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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. ...
In landmark decision, Ireland’s privacy regulator fines Twitter for GDPR breach
Ireland’s privacy regulator, the Data Protection Commission, has handed down a fine of €450,000 or about $547,000 to Twitter Inc. after finding that the company had run afoul of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The fine, announced today, is notable because it marks the first such GDPR-related penalty issued to a U.S. tech ...
AI explainability specialist Truera closes $12M round
Truera Inc., a startup working to give enterprises better insight into how their artificial intelligence models make decisions, today said that it has closed a $12 million funding round led by Wing VC. The investment comes just months after Truera launched from stealth mode. In all, the startup has raised more than $17 million to ...
Multiple Google services briefly go offline after wide-reaching authentication issue
Many of Google LLC’s most widely used services, including Gmail, Google Docs and Maps temporarily went offline this morning as a result of an issue with an internal authentication system. The search giant resolved the problem for most users in less than an hour. A company spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement that the outage ...
Amazon’s Zoox unit has built its own self-driving taxi
Amazon.com Inc.’s Zoox unit has pulled back the curtains on a homegrown self-driving taxi that can cover up to 75 miles an hour and drive more than half a day on a single battery charge. Foster City, California-based Zoox was acquired by Amazon earlier this year in a deal reportedly worth $1.2 billion. The online ...
Solid-state lidar maker Innoviz to go public in $1.4B SPAC merger
Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a maker of lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles that counts BMW AG among its customers, today announced plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Special purpose acquisition companies, most commonly referred to as SPACs or blank-check companies, are entities created for the sole purpose of merging ...