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Report: Meta could launch retail stores as part of metaverse push
Executives at Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook Inc., are reportedly considering launching a network of retail stores to help promote the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality devices. The New York Times revealed the plan in a report this morning. According to the report, sources familiar with the matter and company documents indicate that the ...
Filing for IPO, HashiCorp discloses $212M in annual revenue and fast growth
HashiCorp Inc., the maker of popular open-source tools used by organizations to automate their information technology infrastructure, today filed for an initial public offering. Like other enterprise tech firms that have moved to list their shares in recent quarters, HashiCorp is unprofitable but boasts fast revenue growth. HashiCorp boosted sales from $121.3 million in the ...
Google acquires $1B stake in CME Group as companies ink 10-year cloud deal
CME Group Inc., which operates several major exchanges used to trade in financial instruments, will move its technology infrastructure to Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a 10-year agreement that the companies announced today. In conjunction, Google disclosed that it has bought $1 billion worth of CME Group stock. Making such a major investment ...
Report: Google seeking to join Pentagon’s JWCC multicloud procurement program
Google LLC is seeking to participate in the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability technology procurement program, the New York Times reported late Wednesday. The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, program is the successor to the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure of JEDI cloud contract that the DOD scrapped earlier this year. The ...
CISA creates vulnerability catalog to improve federal agencies’ cybersecurity
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued a binding operational directive that tackles vulnerabilities in federal agencies’ information technology systems. The directive has two main elements. First, CISA has created a catalog of more than 300 vulnerabilities that are being actively used by hackers to launch cyberattacks. Second, officials are instructing civilian federal ...
GitHub names product head Thomas Dohmke new CEO
Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub subsidiary today announced a leadership change, revealing that Chief Product Officer Thomas Dohmke will become chief executive effective Nov. 15. Dohmke (pictured) is taking over the reins from current CEO Nat Friedman, who has been at the helm for the past three years. Friedman was appointed to lead GitHub after the code ...
US Commerce Department sanctions spyware maker NSO Group and three others
The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that it has sanctioned four companies after finding they have engaged in malicious cybersecurity activities. The companies are Israel-based NSO Group and Candiru, Russia-based Positive Technologies and Singapore-based Computer Security Initiative Consultancy. The sanctions were applied by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. As a result, ...
Microsoft debuts new Azure virtual machines optimized for confidential computing
Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the security of enterprise applications. Confidential computing is a cybersecurity method whereby a server’s central processing unit turns a portion of the onboard memory into an isolated data ...
Dell upgrades hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio with new servers and software
Dell Technologies Inc. is upgrading its portfolio of hyperconverged infrastructure systems with faster servers that use latest-generation Intel Corp. silicon, as well as an enhanced version of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack platform. Dell announced the updates against the backdrop of Microsoft’s Ignite 2021 event today, where the cloud giant debuted a number of improvements for ...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises $600M at reported $8.6B valuation
Less than a year after closing its previous $500 million funding round, autonomous delivery startup Nuro Inc. today said that it has raised an additional $600 million to hire more employees and enhance its technology. Google LLC, SoftBank Group Corp. and several others participated in Nuro’s latest round alongside Tiger Global, which was the lead ...