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Report: Facebook could face UK antitrust probe within months
Officials at the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority could launch an antitrust investigation into Facebook Inc. in the coming months, the Financial Times reported today. The probe will seek to determine whether the company uses the data it collects on users’ online activity to gain an unfair advantage over competitors, according to the paper’s sources. ...
Amid cloud boom, data center firm Stack Infrastructure raises $400M debt round
Stack Infrastructure Inc., a company that leases data centers to hyperscale cloud providers and enterprises, has closed $400 million in additional securitized debt to continue growing its business. The round was announced today. It will put Stack Infrastructure in a stronger position to address demand for data center floor space from the leading cloud players, ...
Facebook is developing a neural wristband for interacting with AR glasses
Facebook Inc. is developing a smart wristband that it says could one day allow users to perform tasks such as placing e-commerce orders by making hand gestures in the air. The wristband, detailed today, is part of a broader project by the social network to create augmented reality glasses suitable for everyday use. Facebook argues ...
Secureframe lands $18M to help companies comply with cybersecurity standards
San Francisco cybersecurity startup Secureframe Inc. today said that it has raised $18 million in funding after six months of rapid growth during which its revenues increased tenfold. Kleiner Perkins led the Series A round. The venture capital firm was joined by Gradient Ventures, a Google LLC fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups, and ...
Google says it will spend $7B+ on US data centers and offices in 2021
Google LLC Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai revealed in a blog post today that the search giant will spend more than $7 billion on expanding its U.S. data center and office footprint this year. Google is planning to expand its data centers in Virginia, Nebraska and Nevada as part of the investment. Two of the ...
Microsoft is making Azure more resilient with new availability zones
Microsoft Corp. today said that it will deploy availability zones in all the regions where it maintains cloud data centers to provide Azure customers with increased protection against outages. The rollout, Microsoft Azure Vice President Pradeep Nair detailed in a blog post today, is expected to be completed by year’s end. The data center infrastructure ...
Expanding healthcare focus, Amazon will offer Amazon Care to other companies
Amazon.com Inc. will make its Amazon Care healthcare service available for other firms so they can offer it to their workers, the online retail giant announced today. Amazon first introduced the service 18 months ago as an internal employee benefit. At launch, it allowed the company’s employees in Washington to access virtual care and schedule ...
Google starts sharing more detailed data on its cloud’s carbon footprint
Google LLC today began publicly sharing information about the carbon emissions of its cloud data centers, a step that the search giant hopes will help Google Cloud customers reduce their own environmental footprints. Google recently set a goal of powering its entire operations with carbon-free energy 24 hours a day by 2030. Currently, however, its ...
AMD adds seven-nanometer Ryzen Pro 5000 processors for business laptops
Following up its introduction of new server chips on Monday, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted a trio of central processing units for business laptops under the Ryzen Pro 5000 brand. Like the latest additions to AMD’s server portfolio, the Ryzen Pro 5000 series is based on its seven-nanometer Zen 3 core design. The top-end ...
After adding 1.8M users in a year, Docker raises $23M funding round
Software container company Docker Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $23 million in funding to build new features for the more than 7 million developers who use its tools. The company says it has added close to 2 million users over the last year alone. Palo Alto, California-based Docker is the inventor of modern ...