline operator United Continental Holdings
(Reuters) – China-linked hackers have breached the computer systems of U.S. airline company American Airline Group Inc and travel reservations platform provider Sabre Corp , Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the investigations. The same hackers had targeted insurer Anthem Inc in February and the U.S. government’s personnel office in June, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The group had also hacked the systems of another U.S. airline operator United Continental Holdings
(Reuters) – China-linked hackers have breached the computer systems of U.S. airline company American Airline Group Inc and travel reservations platform provider Sabre Corp , Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the investigations. The same hackers had targeted insurer Anthem Inc in February and the U.S. government’s personnel office in June, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The group had also hacked the systems of another U.S. airline operator United Continental Holdings
British online gambling company GVC Holdings Plc raised its offer to buy rival Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc for a second time in two weeks, hoping to persuade the company to reject 888 Holdings Plc’s offer. GVC’s latest offer, backed by U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is worth 1.03 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) in cash and stock and is only slightly higher than its previous offer of about 1
British online gambling company GVC Holdings Plc raised its offer to buy rival Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc for a second time in two weeks, hoping to persuade the company to reject 888 Holdings Plc’s offer. GVC’s latest offer, backed by U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is worth 1.03 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) in cash and stock and is only slightly higher than its previous offer of about 1
