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Amazon is now the top corporate buyer of renewable energy in Europe
Amazon.com Inc. today revealed that it’s investing in nine large-scale wind and solar energy generation projects globally to advance its goal of switching entirely to green power by 2025. The installations are located in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. Thanks to the last three investments, Amazon says, it’s now the single largest ...
Google shares technical overview of its exabyte-scale Colossus file system
Google LLC today published a technical blog post detailing Colossus, the internal file system that powers Google Cloud and many of the company’s consumer services, including its namesake search engine. Colossus is a software platform responsible for managing the storage hardware running in the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary’s data centers. It also helps move information in ...
UK opens probe of $40B Nvidia-Arm deal to probe national security implications
The U.K. will look into Nvidia Corp.’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm Ltd. to determine if the deal could potentially pose national security issues. The probe was announced today following a public interest intervention notice from U.K. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. “We want to support our thriving U.K. tech industry and ...
Druva raises $147M at $2B+ valuation as cloud backup market keeps growing
Druva Inc., a major player in the growing cloud-based data protection market, has closed a $147 million funding round at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. The company, which first achieved unicorn status in 2019, announced the new financing today. Canadian investment firm CDPQ led the round. It was joined by Neuberger Berman as well as ...
Browser makers hesitant about FLoC, Google’s ad cookie replacement
Multiple browser makers, including the Mozilla Foundation, have indicated that they don’t currently plan to adopt Google LLC’s FLoC privacy system. FLoC, which stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts, is intended as a replacement to the third-party cookies that online advertisers use to deliver personalized promotions. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, said that it has ...
Australian court finds Google misled Android users about location data settings
Google LLC misled Android users about how to disable the operating system’s location data collection settings, the Australian Federal Court ruled today. Regulators reportedly expect that the decision could lead to a fine in the “many millions” of dollars for the search giant. Google, meanwhile, said it might appeal, pointing out that the Federal Court’s ...
In latest automation acquisition, IBM to buy process mining provider myInvenio
IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire Italian software maker myInvenio Srl, which provides an analytics platform that helps enterprises determine how to best apply technologies such as robotic process automation in their operations. The deal’s value was not disclosed. IBM expects it to close by the end of the quarter. Enterprises are applying RPA ...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Russia over election interference, SolarWinds hack
President Joe Biden today signed an executive order that imposes sweeping sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2020 presidential election, carrying out the SolarWinds hacking campaign and other actions. As part of the move, the U.S. Treasury Department has hit 32 entities and individuals with sanctions over their roles in the efforts of the ...
In final shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos pledges better employee care, lower carbon emissions
In his final letter to Amazon.com Inc. shareholders as chief executive, Jeff Bezos today outlined a vision that focuses on enhancing employee care while reducing carbon emissions. Bezos has penned an annual letter to Amazon shareholders every year since the company went public in 1997. This year’s memo will be the executive’s last before Andy ...
AWS launches Aqua to enable faster Amazon Redshift queries
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Aqua, a technology that uses custom chips designed by the cloud giant to help organizations run analytics queries faster on Amazon Redshift. AWS says that Aqua will enable customers to perform some data operations up to 10 times faster than competing platforms. Amazon Redshift is ...