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In unusual move, Justice Department asks Congress to limit Section 230 protections for tech firms
The U.S. Justice Department today sent Congress draft legislation intended to limit the scope of Section 230, a legal shield that gives online platforms immunity against certain types of lawsuits. Section 230 is a statute in the Communications Decency Act that protects companies such as Facebook Inc. from being held legally liable for user content. ...
Arm’s new Neoverse server chips deliver up to 50% speed boost
Arm Ltd., the influential chip design firm Nvidia Corp. has proposed to acquire for $40 billion, on Tuesday detailed two chip designs for the server market that promise to deliver a big jump in performance. U.K.-based Arm’s semiconductor blueprints form the basis of the processors inside most of the world’s smartphones and countless other devices. Over recent ...
Google brings its Flutter interface framework to Windows
Google LLC today announced that its Flutter framework for building user interfaces now supports Windows, enabling developers to bring their Flutter-based applications to the more than 1 billion devices running Microsoft’s operating system. Flutter is an open-source framework created by Google that enables developers to craft interfaces for their applications more quickly. It saves time by ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Orbital to power satellite downlinks for space sector clients
Microsoft Corp. is building a global network of antennas co-located with its cloud data centers that will enable satellite operators to download data from orbit more easily. The antennas, or ground stations, will become available on-demand via a new service called Azure Orbital, which debuted today at Microsoft’s virtual Ignite event. The service puts it on ...
Google launches Tables to capture growing market for project tracking tools
Google LLC today announced the beta launch of Tables, an experimental project tracking service that could create more competition for category leaders such Asana, Airtable and Trello. The service is the brainchild of Area120, a unit inside the search giant responsible for testing new product ideas. Tables allows workers to organize all the tasks related to ...
PagerDuty buys Rundeck for $100M to boost its product and go-to-market strategy
PagerDuty Inc. today said that it will spend about $100 million to acquire Rundeck Inc., the maker of a popular software tool for troubleshooting technical issues in information technology systems. The deal, announced as PagerDuty holds its annual conference virtually today and tomorrow, is a big exit for San Francisco-based Rundeck. It had raised only $3 ...
Trump signals ByteDance must offload TikTok stake or deal won’t be approved
The effort to reach a deal that would salvage the U.S. operations of TikTok took another turn today after President Donald Trump signaled a deal would be approved only if TikTok parent’s company, ByteDance Ltd., offloaded its entire stake in the app. TikTok is a popular video sharing app with about 100 million users across ...
Trump OKs deal for Oracle and Walmart to operate TikTok in US
President Trump said Saturday that he has agreed at least in concept to a deal for video-sharing app TikTok on a partnership with Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. to become a U.S.-based company, appearing to end a long series of negotiations. “I have given the deal my blessing, if they get it done that’s OK ...
Mobile banking startup Chime lands $485M mega-round at $14.5B valuation
Chime Financial Inc. today became the most valuable financial technology startup in the U.S. after announcing that it has closed a $485 million round at a $14.5 billion valuation. The investment is the third raised by the startup in six months. Chime is now worth about nine times as much as it was in March, ...
Ericsson snaps up Cradlepoint for $1.1B to bring 5G to the enterprise
Ericsson, one of the world’s top suppliers of telecommunications equipment, today said that it’s buying enterprise networking firm Cradlepoint Inc. in a $1.1 billion deal that’s expected to close before year’s end. Sweden-based Ericsson makes base stations and related technologies that carriers use as the building blocks of their wireless networks. Boise, Idaho-based Cradlepoint, in turn, ...