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Arm debuts its fastest CPUs to date for mobile and ‘internet of things’ devices
Arm Holdings Ltd., the chip designer whose semiconductor blueprints power most smartphones along with countless other devices, today introduced a new generation of central processing units and related components under the Total Compute brand. Total Compute silicon is designed for use in so-called client devices. The term encompasses most of everything from smart home appliances ...
Veeam previews new cloud-native features as it sets sights on market leadership
Veeam Software Inc. kicked off its virtual VeeamOn 2021 event today by previewing a slew of upcoming features for protecting data across Kubernetes clusters, public cloud environments and software-as-a-service applications. The cloud-centric feature lineup will roll out in the second half of 2021. The new capabilities are part of a plan, outlined by Veeam executives ...
AI-powered logistics software startup FarEye lands $100M investment
FarEye Inc., whose machine learning-powered logistics platform helps companies such as UPS Inc. process more than 100 million transactions a month, has raised $100 million in funding through a new funding round announced today. TCV and Dragoneer Investment Group jointly led the Series E round. It’s not the first time the investment firms have teamed ...
Facebook debuts Dynaboard and Dynascore to advance AI research
Facebook Inc. today detailed Dynaboard and Dynascore, two new innovations developed by its artificial intelligence group that aim to help computer scientists build better machine learning models. Dynaboard and Dynascore are implemented as components of Dynabench, a tool for AI researchers that Facebook open-sourced last year. The technologies are aimed at streamlining a task that ...
Invoca buys contact center AI startup DialogTech for reported $100M
Invoca Inc., a well-funded provider of contact center analytics software backed by Accel, has acquired another startup in the contact center analytics market called DialogTech Inc. for a reported $100 million. Invoca announced the acquisition today without disclosing the deal size. The transaction’s $100 million price tag was reported by TechCrunch. Invoca makes artificial intelligence ...
Esper raises $30M to ease the management of Android-powered IoT fleets
Esper Enterprises Inc., a startup developing technology for managing “internet of things” device fleets powered by Android, disclosed on Thursday that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Android, though best known as a mobile operating system, is also used in a large variety of other hardware. It can ...
Snap acquires AR optical parts maker WaveOptics for reported $500M+
Snapchat operator Snap Inc. is spending more than $500 million to acquire Wave Optics Ltd., better known as WaveOptics, a U.K.-based maker of displays and other optical components for augmented reality glasses. The deal was reported by The Verge this morning. According to the publication’s sources, Snap will pay half the acquisition price upfront and ...
Intel and Dell back $90M round for data access security specialist Immuta
Data security startup Immuta Inc. has raised $90 million from a large group of investors that included the venture capital arms of Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp., it was announced today. Immuta provides a software platform that helps companies prevent unauthorized access to their data. Traditionally, data access rules have often had to be ...
Google reveals plans for first physical store in new consumer hardware push
Google LLC today revealed plans to open a retail location in New York, its first-ever physical store, where visitors will have the opportunity to test and purchase devices from the search giant’s consumer hardware lineup. Google’s inaugural Google Store (pictured) is being set up in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, home to many of the ...
Demand Science acquires TrustedOut as it advances toward $100M in revenue
Demand Science Inc. has acquired TrustedOut SAS, a French startup with an artificial intelligence platform that helps companies monitor market developments and plan advertising campaigns. The company announced the deal today. It’s the fifth acquisition in seven months for Danvers, Massachusetts-based Demand Science, which provides sales tools aimed at enterprise technology companies and other firms. ...