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Zoom acquires encrypted chat startup Keybase to make meetings more secure
Zoom Video Communications Inc. today said that it has acquired Keybase Inc., an Andreessen Horowitz-backed encrypted-chat startup, to support its efforts to implement end-to-end encryption for its videoconferencing platform. Zoom in April froze feature development for 90 days to address concerns around its privacy and security practices. Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan divulged at the ...
Uber lays off 3,700 employees across its support and recruiting teams
Uber Technologies Inc. disclosed in a regulatory filing today that it plans to lay off about 3,700 staffers, or about 14% of its last reported total headcount of 26,900 employees. The cuts are the latest in a string of workforce reductions to hit prominent Silicon Valley startups since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Airbnb ...
Microsoft unveils developer-friendly Surface Book 3 laptop as it grows device lineup
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Surface device lineup with a collection of new products headlined by the Surface Book 3, a developer-friendly laptop that packs high-speed storage and Nvidia Corp. silicon. The company also announced a refreshed version of its compact Surface Go laptop, plus four new accessories. The Surface Book 3 comes in two models. ...
At Satellite, GitHub debuts cloud-based Codespaces editor and new security tools
GitHub kicked off its virtual Satellite developer event today by unveiling Codespaces, a cloud-based code editor integrated into its platform that will roll out alongside several new security features. Codespaces propels the Microsoft Corp. subsidiary into a competitive new market. There are many rival offerings out there, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Cloud9 platform, as well as ...
SAP to sell its Digital Interconnect communications business to Sinch for $250M
SAP SE today announced plans to sell its Digital Interconnect business, which provides communications software for enterprises, to Sinch AB in a deal worth 225 million euros or about $250 million. Rumors that SAP was looking to offload the business first surfaced last month. The enterprise software giant acquired Digital Interconnect in 2010 through its ...
Apple’s online-only WWDC developer event will kick off on June 22
Apple Inc. today shared new details about the virtual edition of its Worldwide Developer Conference that will take place this year, most notably the date: The event is scheduled to kick off on June 22. WWDC is a normally in-person conference held in San Jose, California, that Apple uses to unveil new versions of iOS. ...
Database startup Cockroach Labs reels in $86.6M funding round
Database startup Cockroach Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $86.6 million in funding from a roster of blue-chip investors, among them Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm and Sequoia Capital. Cockroach Labs said it plans to use the cash to support the continued development of its namesake CockroachDB platform. The platform, which is ...
Apple refreshes 13-inch MacBook Pro with quad-core Intel chips, new keyboard
Apple Inc. today pulled back the curtains on a refreshed version of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with quad-core processor options, significantly more storage capacity and, perhaps most important, an overhauled keyboard. The laptop will start shipping to customers this week. It’s arriving hot on the heels of the new MacBook Air that Apple introduced in ...
AWS vice president and senior engineer Tim Bray resigns after worker firings
Tim Bray, a distinguished engineer and vice president at Amazon Web Services Inc., penned a blog post today announcing that he has quit over “Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.” Bray is a prominent technologist who joined AWS in 2014 after a stint at Google LLC as Android ...
Nvidia to acquire Sequoia-backed networking startup Cumulus Networks
Nvidia Corp. today announced that it has struck an agreement to acquire Cumulus Networks Inc., a data center networking startup backed by $129 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and others. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Cumulus sells a Linux-based operating system for data center switches that is used ...