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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. ...
Meta implements new timing protocol in its data centers
Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed an internal initiative years in the making that focused on upgrading its data centers’ timing protocol, a core technology component that many of the company’s services rely on to work. Every server in a data center features a clock that enables it to log the time when calculations are carried ...
SandboxAQ receives post-quantum cryptography contract from the US Air Force
SandboxAQ, a startup that spun out of Alphabet Inc. earlier this year, has won a contract to help the U.S. Air Force implement post-quantum cryptography. The contract was announced today. SandboxAQ, officially SB Technology Inc., originally launched in 2016 as an internal project at Alphabet’s X research division. SandboxAQ spun out of Alphabet in March ...