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Alphabet’s X lab uses analytics to tackle food insecurity
Alphabet Inc.’s X research division today shared details about Project Delta, an internal initiative aimed at combatting food insecurity and food waste with analytics. The search giant revealed Project Delta on the occasion of a notable milestone in the initiative’s roadmap. After more than two years of work, two of the systems built by X ...
Gluware extends its network automation technology to the public cloud
Gluware Inc. today debuted a new release of its network automation platform that will allow enterprises to use the software’s capabilities in their public cloud environments. The update, the company says, will ease reduce network-related operational complexity for companies adopting multicloud models. It could open new deal opportunities for Gluware by better addressing the needs of the ...
CodeSignal raises $25M for its developer assessment platform
CodeSignal, the startup behind a coding platform used by companies such as Zoom Video Communications Inc. to help them recruit software developers, today announced that it has closed $25 million in fresh funding. Early Uber Technologies Inc. investor Menlo Ventures led the round. It was joined by Capital One Financial Corp.’s venture capital arm and ...
AWS backs $36.6M funding round for GitOps inventor Weaveworks
Amazon Web Services Inc. and a group of other prominent investors have led a $36.65 million funding round into Weaveworks Inc., the startup behind the increasingly popular “GitOps” approach to managing cloud applications. The round, announced today, brings Weaveworks’ total raised to $60 million. AWS was joined in the round by GV, the venture capital ...
SingleStore raises $80M more for its real-time relational database
SingleStore Inc., the database startup known until recently as MemSQL, today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round led by Insight Partners. Dell Technologies Inc. and Hercules Capital joined Insight in the round. A number of SingleStore’s existing investors took part as well, among them Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm. San ...
Oracle adds automated load balancer to its public cloud
Oracle Corp. today pulled back the curtains on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Flexible Load Balancer, a new service in its cloud platform aimed at making it easier to add and remove network resources inside enterprise application environments. Load balancers are a foundational component of enterprise technology environments responsible for managing network traffic. They help divide ...
Cisco to acquire online events startup Slido to enhance Webex
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to acquire Slido s.r.o., a startup that helps companies provide a better experience for audiences attending online events such as virtual conferences and webinars. Cisco plans to use the startup’s technology to enhance the capabilities of its Webex videoconferencing platform, which competes with Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Slido provides ...
DoorDash seeks to raise up to $3.1B in IPO after boosting target range
DoorDash Inc. has upped the fundraising target for its forthcoming initial public offering and is now looking to raise as much as $3.1 billion from public investors. The food delivery giant disclosed the revised goal today in a regulatory filing spotted by Bloomberg. It said in the same filing that the funds raised through the ...
Intel’s latest quantum control chip manipulates qubits with radio pulses
Intel Corp. has shared details about Horse Ridge II, a quantum control chip that it describes as a milestone toward enabling large-scale quantum machines. The company revealed the chip on Thursday during a virtual event hosted by its Intel Labs Unit. Horse Ridge II emerged from the company’s efforts to tackle what it sees as ...
Nutanix’s storage services get a hybrid cloud boost
Nutanix Inc. today announced upgrades for two of its storage products, Objects and Files, that will enable companies to take better advantage of the public cloud in their operations. Publicly traded Nutanix is a major provider of software for managing information technology infrastructure. Objects and Files are two services that companies can deploy atop their ...