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Blues Wireless, led by Microsoft’s former top software architect Ray Ozzie, raises $22M
Blues Wireless Inc., an “internet of things” chip startup founded by Microsoft’s former top software engineer Ray Ozzie, today announced that it has closed a $22 million funding round. Sequoia Capital and angel investor Lachy Groom jointly led the round. The investment also included the participation of XYZ Venture Capital and returning Blues Wireless backer ...
Cloud security startup Netskope raises $300M at $7.5B valuation
Netskope Inc., a startup that helps about a third of the companies on the Fortune 100 list secure their network traffic, has received a $300 million late-stage funding round valuing it at $7.5 billion. Iconiq Growth was the lead investor in the Series H round, which Netskope announced this morning. A number of existing backers ...
Biden to sign executive order that will increase scrutiny of tech giants
President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order today that will call for the implementation of 72 initiatives across more than a dozen government agencies to increase competition in the U.S. economy. Several of the initiatives focus on limiting the ability of tech giants to engage in business practices that can harm rivals ...
Coda raises $100M at $1.4B valuation to unify documents and spreadsheets
Coda Project Inc. has closed a late-stage $100 million funding round at a $1.4 billion valuation to grow the number of companies using its cloud-based document editor, which combines the features of a word processor and a spreadsheet editor in a single interface. The Series D round was announced this morning. It was led by ...
Report: Google set to acquire Japan’s Pring for $180M+ to boost fintech business
Google LLC is in talks to acquire Tokyo-based payment app provider Pring for $180 million to $270 million, Nikkei Asia reported today. The news comes as the search giant prepares to expand its presence in the U.S. financial technology market by launching a new digital banking platform for consumers. Google’s reported acquisition talks with Pring ...
IBM buys container consultancy BoxBoat to advance OpenShift hybrid cloud strategy
IBM Corp. today announced that it has inked a deal to acquire BoxBoat Technologies Inc., a Maryland-based consultancy focused on helping Fortune 100 companies and government agencies adopt software containers. IBM expects the deal to accelerate adoption of its OpenShift platform. OpenShift, which the company obtained through its $34 billion purchase of Red Hat, is ...
Nvidia launches $100M Cambridge-1 supercomputer to support healthcare research
Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday announced the launch of Cambridge-1, a supercomputer it has built in the U.K. at an estimated cost of $100 million to support life sciences research. Nvidia says that the supercomputer is the fastest deployed in the U.K. to date. “Cambridge-1 will empower world-leading researchers in business and academia with the ability ...
Intel leads $9.5M round for secure analytics startup Opaque Systems
Intel Corp. has led a $9.5 million seed round for Opaque Systems Inc., a startup founded by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley that’s using so-called hardware enclaves to help companies process their data more securely. Opaque Systems disclosed the funding this morning. The startup said Intel, which led the round through its ...
Silk raises $55M to optimize enterprises’ cloud databases
Cloud database specialist Silk Inc. today announced that it has secured a $55 million funding round led by S Capital with participation from Sequoia Capital and more than a half-dozen institutional investors. Silk will use the new $55 million Series B round to step up its sales, marketing and engineering activities. Needham, Massachusetts-based Silk provides ...
Google and AT&T debut new 5G-enabled edge computing solutions
Google LLC and AT&T Inc. today introduced two new edge computing solutions aimed at making it easier for enterprises to pursue emerging technology use cases such as deploying robots in retail stores. The solutions were developed as part of a partnership that the companies inked last year. The first new offering is AT&T MEC with ...