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Amazon asks FTC to limit certain aspects of Prime investigation
Amazon.com Inc. has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to limit certain aspects of an investigation that the agency is conducting into the company’s Prime membership program. The retail and cloud computing giant made the request in a regulatory filing that was released on Monday. Amazon’s Prime program enables users to access discounts and other ...
Cloudian expands product portfolio with new HyperBalance load balancer
Cloudian Inc. today expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of HyperBalance, a new load balancer that companies can use to optimize their storage infrastructure. Cloudian is a data management startup backed by more than $170 million in funding. The startup sells software that companies use to manage their business data, recover from outages and ...
Gorgias nabs $30M to ease customer service for online retailers
Gorgias Inc., a startup with a customer service platform optimized for online retailers, today announced that it has closed a $30 million funding round. Transpose Platform and e-commerce software giant Shopify Inc. jointly led the Series C round. Gorgias is now reportedly valued at $710 million, up from $680 million before the investment. San Francisco-based ...
Unity rejects AppLovin’s $20B merger offer
Video game development specialist Unity Software Inc. has rejected a $20 billion merger offer from AppLovin Corp., a major provider of mobile advertising software. Unity announced the decision today. According to the company, its board has unanimously determined that the merger offer is “not in the best interests of Unity shareholders.” San Francisco-based Unity provides ...
Infrastructure specialist Nutanix to lay off 270 workers
Nutanix Inc. is reportedly laying off about 4% of its workforce, or approximately 270 employees, as part of a cost reduction initiative. The Information reported the move on Thursday. Nutanix, which sells software for managing information technology infrastructure, disclosed the layoffs in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company expects to ...
Google fined $42.7M in Australia over Android’s location tracking settings
Google LLC has agreed to pay a fine of 60 million Australian dollars, or about $42.7 million, to settle a lawsuit filed by Australia’s competition regulator over the location tracking settings in Android. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or ACCC, announced the fine today. The ACCC filed a lawsuit against Google and its Australian ...
Intel develops new chip technology to block hardware-based cyberattacks
Intel Corp. today detailed a new chip technology designed to help organizations more effectively block hardware-based hacking attempts. Some cyberattacks use vulnerabilities in the software installed on a server to steal data. Other cyberattacks target not the software that runs on a server, but rather the server itself. Hackers cause hardware malfunctions in a bid ...
FTC will explore new data privacy rules to regulate the tech industry
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today launched an effort to explore whether it should implement new rules to regulate the tech industry. As part of the initiative, the FTC has released a document known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, or ANPR for short. The ANPR invites members of the public to provide feedback ...
Google rolls out new AI features to improve search results
Google LLC has updated its search engine with new artificial intelligence capabilities that will help improve the accuracy of search results. Pandu Nayak, a Google Fellow and the company’s vice president of search, detailed the new AI features in a blog post published today. The features join the extensive set of existing AI capabilities that ...
Samsung debuts faster foldable devices and new smartwatches
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted its latest foldable devices, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the Galaxy Z Flip 4, and introduced two new smartwatches powered by a custom chip. The Fold 4 is a 7.6-inch tablet that can fold like a book to turn into a 6.2-inch smartphone. It has two separate displays, ...