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Intel teams up with Benteler and Beep to develop self-driving shuttles
Intel Corp. today announced that it’s teaming up with auto parts giant Benteler International AG and transportation startup Beep Inc. to deploy fully autonomous shuttles in the U.S. The planned shuttles are set to feature so-called Level 4 autonomy, meaning they will be capable of driving without any human input. Reuters reported that the vehicles ...
Intel details plan to launch blockchain accelerator chip
Intel Corp. today announced plans to launch a blockchain accelerator chip later this year that will be capable of running an algorithm commonly used for bitcoin mining. The chip was created by a business unit known as the Custom Compute Group. Intel formed the unit to “develop custom silicon platforms optimized for customers’ workloads,” stated ...
Google Cloud launches new AMD-based instances for high-performance workloads
Google LLC’s cloud business on Thursday announced the general availability of the C2D instance series, which is based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s newest Epyc server processors. The C2D instances target performance-intensive workloads such as semiconductor design software and databases. The launch continues AMD’s recent momentum in the cloud market, which helped double its data ...
Superconductive raises $40M for its data quality technology
Data quality startup Superconductive today said that it has secured a $40 million funding round led by prominent technology investor Tiger Global. Index, CRV and Root Ventures participated in the Series B round as well. Salt Lake City-based Superconductive has raised a total of $64.5 million in funding since launch. Superconductive develops Great Expectations, a ...
API security startup Salt Security valued at $1.4B in latest $140M funding round
Salt Security Inc., a startup focused on protecting application programming interfaces from cyberattacks, has raised $140 million in new funding after increasing revenue fivefold over the past year. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG investment arm led the funding round, which was announced by Salt Security today. The Palo Alto, California-based startup is now valued at $1.4 billion. ...
Twitter grows revenue by 22% in fourth quarter but misses expectations
Twitter Inc. today posted fourth-quarter revenue of $1.57 billion, 22% more than a year ago but slightly less than what analysts were expecting. While Twitter logged sales of $1.57 billion in the three months ended Dec. 31, analysts polled for the Refinitiv consensus estimate were expecting $1.58 billion. The company’s adjusted earnings, in turn, amounted ...
Pure Storage and AWS announce strategic investment to simplify Kubernetes deployments
Pure Storage Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a three-year strategic investment to help enterprises more easily manage their cloud-based software container environments. A growing number of companies are adopting software containers in their application projects. Many of those organizations are deploying their containerized workloads on AWS’ Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Amazon EKS ...
Operational analytics startup Census raises $60M round led by Tiger Global
Operational analytics startup Census has closed a $60 million funding round that was led by Tiger Global with participation from Insight Partners, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. Census, incorporated as Sutro Labs Inc., announced the Series B investment today. The startup will invest the funding in business growth initiatives and software development. San Francisco-based Census provides ...
Shares of Avaya plunge after first-quarter results miss expectations
Shares of communications software provider Avaya Holdings Corp. dropped more than 21% in trading today after the company posted first-quarter financial results that missed expectations. NYSE-traded Avaya provides software products for business collaboration and contact center management. Like many other established players in the enterprise technology market, the company is currently working to refocus its ...
Samsung debuts new flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra smartphone and upgraded tablets
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today introduced a new iteration of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone series, as well as three upgraded Galaxy Tab tablets that feature extensive hardware improvements. Samsung’s new top-end smartphone is the Galaxy S22 Ultra, a 6.8-inch Android handset that will become available for order from $1,200. The premium price tag will ...