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Magic Leap reportedly lays off 1,000 employees as it pivots to the enterprise
Magic Leap Inc., the high-profile mixed-reality startup that has raised more than $2 billion in funding, is reportedly laying off about 1,000 employees to shore up its long-term business prospects. The cuts were first reported today by Bloomberg, which cited sources as saying that the departing staffers represent about half of the startup’s workforce. Magic ...
Hackers spotted using new iPhone vulnerability in email-borne cyberattacks
Apple Inc. is working on a fix for a newly disclosed iOS vulnerability that has been actively used by hackers to launch cyberattacks. The flaw was detailed today by San Francisco-based threat detection startup ZecOps Inc., which tipped off the iPhone maker on Feb. 19. ZecOps researchers came across the vulnerability after detecting that hackers ...
AWS’ first cloud region in Africa comes online
Amazon Web Services Inc. today inaugurated its first cloud region, or data center cluster, in Africa, 18 months after first announcing plans to extend its platform to the continent. The new region is located in Cape Town, South Africa, which represents something of a full circle for AWS. The Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary’s Cape Town development ...
Google and Cisco join forces to extend the on-premises network to the cloud
Google LLC and Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a push to build broad new integrations between their products that will give enterprises the ability to manage on-premises and public cloud network centrally. The product integrations will be delivered in the form of an offering dubbed Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. Cisco and Google are aiming ...
Aviatrix debuts CoPilot to provide deeper visibility into multicloud networks
Aviatrix Systems Inc. today pulled back the curtains on CoPilot, a monitoring service aimed at making it easier for administrators to find issues in large corporate networks spanning multiple public clouds. A company that has workloads scattered across multiple providers’ data centers needs to keep tabs on each deployment individually. Normally, that requires using several ...
In new lawsuit, Commvault accuses Cohesity and Rubrik of violating 7 patents
Three of the most prominent players in the data protection market are headed to court. Commvault Systems Inc. today said that it has sued startup rivals Cohesity Inc. and Rubrik Inc. for collectively infringing upon seven of its patents. The lawsuit, filed in a Delaware federal court, seeks an injunction against the companies as well as monetary ...
Uber moves into package delivery with new Direct and Connect courier services
Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday evening started rolling out two new courier services that will enable businesses to deliver online orders and consumers to send packages to one another via the company’s app. Usage of Uber’s core ride-hailing offerings has plummeted in recent weeks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Moving into the package delivery market, ...
Facebook launches COVID-19 symptom map to help authorities track virus spread
Facebook Inc. today launched a COVID-19 symptom map as part of a project with Carnegie Mellon University aimed at giving authorities the ability to forecast coronavirus hospitalization numbers weeks in advance. Before health officials can start accurately projecting future hospital admissions, they need a clear picture of how many people may already have COVID-19. Facebook is looking to fill in ...
In global expansion, Alibaba will invest $28B in cloud infrastructure over the next 3 years
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced plans to invest 200 billion yuan, or about $28 billion, over the next three years to bolster its cloud infrastructure, an investment equivalent to more than half of its revenue in the fiscal year ended March 2019. Alibaba is the largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider in the Asia Pacific region, with a market ...
Report: Rackspace has secretly filed to go public with eye to $10B+ valuation
Rackspace Holding Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering that could value it at more $10 billion including debt, according to sources cited by Reuters on Thursday. Rackspace started out as a hosting provider in 1998 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange a decade later. In 2016, the company once again ...