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Updated: Grubhub confirms acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway for $7.3B
Beating out Uber Technologies Inc., Just Eat Takeaway.com NV confirmed today that it’s acquiring struggling food delivery giant Grubhub Inc. for $7.3 billion. Multiple sources earlier today had told CNBC that Uber was likely to pull the plug on the bid after disagreements over antitrust matters. Uber and Grubhub executives were reportedly worried that a merger, which would ...
Pure Storage converges block and file storage in its flagship FlashArray systems
Pure Storage Inc. kicked off its virtual Accelerate event today by unveiling Purity 6.0, a new version of the operating system powering its flagship FlashArray line of all-flash arrays that introduces unified block and file storage capabilities. The upgrade also brings with a few other notable enhancements, including a feature called ActiveDR and better public ...
Cloudera reportedly exploring a sale after interest from potential buyers
Data management and analytics heavyweight Cloudera Inc. is looking at potentially selling itself, Bloomberg reported today. Sources familiar with the matter told the publication that publicly traded Cloudera has held talks with multiple potential buyers including private equity firms this year. The company is also said to have hired a financial adviser to help weigh its ...
Google Maps now shows COVID-19 travel restriction alerts on iOS and Android
Google LLC is upgrading the iOS and Android versions of Google Maps with new features that show users if travel routes they plan to use may be affected by coronavirus-related government restrictions. The update started rolling out Monday in a select number of countries, including the U.S. The first set of new features focuses on users who use Google ...
Apple’s long-rumored Arm-powered Macs could debut at WWDC this month
Apple Inc.’s long-rumored plan to develop a new line of Mac computers based on Arm Ltd. chip blueprints is set to be formally announced at its virtual WWDC developer event this month, according to a Bloomberg report today. WWDC, which will feature Apple’s top executives such as Chief Executive Tim Cook (pictured) introducing new products and services, ...
HPE’s Aruba introduces unified AI data lake to connect its networking portfolio
Aruba, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s network equipment subsidiary, today launched a new product called the Edge Services Platform that uses artificial intelligence to find and fix issues in enterprise networks automatically. ESP is the culmination of years of development, said Aruba President Keerti Melkote. The product finds issues by analyzing telemetry data from the HPE ...
AI-powered insurance unicorn Lemonade files to go public
Lemonade Inc., the startup behind a popular artificial intelligence-powered homeowners’ and renters’ insurance service, today filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. New York-based Lemonade was valued at more than $2 billion after its most recent funding round in early 2019. The startup hit the scene in 2016 and has since amassed ...
Uber’s new Neuropod interface abstracts multiframework AI development
Uber Technologies Inc.’s autonomous driving group today open-sourced Neuropod, a technology designed to reduce the amount of coding enterprise developers have to do to build and deploy artificial intelligence models. The problem Neuropod seeks to address is one Uber encountered internally. Enterprises with a sizable in-house AI development operation often use several AI development frameworks, such ...
Report: Uber’s push to acquire Grubhub challenged by rival offers
Uber Technologies Inc. is reportedly no longer the only company looking to buy Grubhub Inc., the largest food delivery provider in the U.S. CNBC, citing multiple sources, reported today that publicly traded Grubhub has received offers from at least two European food delivery providers. The tipsters identified the would-be acquirers as Germany’s Delivery Hero SE ...
AWS launches AMD-based C5a instances for compute-heavy workloads
Amazon Web Services Inc. has launched a new family of cloud instances that run on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors and target computationally intensive workloads such as analytics applications. The instances, which became available under the C5a name Thursday, are the first from AWS to use AMD’s second-generation Epyc Rome processors. The chips are based ...