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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. and Nvidia Corp. all updated their respective product portfolios at CES 2022 today by introducing new chips for the consumer market. Intel’s Mobileye self-driving vehicle division also debuted its latest silicon. Mobileye detailed an upcoming chip …
Human raises $100M in funding for its bot mitigation technology
Human Security Inc., a startup that helps enterprises mitigate malicious bot traffic, has closed a $100 million funding round led by WestCap. Human announced the investment this morning. The startup said the venture capital firm NightDragon and a number of existing backers …
Google buys cybersecurity startup Siemplify for reported $500M
Google LLC today said that it has acquired venture-backed cybersecurity startup Siemplify, officially CyArx Technologies Ltd, to enhance its breach prevention capabilities. The search giant didn’t specify the deal’s financial terms in its announcement. But CTech reported that the transaction is estimated …
Apple becomes first publicly traded US company to surpass $3T valuation
Apple Inc. today became the first publicly traded U.S. company to achieve a market capitalization of $3 trillion, a feat that comes less than four years after the iPhone maker’s valuation reached $1 trillion. The iPhone maker’s latest stock market milestone follows …
Samsung debuts new smart TVs and solar-powered remote at CES
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. introduced an array of new smart TVs at CES 2022 today, as well as a remote control that generates its own electricity from sunlight and radio waves. The new TVs are joining Samsung’s Micro LED, QLED Neo and …
Twitter completes sale of MoPub mobile ad business to AppLovin for $1.05B
Twitter Inc. today announced that it has completed the sale of its MoPub mobile advertising business to AppLovin Corp. for $1.05 billion. The deal officially closed on Saturday, Jan. 1, two months after Twitter and AppLovin first announced the sale. MoPub operates a …
India’s competition regulator orders investigation of Apple’s App Store policies
India’s competition regulator today ordered an investigation into Apple Inc.’s App Store policies, which have drawn mounting antitrust scrutiny in recent years. The Competition Commission of India reportedly decided to launch the probe after tentatively determining that Apple has violated certain antitrust …
Samsung’s next mobile processor will feature AMD’s RDNA 2 chip architecture
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has revealed that the next iteration of its flagship mobile chip will use Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s RDNA 2 graphics processing unit architecture. The South Korean electronics giant disclosed its collaboration with AMD in a Thursday tweet. Samsung …
Samsung says it has quadrupled foldable device sales in 2021
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. disclosed on Wednesday that it has sold four times as many foldable devices this year as in 2020. The momentum of Samsung’s foldable device business is a potentially encouraging sign for the product category as a whole. Moreover, …
Samsung and Micron memory fabs in Xi’an affected by COVID-19 lockdown
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. said on Wednesday that operations at their memory chip production facilities in Xi’an, China, have been affected by the COVID-19 lockdown in the city. Samsung is the world’s leading maker of NAND flash chips, …