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China conditionally approves AMD’s proposed $35B purchase of Xilinx
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has conditionally approved Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s proposed $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx Inc., Reuters reported today. San Jose, California-based Xilinx is a leading provider of field-programmable gate array, or FPGA, processors. FGPAs are a type of versatile processor that can be customized to perform many different computing tasks. ...
Microsoft will roll out Android app support to Windows 11 in February
Microsoft Corp. plans to update Windows 11 next month with the public preview version of a feature that will enable users to run Android apps. Panos Panay, chief product officer for Microsoft’s Windows + Devices division, detailed the upcoming feature today. The executive stated that the company will also roll out improvements to the Windows ...
White House announces zero-trust strategy to improve government cybersecurity
The White House today announced a strategy for implementing zero-trust security, a popular cybersecurity approach, across the federal government’s digital infrastructure. Zero-trust security is a more effective approach to protecting networks from hacking attempts than the perimeter-based strategy that organizations have historically used. It’s being increasingly adopted across both the public and private sectors. In ...
Canonical releases Charmed Kubeflow 1.4 to simplify enterprise AI projects
Canonical Ltd. on Tuesday released Charmed Kubeflow 1.4, the newest version of its platform for simplifying enterprise artificial intelligence projects. U.K.-based Canonical is the maker of Ubuntu, one of the most widely used versions of the Linux operating system. Ubuntu is especially popular in the enterprise, where it’s commonly used to power public cloud environments. ...
Commvault tops third-quarter expectations with record revenue
Data protection and management provider Commvault Systems Inc. today posted financial results for its fiscal third quarter, disclosing that revenue increased 8% year-over-year, to a record $202.4 billion. Commvault’s revenue in the three months through Dec. 31 exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by more than 3%. Today’s earnings report marks the third time in a year that ...
Data lakehouse startup Dremio doubles valuation to $2B with $160M round
Data analytics specialist Dremio Corp. is now valued at $2 billion, double what it was worth a year ago, after raising $160 million in new funding. Dremio said in its announcement of the Series E funding round today that Adams Street Partners led the investment. StepStone Group and DTCP participated as well. The three firms ...
Nvidia reportedly moving to scrap $40B Arm acquisition
Nvidia Corp. is moving to scrap its proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip design firm Arm Ltd., Bloomberg reported today. The sources cited by Bloomberg added that SoftBank Group Corp., which owns Arm, plans to take the chip design firm public in the event the acquisition process is halted. Nvidia’s shares dropped more than 5% ...
Wisk Aero raises $450M to build autonomous air taxis
Wisk Aero LLC, an air taxi startup, today said that it has raised $450 million from The Boeing Co. to advance its goal of building a passenger aircraft fleet with capacity for more than 10 million flights a year. Mountain View, California-based Wisk detailed that a part of the funds will go toward developing a ...
Report: Apple will debut more than a dozen new hardware products in the fall
Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce the “widest array of new hardware products in its history” this year, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. Alongside the next generation of its flagship iPhone series, Apple is expected to debut a redesigned MacBook Air laptop, an iPad Pro tablet with wireless charging features and multiple desktop computers. In the ...
Washington D.C. and three states sue Google over location data collection practices
The attorneys general of Washington, D.C., Texas, Indiana and Washington state are suing Google LLC for allegedly using deceptive practices to collect users’ location data. Each attorney general is launching a separate lawsuit against Google over the matter, the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia stated in an announcement today. The ...