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Waltham, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity startup Uptycs Inc. today announced it has closed a $50 million funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Sapphire Ventures and ServiceNow Inc.’s venture capital arm. The round brings Uptycs’ total outside funding to more than …
Google’s Fuchsia operating system begins early rollout to consumer devices
Google LLC is launching what appears to be the first major pilot of its internally developed Fuchsia operating system. The search giant told 9to5Google today that it began rolling out Fuchsia to devices from its 2018 Nest Hub smart display series this week. …
Arm debuts its fastest CPUs to date for mobile and ‘internet of things’ devices
Arm Holdings Ltd., the chip designer whose semiconductor blueprints power most smartphones along with countless other devices, today introduced a new generation of central processing units and related components under the Total Compute brand. Total Compute silicon is designed for use in …
Veeam previews new cloud-native features as it sets sights on market leadership
Veeam Software Inc. kicked off its virtual VeeamOn 2021 event today by previewing a slew of upcoming features for protecting data across Kubernetes clusters, public cloud environments and software-as-a-service applications. The cloud-centric feature lineup will roll out in the second half of …
AI-powered logistics software startup FarEye lands $100M investment
FarEye Inc., whose machine learning-powered logistics platform helps companies such as UPS Inc. process more than 100 million transactions a month, has raised $100 million in funding through a new funding round announced today. TCV and Dragoneer Investment Group jointly led the …
Facebook debuts Dynaboard and Dynascore to advance AI research
Facebook Inc. today detailed Dynaboard and Dynascore, two new innovations developed by its artificial intelligence group that aim to help computer scientists build better machine learning models. Dynaboard and Dynascore are implemented as components of Dynabench, a tool for AI researchers that …
Invoca buys contact center AI startup DialogTech for reported $100M
Invoca Inc., a well-funded provider of contact center analytics software backed by Accel, has acquired another startup in the contact center analytics market called DialogTech Inc. for a reported $100 million. Invoca announced the acquisition today without disclosing the deal size. The …
Esper raises $30M to ease the management of Android-powered IoT fleets
Esper Enterprises Inc., a startup developing technology for managing “internet of things” device fleets powered by Android, disclosed on Thursday that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Android, though best known as a mobile operating …
Snap acquires AR optical parts maker WaveOptics for reported $500M+
Snapchat operator Snap Inc. is spending more than $500 million to acquire Wave Optics Ltd., better known as WaveOptics, a U.K.-based maker of displays and other optical components for augmented reality glasses. The deal was reported by The Verge this morning. According …
Intel and Dell back $90M round for data access security specialist Immuta
Data security startup Immuta Inc. has raised $90 million from a large group of investors that included the venture capital arms of Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp., it was announced today. Immuta provides a software platform that helps companies prevent unauthorized …