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Lyft, Microsoft, Airbnb and others launch the Mobile Native Foundation
A group of leading tech firms has teamed up to launch the Mobile Native Foundation, a new industry group dedicated to encouraging the creation of open-source developer tools for building mobile apps. The Mobile Native Foundation was announced today by the Linux Foundation, which is hosting the initiative. The group’s founding members feature some of ...
Microsoft introduces Mesh to enable more immersive mixed-reality apps
Microsoft Corp. today introduced Microsoft Mesh, a service that will allow users to create avatars and project them into virtual environments such as ocean floor simulations. The service is aimed at developers, who the tech giant says can harness it to build more immersive mixed-reality applications. Under the hood, Microsoft Mesh runs on Microsoft’s Azure ...
New $265M round lifts Instacart’s valuation to $39B
Grocery delivery giant Instacart Inc. announced today it has closed a $265 million funding round at a $39 billion valuation, which means the startup is now valued at twice what it was worth last October after a previous capital raise. The extra $265 million in funding, which was provided by a group of existing investors, will help ...
Google rolls out ‘first of its kind’ cyber insurance program for cloud customers
Google LLC has teamed up with two major insurers to develop a cybersecurity insurance offering that will provide Google Cloud customers who sign up with coverage against cyberattacks. The offering, detailed today, is described by the search giant as the first of its kind from a leading cloud provider. On top of coverage against data ...
Google Workspace gets new Frontline Edition and time management tools
Google LLC today introduced a new edition of its Google Workspace productivity suite aimed at frontline workers, along with a set of time management tools and enhancements to several existing products in the bundle. Workspace Frontline, as the new edition is called, will roll out over the coming weeks. Google put together the offering to ...
IBM launches Cloud Satellite to target expanding edge computing market
IBM Corp. today announced the general availability of IBM Cloud Satellite, a software platform that enables enterprises to deploy services from its public cloud in their on-premises data centers. Customers can run Cloud Satellite on commodity servers in their data centers or at edge locations such as factories. For hybrid cloud use cases, the software ...
Autonomous vehicle unicorn Aurora buys lidar chip startup Ours Technology
Heavily funded autonomous vehicle startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has acquired Ours Technology Inc., a fellow startup developing chip-based lidar sensors based on a new approach known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave sensing. The deal was announced today. The companies didn’t share the transaction’s financial terms. Aurora is building an autonomous driving system that can be installed on ...
Atlassian moves into business intelligence with acquisition of Chartio
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today said that it has acquired Chartio Inc., a San Francisco-based business intelligence startup backed by investors such as Y Combinator. Publicly traded Atlassian is the company behind the popular Jira family of work management tools, which are used by teams in areas such as software development to coordinate their activities. The ...
AWS criticized over how it shared information on SolarWinds hack
Amazon Web Services Inc. is under fire for not publicly sharing information at a congressional hearing this week about the SolarWinds hacking campaign, though it did say it shared details in private briefings with lawmakers and law enforcement. AWS was one of the cloud providers whose platforms hackers are believed to have used to carry ...
Microsoft debuts three new industry-specific cloud bundles
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out three new vertical-specific cloud service bundles aimed at organizations in the financial, manufacturing and nonprofit sectors. Microsoft is sharpening its focus on vertical markets in a time when its top public cloud rivals such as Google LLC and IBM Corp. are pursuing similar strategies. The company’s new offerings, which debuted on ...