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Replit Inc., the creator of a popular browser-based coding platform with more than 10 million users worldwide, on Thursday announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round. Prominent technology investment firm Coatue led the Series B round. San Francisco-based Replit …
Tiger Global leads $30M round for AI reliability startup Robust Intelligence
Robust Intelligence Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $30 million in funding to enhance its namesake software platform, which promises to help companies find and fix issues in their neural networks faster. Tiger Global led the round. Sequoia, Harpoon Venture Capital …
Google Cloud and Kyndryl ink strategic cloud partnership
Google LLC’s cloud unit and Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former managed infrastructure services division of IBM Corp., have inked a partnership to support joint customers’ digital transformation projects. Announced today, the partnership places an emphasis on helping enterprises with use cases such …
Italy’s competition regulator fines Amazon $1.27B over business practices
The Italian Competition Authority today issued a fine of €1.128 billion, or about $1.27 billion, to Amazon.com Inc. after finding that some of the company’s business practices harmed rivals. The Italian Competition Authority, or AGCM, has also ordered Amazon to implement a …
Meta’s AI unit details new machine learning system for detecting harmful content
The artificial intelligence unit of Meta Platforms Inc., previously Facebook Inc., today detailed a new machine learning system that will help the company combat harmful content across its social media platforms. The system is known as Few-Shot Learner, or FSL for short. …
New $270M funding round values enterprise fintech startup Tipalti at $8.3B
Startup Tipalti Inc., which helps companies complete common accounting tasks faster, is now one of the world’s most valuable financial technology startups thanks to a newly closed $270 million funding round that values it at $8.3 billion. The funding round, announced today, …
Report: Some iOS apps continue collecting user-level signals for ad targeting
A number of iOS app developers, including Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc., reportedly continue to collect user-level signals from iPhones despite Apple Inc.’s recent introduction of features designed to boost privacy. The Financial Times reported the practice today. According to the …
AWS outage causes disruptions across popular online services
Updated: An outage in one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center clusters is causing disruptions across a large number of popular online services, including financial apps, food delivery platforms and others. The outage is the result of a malfunction in some …
Market research startup YipitData raises late-stage funding round worth up to $475M
Market research startup YipitData Inc. on Monday announced that it has secured a late-stage funding round set to be worth as much as $475 million. The impressive funding round has led to considerable speculation about YipitData’s valuation, with industry insiders suggesting that …
Permira to take email security provider Mimecast private in $5.8B deal
Private equity firm Permira is buying Nasdaq-traded cybersecurity company Mimecast Ltd. in an acquisition worth approximately $5.8 billion. The transaction was announced this morning but was reported some time ago: Word first emerged that Mimecast was exploring a sale in late October. …