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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 ...
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 ...