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Nuweba adds GPUs to its serverless platform to take on AWS in the AI market
Israeli startup Nuweba Labs Ltd. today added support for graphics processing units to its namesake serverless computing platform, which it claims can now run machine learning models 100 times faster than Amazon Web Services Inc.’s competing offering. Nuweba emerged from stealth this year with $4.8 million in initial funding from Magma Partners, Target Global and ...
Google acquires CloudSimple to bring more VMware workloads into its cloud
Google LLC has acquired CloudSimple Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based startup with a software platform that makes it easier for companies to move their on-premises applications to the cloud. The search giant didn’t disclose the purchase price in the acquisition announcement this morning. CloudSimple raised a seed investment from Microsoft Corp. in 2016 and lists ...
Salesforce cozies up to Apple with iOS-exclusive Trailhead app, AI update
Salesforce.com Inc. is deepening the product partnership it struck with Apple Inc. last September. At its Dreamforce event opening in San Francisco today, the company launched an employee training app called Trailhead Go that will be available exclusively on the iPhone and iPad. It provides access to more than 700 learning modules that cover subjects ...
Decade-long Google-Oracle copyright dispute heads to US Supreme Court
A closely watched copyright dispute in which Oracle Corp. is seeking billions of dollars in damages from Google LLC will move up to the U.S. Supreme Court, adding yet another chapter to a decade-long legal saga. The case, which the court accepted today, revolves around the Java programming language. Oracle obtained the rights to the ...
VCs bet $53M on Nuvia, a chip startup led by Apple’s former top processor engineer
Santa Clara, California-based data center chip startup Nuvia Inc. burst onto the scene today by announcing that it has secured a $53 million funding round from a group of prominent investors. Dell Technologies Inc.’s venture capital arm, Mayfield, WRVI Capital and Capricorn Investment Group jointly led the round. Their bet on Nuvia is notable not ...
Salesforce’s MuleSoft brings its API platform to Google Cloud, plugs in BigQuery
MuleSoft LLC is giving enterprises more choice of where they run its software. The Salesforce.com Inc. subsidiary today revealed plans to make its Anypoint Runtime Fabric available on Google Cloud and said it’s adding a connector for the search giant’s BigQuery data warehouse. Anypoint Runtime Fabric is the linchpin of MuleSoft’s flagship Anypoint Platform, a ...
Adobe launches full customer data platform, with new data wrangling features
Six months after releasing its customer data platform into beta, Adobe Systems Inc. today announced the general availability of the offering and two other tools aimed at helping enterprise marketers gain a better understanding of their target buyers. The term customer data platform, or CDP, covers a relatively new category of solutions that enable companies to ...
Help desk automation startup Moveworks lands $75M round
When employees at Autodesk Inc. and Nutanix Inc. submit a support ticket to the information technology department, their issue is oftentimes resolved before an administrator even gets around to reading the request. The two tech firms are among the growing list of companies using help desk automation technology from Moveworks Inc., a three-year-old startup that ...
In a win for Microsoft, Salesforce will migrate its Marketing Cloud to Azure
Salesforce.com Inc. will move its Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure platform as part of a new hosting deal the companies revealed today. It’s safe to assume the contract is quite large even though the tech giants didn’t disclose any financial details. Marketing Cloud is a suite of advertising tools, analytics features and related products ...
Google completes its 6,500-mile Curie subsea internet cable to Chile
Google LLC today announced that it has finished installing and testing Curie, a 6,500-mile submarine internet cable connecting the United States with Chile. The project’s completion comes seven months after the tip of the network link touched down in Valparaíso, a Chilean port city about 75 miles northwest of the capital Santiago. The other end ...