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Celestial AI Inc., a startup developing photonics technology for artificial intelligence applications, has raised $56 million in funding to support its engineering efforts. Sunnyvale, California-based Celestial AI announced the investment this morning. Koch Disruptive Technologies led the investment with participation from Temasek’s …
Senate Judiciary Committee approves app store antitrust bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the Open App Markets Act, a bipartisan antitrust bill that would require Apple Inc. and Google LLC to change how they operate their app stores. The Open App Markets Act was originally introduced in the Senate …
AWS becomes Best Buy’s preferred cloud provider
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. has named Amazon Web Services Inc. as its preferred cloud provider, the companies announced this morning. Publicly traded Best Buy is a major consumer electronics retailer with more than 1,000 stores and annual revenue that …
Microsoft reportedly scraps upcoming HoloLens 3 mixed-reality headset
Microsoft Corp. has scrapped plans to develop a new version of its HoloLens 2 mixed-reality headset, Insider reported on Wednesday. Sources told the publication that the project was scrapped in the middle of last year. Around the same time, Microsoft is said …
Managed data lakehouse startup Onehouse launches with $8M in funding
Onehouse, a new data lakehouse startup, today launched from stealth mode after raising a $8 million seed funding round co-led by Greylock and Addition. A lakehouse is a new type of software solution that helps enterprises more efficiently extract insights from their …
Dynatrace tops quarterly revenue and earnings expectations, but stock tumbles
Shares of Dynatrace Inc. dropped more than 19% today after the company posted third-quarter financial results, even though both its earnings and revenue surpassed analysts’ expectations. NYSE-traded Dynatrace provides an observability platform that enterprises use to detect and fix technical issues in …
Pecan AI nabs $66M to simplify AI development in the enterprise
Artificial intelligence startup Pecan AI Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $66 million funding round led by Insight Partners. S-Capital, GGV, Dell Technologies Inc.’s venture capital arm, Mindset Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners participated in the Series C round as …
GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit raises $1.35B from SoftBank
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit of General Motors Co., today announced that it has raised $1.35 billion in funding from SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. The funding is part of a $2.25 billion investment that SoftBank originally announced in 2018. Cruise received …
Chargebee raises $250M at $3.5B valuation for its subscription management platform
Startup Chargebee Inc. is now worth $3.5 billion, more than double the valuation it received last April, after closing a $250 million funding round led by Tiger Global and Sequoia. Chargebee said in its announcement of the investment today that a number …
Google and Microsoft back new industry initiative to fix open-source vulnerabilities
The Open Source Security Foundation, an industry group backed by some of the world’s largest tech firms, today launched a new initiative focused on finding and fixing vulnerabilities in open-source software. The initiative is known as the Alpha-Omega Project. It’s launching following …