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Amazon offers commitments to address EU antitrust concerns
Amazon.com Inc. has offered to change some of its business practices to address antitrust concerns raised by European Union regulators. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced the development today. Amazon enables third-party merchants to sell their products on its e-commerce marketplace. Amazon also sells its own products on the marketplace and, in some ...
Search engine startup You nabs $25M in funding
You, a startup challenging Google LLC in the search engine market, today disclosed that it has closed a $25 million funding round led by Radical Ventures. A number of other investors participated as well. Breyer Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Day One Ventures and Time Ventures, an investment fund operated by Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff, ...
Software makers Unity and ironSource to merge in $4.4B deal
Publicly traded software companies Unity Software Inc. and ironSource Mobile Ltd. today announced plans to merge in a transaction worth $4.4 billion. San Francisco-based Unity sells a video game development platform of the same name that ranks as one of the most popular products in its category. The company also has a presence in other ...
Incident.io raises $28.7M to simplify companies’ incident response initiatives
Incident.io, a startup that helps companies respond to incidents such as application outages more efficiently, has raised a $28.7 million Series A funding round. The company detailed in its announcement of the round today that Index Ventures was the lead investor. Point Nine, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and Mantis VC participated as well. The investment ...
Google Cloud debuts Arm-based Tau T2A instances and batch processing service
Google LLC’s cloud business today introduced a new series of instances based on Arm Ltd. silicon and a managed service that promises to simplify batch processing tasks. Both offerings made their debut at the company’s Infrastructure Spotlight event. The latest addition to Google Cloud’s instance portfolio is the Tau T2A instance series. The series is ...
Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs raises $105M in funding
Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs Inc. today announced that it has closed a $105 million funding round co-led by Snowpoint and Baille Gifford. According to Merlin Labs, the Series B round also included “significant participation” from Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm. GV co-led the startup’s previous $25 million raise last year with First Round ...
Styra debuts cloud service to simplify application authorization for developers
Styra Inc. today debuted Styra Run, a cloud service aimed at helping developers implement authorization features in their applications with less effort. Authorization is the process of regulating which user can access what feature of an application and how. A bank, for example, must ensure that a user logging into its mobile app can’t access ...
Tecton raises $100M from prominent investors to accelerate AI development
Tecton Inc., a startup with a cloud platform that promises to help companies speed up their artificial intelligence development projects, has raised $100 million in fresh funding. The company announced the Series C round this morning. The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Databricks Inc. and Snowflake Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Bain ...
Researchers open-source neural network with 176B parameters
A group of researchers today released Bloom, an advanced natural language processing model that features 176 billion parameters. The researchers have made the code for Bloom available under an open-source license. The project began last year as collaboration between Hugging Face Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that recently raised $100 million from investors, and two ...
Database startup SingleStore raises $116M in funding
Database startup SingleStore Inc. today announced that it has secured a $116 million investment led by Goldman Sachs, giving it a valuation of more than $1 billion. The investment is an extension to a $80 million Series F funding round that SingleStore announced last year. Goldman Sachs was joined by more than a half-dozen other ...