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TSMC to invest $100B to scale up chip manufacturing and development through 2023
Amid a global chip shortage, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced plans to invest $100 billion over three years to expand its production capacity. TSMC detailed the plan in a letter to clients that was obtained by Bloomberg late Wednesday. According to the letter, TSMC, the world’s leading maker of chips for other companies, ...
Kintent raises $4M seed round to simplify cybersecurity compliance with AI
Kintent Inc., a startup helping companies comply with cybersecurity standards such as HIPAA, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round led by Tola Capital. The venture capital firm was joined by several prominent angel investors. They included Microsoft Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander, Jen Andre, the vice president of ...
Google and Amazon to start reopening offices to more staffers
Google LLC and Amazon.com Inc. will allow staffers to return to the office in larger numbers over the coming months, the two companies told employees on Wednesday. Google Chief People Officer Fiona Cicconi detailed in a memo obtained by The New York Times that the search giant’s U.S. facilities will begin reopening this month. Exactly ...
In $9.5B deal, Hitachi to acquire software engineering firm GlobalLogic
Japanese industrial giant Hitachi Ltd. has signed a $9.5 billion agreement to acquire GlobalLogic Inc., a California-based software engineering firm that develops applications for large enterprises. The deal, announced today, is expected to close by the end of July. Tokyo-based Hitachi is a major player in the industrial sector that makes products ranging from auto ...
AWS’ newest partner validations boost mainframe-to-cloud migrations
Amazon Web Services Inc. today expanded its AWS Competency Program to make it easier for enterprises to find partner firms that can help them migrate mainframe applications to the cloud. More than half a century after IBM Corp. launched the world’s first commercial mainframe, systems in the category continue to see active use at many ...
Google begins testing FLoC third-party cookie alternative with Chrome trial
Google LLC is kicking off public tests of FLoC, a machine learning technology intended to provide a more privacy-friendly alternative to the third-party cookies used by online advertisers. The technology, which stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts, is rolling out as a Chrome update to a small subset of the browser’s users, the search giant ...
Google launches its serverless Database Migration Service into general availability
Google LLC today launched its Database Migration Service into general availability, four months after introducing the serverless tool in preview to help companies move business applications to its public cloud. The offering will enable the search giant to provide more effective support to organizations modernizing on-premises workloads. It should make switching to the Google Cloud ...
Data integration startup Striim lands $50M round backed by Goldman Sachs and Dell
Startup Striim Inc. has raised a $50 million funding round to grow its market share in the data management segment, where it competes with a software platform that moves business information from enterprises’ on-premise systems to the cloud. Announced this morning, the Series C round was led by Goldman Sachs’s growth equity arm. The venture ...
Apple to kick off virtual WWDC21 developer event on June 7
Apple Inc. today revealed that WWDC21, the next installment of its annual technical event for iOS and Mac developers, will take place online June 7-11. Apple’s WWDC, or Worldwide Developers Conference, event series draws significant attention because it’s often where the company announces new releases of its operating systems. The iPhone maker said five different ...
Cohesity’s valuation jumps to $3.7B with $145M equity sale
Institutional investors have offered to purchase some of the equity that Cohesity Inc. employees hold in the data management provider at a valuation of $3.7 billion, $1.2 billion more than what the company worth last year. The investors participating in the tender offer include Steadfast Capital Ventures, DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Wing Venture Capital and ...