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Antimatter raises $12M to ease cybersecurity for software-as-a-service providers
Cybersecurity startup Antimatter today launched from stealth mode and announced that it has closed a $12 million early-stage funding round led by NEA. More than a half-dozen other investors participated in the Series A round as well. They included General Catalyst and UNION Labs, as well as the founders of Snowflake Inc., Databricks Inc., VMware ...
Microsoft acquires process mining startup Minit
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired Minit j.s.a., a startup focused on helping organizations make their business operations more efficient. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Slovakia-based Minit previously raised more than $10 million in funding from investors that included Salesforce.com Inc.’s venture capital arm. Minit provides a process mining platform ...
Intel acquires infrastructure optimization startup Granulate for a reported $650M
Intel Corp. is acquiring Granulate Cloud Solutions Ltd., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies speed up their applications and reduce infrastructure costs. Intel announced the deal this morning. It didn’t disclose financial terms, but TechCrunch cited multiple sources as saying the acquisition price was $650 million. The amount of data center infrastructure ...
Waymo to test fully autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Phoenix
Waymo LLC plans to test a ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Phoenix that will use autonomous vehicles capable of operating without a safety driver behind the wheel. The Alphabet Inc. unit announced the move today. In San Francisco, Waymo already operates a fleet of autonomous vehicles that users can access through a mobile app. Currently, ...
Intel debuts its first Arc graphics cards for the laptop market
Intel Corp. today introduced the Arc A-Series, a new line of standalone graphics processing units for laptops. Intel has long provided integrated GPUs as part of its ubiquitous central processing units. However, the company historically didn’t make available standalone GPUs, which aren’t integrated with a laptop’s CPU but rather run as a separate component. Such ...
DOD delays JWCC cloud contract awards to December
The U.S. Department of Defense will award contracts as part of its JWCC cloud computing procurement program in December instead of April as previously planned, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The JWCC, or Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, program was announced last year. It’s a procurement initiative designed to modernize the Pentagon’s information technology operations using public ...
AI process intelligence startup Skan raises $40M
Startup Skan Inc., which helps enterprises make their business operations more efficient, today said that it has closed a $40 million funding round led by Dell Technologies Inc.’s venture capital arm. Skan has raised a total of $54 million from investors since launching in 2019. Enterprises are adopting robotic process automation software from companies such ...
Application testing startup LambdaTest raises $45M in funding
Startup LambdaTest Inc., which helps developers at companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. develop software faster, today announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. The Series C funding round was led by Premji Invest. Returning LambdaTest investors Sequoia Capital India, Telstra Ventures, Blume Ventures and Leo Capital participated as well. ...
Investor group to acquire Nielsen for $16B
An investor group led by Elliott Investment Management and Brookfield Business Partners has inked an agreement to acquire Nielsen Holdings plc for $16 billion. Nielsen announced the deal this morning. The $16 billion acquisition price amounts to $28 per share, a 60% premium over the last closing price of the company’s stock before its plans ...
Mobile security startup Zimperium acquired by Liberty Strategic Capital for $525M
Mobile cybersecurity provider Zimperium Inc. today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Liberty Strategic Capital in a transaction worth about $525 million. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the founder and managing partner of Liberty Strategic Capital, will become the chair of Zimperium’s board. Existing investor SoftBank Group Corp. is set to ...