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Alphabet’s X lab reveals project to develop technology for power grids
Alphabet Inc.’s X moonshot unit is working on a project to develop tools that can help utilities monitor and predict activity on their power grids. The project was announced this morning by X Vice President Audrey Zibelman during remarks at the White House Leaders Summit on Climate. Zibelman joined the Alphabet unit earlier this year ...
Google upgrades Cloud Spanner’s encryption capabilities
Google LLC’s Cloud Spanner managed relational database now allows companies to encrypt their information using their own encryption keys, the search giant announced today. It’s a narrow but significant update because organizations in regulated industries such as finance and healthcare are often legally required to manage encryption keys internally. By providing that option, Google can ...
Productboard raises $72M to help developers turn user feedback into new features
Product management startup Productboard Inc. today revealed that it has landed a $72 million funding round led by Tiger Global. The investment firm was joined in the Series C round by several of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms: Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. All four are returning Productboard ...
New details emerge about Apple’s upcoming iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 releases
New information has emerged about the feature additions that will arrive with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the next releases of Apple Inc.’s smartphone and tablet operating systems, respectively. Some of the new features will become available on both platforms, according to Bloomberg, which detailed the enhancements in a report today. Others will roll out only ...
TigerGraph launches its managed graph database on Google Cloud
TigerGraph Inc. has launched its managed graph database on Google Cloud, enabling customers of the search giant’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform to use the software in their analytics projects. The Redwood City, California-based startup said today that the offering is now the first distributed graph database-as-a-service offering to work across all three major public clouds. TigerGraph, which ...
API marketplace RapidAPI raises $60M in funding to expand developer features
RapidAPI Inc., a startup that helps developers find cloud services useful for their software projects, announced today that it has closed a $60 million round of funding to continue its recent growth streak. Developers increasingly don’t build applications from scratch but rather create them from a combination of custom code and external components. Many of ...
EU releases sweeping draft legislation for regulating AI
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, today proposed new legislation that would place stringent restrictions on how artificial intelligence can be used, as well as subject companies caught violating the regulation to potentially hefty fines. “With these landmark rules, the EU is spearheading the development of new global norms to make sure AI ...
After revenue jump, ActiveCampaign raises $240M at $3B+ valuation
ActiveCampaign Inc., a Chicago-based software company that helps brands make their marketing operations more automated, has raised $240 million in fresh funding at a valuation north of $3 billion. The investment, announced this morning, was led by prominent tech investor Tiger Global. The capital injection will enable ActiveCampaign to double down on the rapid sales ...
Era Software nabs $15M to deliver AI-supported data management
Seattle startup Era Software Inc. today said that it has secured a $15.25 million funding round to develop data management technology for large-scale enterprise applications. Era has built a database, EraDB, that it says is specifically geared toward powering “hyperscale” cloud-native workloads. The platform uses artificial intelligence to automate some of the tasks involved in ...
Report: Microsoft is sharing Azure energy usage data with some cloud customers
Microsoft Corp. has started sharing information about the electricity usage of Azure cloud regions with some customers, who it hopes will use the data to lower the carbon footprint of their Azure deployments. The news comes weeks after a similar move by Google LLC, one of Microsoft’s top rivals in the cloud market. Microsoft’s decision ...