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Google LLC today updated its Google Workspace productivity suite with new features that will enable users to create more sophisticated documents and navigate large volumes of text faster. Most of the enhancements are rolling out to Google Docs, the document editor included …
Media content management startup Cloudinary valued at $2B in $100M+ secondary sale
Cloudinary Ltd., a startup that helps brands manage their media content and ensure it loads quickly for users, has secured a more than $100 million secondary investment from Blackstone Growth. The investment, announced today, values Cloudinary at $2 billion. The deal comes …
AMD closes landmark $50B acquisition of chipmaker Xilinx
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has closed its acquisition of programmable chipmaker Xilinx Inc., the company said today. AMD first announced plans to buy Xilinx in October 2020 through an all-stock transaction originally valued at $35 billion. According to Reuters, the deal’s value …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …