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Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before Congress amid probe into big tech
Amazon.com Inc. has signaled that Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before Congress as lawmakers investigate the business practices of the tech industry’s top players. The House Judiciary Committee is currently pursuing an antitrust probe into Amazon, Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Google LLC to look for potential anti-competitive conduct. A report last week ...
UK antitrust watchdog opens inquiry into Facebook’s Giphy acquisition
The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, said today that it has opened an inquiry into the deal Facebook Inc. inked to acquire Giphy Inc. last month. An Axios report at the time indicated that the social network is paying about $400 million for the company. While the CMA’s investigation is ongoing, Facebook and ...
Google sues smart speaker maker Sonos in escalating legal feud
Google LLC on Thursday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against smart speaker maker Sonos Inc., five months after it likewise sued Google for infringing its patents. Publicly traded Sonos sells high-end smart speakers and audio accessories that provide voice control features through integration with popular artificial intelligence assistants. Google Assistant is one of the services the ...
Twitter purges 32,000+ accounts engaged in ‘state-linked information operations’
Twitter Inc. said today that it has taken down more than 32,000 fake accounts engaged in “state-linked information operations” on its platform. According to a blog post from members of the Twitter Safety team, the accounts were operated by three networks that it has connected to the People’s Republic of China, Russia, and Turkey. The company ...
Microsoft boosts Azure with new edge video analytics and authentication features
Microsoft Corp. today introduced a new edge video analytics product for its Azure cloud platform, as well as improved authentication features to help organizations better address the shift to remote work. There’s a growing trend of analytics workloads moving from data centers to the so-called edge of the network. A manufacturer, for instance, might wish to ...
API startup Postman reels in $150M funding round at $2B valuation
Postman Inc., the startup behind a popular platform for building application programming interfaces that’s used by 11 million developers worldwide, has raised $150 million in fresh funding at a $2 billion valuation. The funding round, announced today, is the third for the six-year-old startup so far. Insight Partners served as lead investor, with participation from ...
Report: EU preparing to file antitrust charges against Amazon
European Union officials are readying antitrust charges against Amazon.com Inc. that could be filed as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Sources told the publication that the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch and top competition regulator, has been probing Amazon’s treatment of third-party merchants on its marketplace for close to ...
Spike raises $8M to turn business emails into a chat stream
Chatflow Ltd., a startup doing business as Spike that wants to change how business users interact with emails, has closed a $8 million round of funding led by Insight Partners to build out its product vision. The round was announced this morning. It follows a $5 million investment last March that saw the participation of ...
Report: Some Apple employees will start returning to its Cupertino HQ next week
Apple Inc. will open its global headquarters in Cupertino, California, to a limited number of employees on June 15, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg late Tuesday. Apple’s headquarters is a massive 2.8-million-square-feet circular facility where about 12,000 staffers normally do their work. Apple in March asked employees to telecommute because of the ...
Intel reveals first 3D Lakefield processors with stacked cores
Intel Corp. today unveiled three-dimensional processors that use a technology called Foveros to stack components atop one another in vertical layers, an approach the chipmaker says improves efficiency and reduces power requirements. The processor series has been codenamed “Lakefield” by Intel. On launch, the line includes two systems-on-chip that target lightweight consumer devices such as ...