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Twitter reportedly closes key Brussels office
Twitter Inc. has closed an office in Brussels that helped lead its efforts to comply with the European Union’s disinformation code, the Financial Times reported today. The development comes less than a month after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. According to the Financial Times, some of the staffers who left the ...
Report: FTC may sue to block Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will likely seek to block Microsoft Corp.’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., according to a new report. Politico on Wednesday cited sources as saying that the FTC could file a lawsuit to block the deal as soon as next month. However, the sources cautioned that it’s not ...
Taktile reels in $20M for its automated decision platform
Taktile GmbH, a startup that helps companies such as banks and insurers automate business decisions, has closed a $20 million funding round. Index Ventures and Tiger Global jointly led the Series A round, which was announced on Tuesday. The investment follows a year in which Taktile claims to have more than tripled its revenue. The ...
Violent protests reportedly break out at key iPhone factory in China
Violent protests have reportedly erupted at a factory in China that produces most of Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones. The factory is located in the city of Zhengzhou and is believed to employ more than 200,000 people. It’s operated by Foxconn, a major Apple supplier that is incorporated as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Foxconn assembles ...
RedBrick AI raises $4.6M to ease AI development in the healthcare sector
Zantula Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that does business as RedBrick AI, has secured $4.6 million in seed funding to support business growth initiatives. RedBrick AI announced the funding round today. The lead investor in the round was Surge, a joint venture between Sequoia India and Sequoia Southeast Asia that provides startups with funding along ...
UK starts investigation into Apple and Google over mobile practices
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has launched an investigation into Apple Inc. and Google LLC over their business practices in the mobile market. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, announced the investigation today. The move follows a consultation that the CMA held with several market players including a number of mobile browser developers. Earlier, the regulator ...
Meta develops AI system capable of playing ‘Diplomacy’
Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed that it has developed an artificial intelligence system capable of playing the popular “Diplomacy” board game. Until now, “Diplomacy” was considered too difficult to be played by an AI system. The board game is played by two to seven players who must negotiate alliances with one another to win. Moreover, each ...
AWS launches new cloud infrastructure region in India, will invest $4.4B
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a new cloud infrastructure region in India to grow its local market presence. An AWS infrastructure region is a cluster of cloud data centers located in the same geographic area. The data centers are organized into so-called Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone is supported by separate cooling and networking equipment, ...
Google shares new details about its water stewardship efforts
Google LLC today shared new details about an internal effort focused on optimizing its data centers’ water consumption using climate-conscious cooling approaches. The effort is part of a water stewardship initiative that Google first announced last year. Through the initiative, the search giant is aiming to replenish more water than its data centers and offices ...
UK regulator launches inquiry into Broadcom’s proposed VMware acquisition
The U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, is investigating Broadcom Inc.’s proposed acquisition of VMware for $61.2 billion. The CMA announced the development today. Nasdaq-listed Broadcom is a major supplier of chips for data centers. The company’s silicon is used in data center networking devices such as switches, storage hardware and other systems. ...