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Instant delivery startup Gopuff reportedly raising up to $300M in debt financing
Gopuff, an instant delivery startup that received a $15 billion valuation last year, is reportedly seeking to raise as much as $300 million in new debt financing. The Wall Street Journal reported the news today, citing sources familiar with the startup’s plans. Gopuff, incorporated as GoBrands Inc., operates a so-called instant delivery platform through which ...
IBM and VMware expand their technology partnership
IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. are expanding their long-running partnership to better support customers’ information technology modernization initiatives. The companies announced the move today at the VMware Explore 2022 conference in San Francisco. The expanded alliance places a particular emphasis on public sector organizations, as well as private sector companies in regulated industries such as ...
VMware expands multicloud portfolio at VMware Explore 2022 with new offerings
VMware Inc. today introduced a flurry of new products and features that will enable enterprises to manage their multicloud environments more efficiently. The new additions to VMware’s product portfolio, which made their debut at the company’s VMware Explore 2022 conference, span multiple use cases. Some of the offerings are designed to help companies secure their ...
FTC files lawsuit against data broker Kochava
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit in which it accuses Kochava Inc., an Idaho-based data broker, of selling geolocation data that can be used to track consumers’ movements. The FTC announced the lawsuit today. Kochava is a so-called data broker, or a company that collects information about consumers from multiple sources and ...
StarTree secures $47M in funding for its user-facing analytics platform
StarTree Inc., a startup commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot data analytics platform, today announced that it has secured $47 million in a new funding. The Series B funding round follows a $24 million Series A investment that StarTree announced last May. GGV Capital, one of the participants in last year’s investment, led the startup’s latest ...
Teradata debuts new VantageCloud product suite to ease data analytics in the cloud
Teradata Corp. today launched VantageCloud, a suite of products designed to help companies more easily extract insights from their business data. Publicly traded Teradata is a major player in the data management market. The company sells a data platform that organizations use to centrally store business information and analyze it for useful insights. Last quarter, ...
T-Mobile partners with SpaceX to provide satellite-powered network connectivity
T-Mobile US Inc. will use SpaceX Corp.’s Starlink satellite network to provide cellular coverage to customers, the companies announced on Thursday. Starlink is a constellation of internet satellites deployed in low Earth orbit. It’s designed to provide connectivity in areas that are beyond the reach of traditional ground-based carrier networks. Over the past few years, ...
Enterprise software maker OpenText to acquire Micro Focus for $6B
Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. will acquire Micro Focus International plc, another major player in the enterprise software market, for $6 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Thursday. The $6 billion that OpenText is offering values U.K.-based Micro Focus at 5.32 pounds per share, a 98.7% premium to the most recent closing price of ...
Google Cloud makes its VMTD malware detection service generally available
Google LLC today announced the general availability of VMTD, a service that can detect if hackers attempt to use a company’s cloud environment to mine cryptocurrency. VMTD stands for Virtual Machine Threat Detection. The service was first released in public preview earlier this year and has since been adopted by customers “around the world and ...
Google begins rolling out its AI Test Kitchen machine learning app
Google LLC today began rolling out its AI Test Kitchen app, which will enable users to interact with advanced neural networks developed by the search giant’s engineers. Google first previewed AI Test Kitchen at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. The app will allow members of the public to interact with Google’s newest artificial ...