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Muon Space raises $10M to build a climate-focused satellite constellation
Muon Space Inc., a new satellite startup that counts Google LLC as an early customer, today announced that it has raised $10 million in seed funding from a group of investors led by Costanoa Ventures. Mountain View, California-based Muon Space is looking to build satellites for studying climate change. The startup’s founding team includes former ...
Space company Satellogic expands AWS partnership as it scales up satellite network
Satellogic, a commercial satellite operator set to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. that will help support its growth efforts. Satellogic, incorporated as Nettar Group Inc., provides Earth imagery data to customers. The startup collects data using a network of 17 compact satellites ...
Former IBM Senior Vice President Robert Picciano joins CognitiveScale as CEO
Venture-backed artificial intelligence startup CognitiveScale Inc. today announced that Robert Picciano, a former IBM Corp. senior vice president, is joining as chief executive officer. Picciano headed IBM’s Cognitive Systems business unit until his departure from the company in 2020. The Cognitive Systems unit is responsible for, among other product lines, the Power Systems family of ...
Quantum expands data storage portfolio with new offerings
Data storage company Quantum Corp. today introduced two new solutions that it says will enable organizations to store archived information up to 80% more cost-efficiently than before. Publicly traded Quantum is a major supplier of data center storage equipment. For about 20 years, the San Jose, California-based company ranked as one of the industry’s top ...
Following $1B funding round, Celonis buys data streaming startup Lenses.io
A few months after raising $1 billion from investors, Celonis GmbH today announced that it’s acquiring venture-backed startup Lenses.io Ltd. for its data streaming technology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alongside the acquisition, Celonis announced a new tool dubbed Celonis Execution Graph that promises to help companies identify inefficiencies in their operations. New ...
Nvidia joins $100M funding round for MLOps startup Domino Data Lab
Artificial intelligence startup Domino Data Lab Inc. today disclosed that it has nabbed a $100 million investment from Great Hill Partners, Nvidia Corp. and existing backers. San Francisco-based Domino Data Labs said that it will work more closely with Nvidia following the funding round. The companies will team up to integrate more of their products ...
Hours-long outage renders Facebook’s platforms inaccessible for users
Updated: All of Facebook Inc.’s social media platforms became inaccessible for users starting about 11:45 a.m. EDT today as a result of a yet-unexplained outage. The hours-long outage affected Facebook’s namesake social network, as well as Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Users have reportedly encountered multiple types of error messages across the services, including “Sorry, something ...
Qualcomm and SSW Partners acquire smart car tech firm Veoneer for $4.5B
Qualcomm Inc. has teamed up with investment firm SSW Partners to acquire Stockholm-based smart car technology supplier Veoneer Inc. in a deal worth $4.6 billion. The all-cash transaction, announced today, advances Qualcomm’s effort to establish a bigger presence in the auto market. According to the chipmaker, the deal values Veoneer at a hefty 86% premium ...
One Identity acquires OneLogin to expand its cybersecurity portfolio
One Identity LLC today announced that it has acquired OneLogin Inc., a provider of identity and access management software backed by more than $175 million in funding. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. One Identity is a unit of Quest Software Inc., a former subsidiary of Dell Technologies Inc. that spun off into an ...
Esper raises $60M to help companies build and run Android-powered IoT fleets
Months after its previous funding round, “internet of things” startup Esper Enterprises Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $60 million from an investor group led by Insight Partners. Seattle-based Esper provides a platform that makes Android-powered IoT fleets easier to build and maintain. Android, best known as a mobile operating system, can ...