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In first acquisition, Airtable buys no-code data visualization startup Bayes
Airtable Inc., the $5.77 billion startup behind the popular productivity platform of the same name, today announced that it has bought data visualization specialist Bayes Technologies Inc. in its first acquisition since its launch. The deal’s financial terms were not made public. Bayes, which founded in 2019, has raised an unspecified amount of funding from ...
ServiceNow buys indoor mapping specialist Mapwize
ServiceNow Inc. is acquiring Mapwize, a company based in Lille, France, with a software platform that helps employees of large enterprises navigate the office more easily. ServiceNow announced the transaction today. The company expects to complete the deal by the end of the current quarter and plans to relaunch Mapwize’s software as a component of ...
New Samsung foldables: Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3 make their debut at Unpacked 2021
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted two new foldable Android devices at its Unpacked product event: the flip phone-inspired Galaxy Z Flip 3 and the Galaxy Z Fold 3, a small tablet that uses a hinge to turn into a smartphone. Both devices are built from new materials, including a patented aluminum alloy, that Samsung ...
OpenAI’s new Codex neural network writes software in response to text prompts
OpenAI LLC today launched the private beta program for an artificial intelligence system dubbed Codex that can write software and perform data science tasks in response to natural-language prompts. Codex will be available to participants of the private beta program through an application programming interface. The API will enable participants to build their own custom ...
Report: NSA awards $10B cloud computing contract to AWS
The National Security Agency has awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services Inc., Nextgov reported today. The publication also reported that the decision to grant the deal to AWS has been challenged by Microsoft Corp., the Amazon.com Inc. unit’s top competitor in the cloud market. Microsoft is said to have recently ...
Investors value OwnBackup at $3.35B in new $240M funding round
A group of investors led by Alkeon Capital and B Capital Group has bought a $240 million stake in data protection startup OwnBackup Inc. at a $3.35 billion valuation, $2 billion more than it was worth six months ago. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey-based OwnBackup announced the funding round this morning. The company says one of ...
Deliveroo tells investors rival Delivery Hero has bought 5% of its shares
Food delivery provider Deliveroo PLC has notified investors that one of its main rivals, Delivery Hero SE, had acquired 5.09% of its outstanding shares. CNBC reported the news this morning. Deliver Hero’s investment, which is estimated to be worth about $400 million, sent shares of Deliveroo soaring about 10% at one point to their highest ...
Avaya acquires CTIntegrations to accelerate its shift to the cloud
Communications software maker Avaya Holdings Corp. has acquired CTIntegrations LLC to expand the capabilities of its OneCloud product suite, which stands at the center of the company’s plan to move to a cloud-centric business model. Avaya announced the deal today in conjunction with the release of its third-quarter earnings report. The company slightly surpassed analyst ...
Snorkel AI raises $85M at $1B valuation to create AI training datasets automatically
Stanford University spinoff Snorkel AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $85 million in funding to continue commercializing its namesake software tool, which is used by companies such as Apple Inc. and Google LLC to speed up their machine learning projects. The funding round values Snorkel AI at $1 billion. Google’s GV venture capital ...
Report: Google planning new San Jose campus with up to 3,500 workers
Google LLC is looking to build a new campus in San Jose, California dubbed “Midpoint” that will accommodate up to 3,500 staffers, according to a report in CNBC today. Citing planning documents, CNBC reported that the search giant is also planning a second corporate hub next to Midpoint to house parts of its hardware development ...