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Alphabet’s Verily life sciences unit raises $700M more
Verily, the Google LLC sister company focused on life sciences, has raised an additional $700 million from parent Alphabet Inc. and external investors. Announced Thursday, the raise follows a $1 billion round in 2019. Verily plans to use the new funds to advance a number of life sciences programs it’s currently pursuing in the areas ...
Morpheus Data eases hybrid cloud security and management with new release
Hybrid cloud management provider Morpheus Data LLC has released new tools for finding software vulnerabilities in enterprise networks and automating common maintenance tasks. The additions are rolling with version 5.2 of the company’s namesake software platform, which made its debut today. Morpheus Data’s platform enables information technology teams to manage public cloud environments and on-premises infrastructure ...
38 attorneys general sue Google for alleged anticompetitive practices
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general representing 38 U.S. states and territories is suing Google LLC for allegedly using anticompetitive business practices to boost its search business. The company, the coalition wrote in a lawsuit filed today, has been pursuing a strategy aimed at “building an impenetrable moat to protect its kingdom.” The lawsuit, the second ...
Google Cloud powers IT modernization projects for Highmark and Tapestry
Google LLC today said that its cloud business is working with nonprofit healthcare organization Highmark Health and Tapestry Inc., a publicly traded fashion company, to support their information technology modernization efforts. Pittsburgh-based Highmark is a major regional health insurer and hospital operator. It also has a presence in a number of adjacent areas such as ...
Amazon develops phased array antenna for connecting to its internet satellites
Amazon.com Inc.’s Project Kuiper unit, which is building a network of internet satellites, today detailed a compact antenna design it developed to let users connect to the constellation from the ground. Project Kuiper is backed by more than $10 billion that Amazon earmarked earlier this year to support the effort. Unlike traditional communications satellites, which are ...
AWS goes after Google Maps Platform with debut of Amazon Location Service
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced the preview version of Amazon Location Service, a new offering in its cloud platform that enables companies to add location-based capabilities such as package tracking to their applications. The offering made its debut during the company’s virtual re:Invent event. It’s poised to create more competition for Google LLC in ...
Infiot’s new networking service links remote workers and devices to the cloud
Recently launched networking startup Infiot Inc. today announced a new service called the Cloud Services Fabric that it says makes it faster and cheaper to give remote workers and devices access to a company’s cloud applications. Infiot exited stealth mode in October with $15 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Westwave Capital and other institutional ...
Software-defined power grids: Linux Foundation group debuts platform for utilities
LF Energy, an industry group operating under the Linux Foundation umbrella, has introduced an open-source software platform called Seapath aimed at helping utilities operate their electrical substations more efficiently. LF Energy announced the project this morning. The initial Seapath source code was developed by RTE, the operator of France’s national electricity transmission network, in collaboration ...
EU proposes wide-reaching new rules to regulate tech giants
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, today proposed two new pieces of legislation that seek to prevent anticompetitive behavior by tech giants and provide more online protections for consumers. Companies found to engage in unfair business practices could be fined as much as 10% their global annual revenues under the proposed rules. If ...
AWS reveals array of new cloud observability and other new tools at re:Invent
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted an array of new features, plus managed versions of the popular Prometheus and Grafana tools, that are designed to make it easier for enterprises to monitor the health of their cloud infrastructure. AWS also used the occasion to reveal several enhancements to its lineup of “internet of things” services. ...