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Updated: Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is now Twitter Inc.’s largest shareholder, according to a regulatory filing published on Monday. A 13G filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed that Musk (pictured) purchased 73,486,938 shares of …
Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center vote to unionize
Workers at Amazon.com Inc.’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island have voted to form a union, the New York Times reported today. The facility is Amazon’s sole fulfillment center in New York City. With more than 8,300 workers, it’s reportedly also the …
Two teenagers charged in connection with Lapsus$ cyberattacks
Two U.K. teenagers have been charged in connection with an investigation into the Lapsus$ hacking group, the BBC reported today. The teenagers, aged 16 and 17, reportedly face multiple charges. Both face three counts of unauthorized access to a computer with intent to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …