Technology Roundup – Apple producing 1M face shields per week, NYC schools abandon Zoom for Teams

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Published on: April 6, 2020
Author: Amy Liu

Apple producing 1M face shields per week

“We’ve launched a company-wide effort, bringing together product designers, engineering, operations and packaging teams, and our suppliers to design, produce, and ship face shields for health workers,” Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook said in a video on Twitter.

The face shield can be assembled in two minutes and are designed to be packed 100 per box.

Apple plans to ship over 1M by the end of this week and over 1M per week after that.

NYC schools abandon Zoom for Teams

NYC’s Department of Education has banned the use of Zoom Video (ZM -8.1%) in the city’s classrooms.

Asked about the company during a press conference, Mayor de Blasio says there has “been an effort by the Department of Education to work with that company to ensure the privacy of our students to make sure their information could not be accessed wrongly. The chancellor and the team at the Department of Education do not believe the company has cooperated..”

The Department of Education instead recommends Google or Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Teams. The DOE has been training schools to use Teams “for several weeks.”

The surge in remote workers and learners has driven up Zoom’s stock and its security controversies.

Cisco to acquire backhaul specialist Fluidmesh

Cisco Systems (CSCO +3.8%) has announced it will acquire Fluidmesh Networks, which delivers wireless backhaul solutions.

Terms weren’t disclosed.

Fluidmesh technology is made to offer reliability and resilience in wireless solutions for mission critical applications, including high-speed rail/mass transit and other areas with challenging signal strength, including ports and urban areas.

It will shore up Cisco’s approach in industrial wireless and speed up its industrial Internet of Things operations, Cisco says. Fluidmesh’s team will join Cisco’s IoT business.

The deal’s expected to close in Cisco’s fiscal Q4.

IBM names BofA CTO as cloud head

IBM (NYSE:IBM) appoints Howard Boville to head its cloud business.

Boville previously served as Bank of America’s CTO.

Last year, IBM and BofA teamed up on a financial services cloud technology.

IBM names Paul Cormier to head Red Hat to replace Jim Whitehurst, who was previously named IBM’s president.

Arvind Krishna takes the reins as IBM CEO starting today.

MaxLinear buys Intel’s home gateway assets

MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) will acquire Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) Home Gateway Platform Division assets, which includes the Wi-Fi Access Points, Ethernet, and Home Gateway SoC products.

The all-cash transaction is valued at $150M.

MAXL expects to initially add $60-70M in quarterly revenue, and the acquisition is expected to be accretive to non-GAAP earnings in the first full quarter after the deal closes.

The deal is expected to close in Q3.

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