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Microsoft adds new cloud instances and security features to Azure
Microsoft Corp. today added a family of memory-optimized instances to its Azure public cloud, along with new features designed to help customers manage and secure their environments. The additions were announced at the company’s virtual Ignite event. The newly added Msv2 instance family is geared toward running memory-intensive workloads such as SAP SE’s HANA in-memory ...
Revenue analytics startup Clari closes $150M in funding at $1.6B valuation
Clari Inc., a startup that helps some of the biggest names in enterprise software forecast their revenues, has closed a $150 million funding round led by Silver Lake. Announced today, the funding round follows a $60 million investment raised by the startup in 2019. Clari is now worth at $1.6 billion. Sunnyvale, California-based Clari provides ...
To boost online privacy, Google will move away from user-level identifiers on websites
Google LLC today said that, as part of a plan to make the web more private, it will not use so-called user-level identifiers to collect information on consumers’ website browsing habits. The move comes as other tech giants such as Apple Inc. also expand their focus on privacy. The background for today’s announcement is Google’s previously disclosed ...
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 ...