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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today granted top-level project status to etcd, an open-source data management system that serves as a key component of Kubernetes and can be found in many other software projects as well. Today’s milestone follows a nearly two-year …
AWS becomes preferred cloud for e-commerce giants Mercado Libre and Zalando
Amazon Web Services Inc. today divulged that Mercado Libre Inc. and Zalando SE, two major players in the global e-commerce market with millions of users each, have selected it as their preferred cloud provider. Mercado Libre is the largest online retail and …
Uber, Lyft win U.S. government transport deal worth up to $810M
The U.S. General Services Administration today issued Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. a multimillion-dollar deal to provide transportation services for government workers. The contract was reported today by Reuters. It’s said to be worth up to $810 million over five years, …
Self-driving truck startup Gatik closes $25M in fresh funding
Self-driving truck startup Gatik AI Inc. today said that it has closed a $25 million funding round to streamline the so-called “middle mile” of enterprise supply chains. The Series A round was co-led by Wittington Ventures and Innovation Endeavors, the venture capital …
Microsoft 365 specialist AvePoint to go public through $2B SPAC merger
AvePoint Inc., a maker of software products that help organizations manage their Microsoft 365 deployments, today announced plans to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Microsoft 365 is a family of cloud services from Microsoft Corp. that …
Rubrik supercharges database backups with Andes 5.3
Rubrik Inc. has introduced a new release of its cloud data protection platform that backs up databases up to 10 times faster than before in some cases, while providing better integrations with the major public clouds. Andes 5.3, announced Thursday afternoon, brings …
Wish and Roblox release IPO filings, revealing rapid growth
Mobile e-commerce unicorn Wish, officially ContextLogic Inc., today revealed that it has more than 100 million monthly active users who helped it generate $1.7 billion in revenue during the first nine months of 2020. Wish shared the figures in a filing released today for …
AWS’ AI tools help customers adjust to changes amid pandemic
Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about how a few of its customers have used Amazon Textract and other artificial intelligence offerings in its public cloud to respond to operational changes during the pandemic. Amazon Textract is a managed AI service …
Quantum software startup Zapata Computing reels in $38M round
Zapata Computing Inc., a Harvard spinoff working to make it easier to write software for quantum computers, today disclosed that it has closed a $38 million funding round to support research and go-to-market activities. Comcast Ventures, Pitango and Prelude Ventures led the round. …
Facebook says upgraded AI models spot nearly 95% of hate speech it removes
Facebook Inc. removed 22.1 million pieces of hate speech content on its namesake social network in the third quarter, 94.7% of which was detected automatically by artificial intelligence models. The company shared the figures in the latest edition of its Community Standards …