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Coralogix reels in $25M for its AI-infused log analytics platform
Less than a year after closing a $10 million funding round, log analytics startup Coralogix Inc. today said it has raised another $25 million from a group of investors led by Red Dot Capital and O.G. Tech Partners. San Francisco-based Coralogix provides a cloud service that organizations use to find issues in their information technology ...
Amazon introduces palm-scanning payment system in its Go stores
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted Amazon One, a biometric payment system that allows shoppers to pay at a physical store by placing their palm above a contactless scanner. Amazon One is initially launching in two of the online retail giant’s Amazon Go stores in Seattle. The company plans to roll out the system to more Go ...
McAfee to go public after boosting revenue to $1.4B in first half of 2020
Cybersecurity giant McAfee Corp. has filed for an initial public offering that will return it to the stock market after a decade-long hiatus and allow it to pursue more strategic acquisitions. McAfee generated net revenue of $1.4 billion in the six months through June 27, according to the IPO filing that the company made public ...
VMware picks up infrastructure automation provider SaltStack
VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the backdrop of VMware’s virtual VMworld event today, where the company debuted a number of new products. The terms of the acquisition aren’t being disclosed. SaltStack is ...
Arm rolls out new hardened chip designs for robots and smart cars
Arm Ltd. today introduced three new chip designs aimed at industrial robots and smart vehicles, including cars with fully or partially autonomous driving features. The products will put more wind behind the firm’s efforts to capture the growing market for so-called “internet of things” chips. Executives estimate that the auto and industrial automation segments alone ...
Arista Networks buys well-funded AI threat detection startup Awake Security
Arista Networks Inc. today said that it has entered into an agreement to buy Awake Security Inc., a network threat detection startup backed by nearly $80 million in funding. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Awake likely isn’t selling for lack of financial runway: It raised its latest funding round, a $30 million Series B investment, less ...
Veritas acquires Globanet to simplify Zoom and Slack data governance
Data management heavyweight Veritas Technologies LLC today said it’s acquiring Globanet, a Los Angeles firm whose software is used by enterprises to archive employee correspondence for legal purposes. The deal could cement Veritas’ position in the archiving software market, where Gartner Inc. ranks it as the largest player by revenue as of 2019. The terms of ...
Google makes AI Platform Prediction generally available with expanded features
Google LLC today announced the general availability of AI Platform Prediction, a service that allows companies to host machine learning models on its public cloud without having to worry about infrastructure management. Setting up a production-grade machine learning environment manually can be technically challenging even for large enterprises. With AI Platform Prediction, Google promises to ...
Report: Google will push for more major app developers to use its payment system
Google LLC is readying an update to the Play Store’s guidelines that will put more pressure on app developers to use its payment system, Bloomberg reported today. The report comes at a time when both Google and rival Apple Inc. are facing scrutiny over their rules concerning in-app purchases. Apple, which also requires developers to ...
Amazon builds custom AZ1 ‘neural edge’ processor into its new Echo speaker
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a new iteration of its bestselling Echo smart speaker with a custom-made artificial intelligence processor for processing voice commands. The Echo is the flagship device in Amazon’s eponymous family of smart speakers. Since introducing the product line in 2014, the company is estimated to have sold tens of millions of devices ...