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Google is teaming up with banks to launch a checking account service
Google LLC wants a bigger slice of the financial services market. In a Wall Street Journal interview published today, Caesar Sengupta, the head of the company’s Payments group, revealed that his unit is building a checking account service for consumers. The offering is codenamed “Cache” internally and is expected to go online as soon as ...
Container shakeup: Docker sells enterprise business to Mirantis, appoints new CEO
Software container pioneer Docker Inc. is selling off its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. as part of a shakeup that will also see Scott Johnston, formerly its head of product, take over the reins as chief executive officer. The company announced the news this morning. Docker has raised $35 million in fresh funding from Benchmark Capital and ...
Apple’s new MacBook Pro ditches the butterfly keyboard, adds AMD graphics chips
Apple Inc. today introduced a new 16-inch version of its MacBook Pro laptop that packs much faster internals and does away with the previous models’ butterfly keyboard, which represented one of the most controversial design decisions in the company’s recent history. First, the display: Apple managed to pack the new 16-inch screen into a laptop ...
Cnvrg.io picks up $8M for its collaborative AI development platform
Machine learning models are more often built by teams than individual developers because of their complexity. As a result, an engineer working on a neural network needs not only suitable programming tools but also the means to coordinate with their colleagues, a requirement that Cnvrg.io Inc. has set out to address. The New York-based startup, ...
Five9 buys Whendu to shift more enterprise contact centers to the cloud
Five9 Inc., a publicly traded provider of cloud services for running enterprise contact centers, today announced its first acquisition since 2013. The company is buying SpiderMonkey LLC, a small startup based out of the San Francisco Bay Area that does business as Whendu. It offers a tool that makes it easier to integrate an organization’s contact center systems ...
Facebook launches Facebook Pay to let users send money in WhatsApp, Instagram
Facebook Inc. today pulled back the curtains on Facebook Pay, a new feature that will serve as an overarching payment processing system across its social platforms. The system expands upon the existing financial tools the company provided before. Facebook’s namesake social network enables users to send money to contacts, donate to fundraising campaigns and buy goods ...
Challenging Nvidia, Intel unleashes three new chips for AI work
Intel Corp. today introduced a trio of chips for training and deploying artificial intelligence models that will allow it to step up the competition against Nvidia Corp., whose graphics processing units dominate the market. The chips, unveiled at a press event in San Francisco this morning, grew out of Intel’s 2016 acquisitions of two machine learning ...
Launching from stealth, Blaize pitches ‘graph-native’ chip for AI workloads
Blaize Inc. wants to help enterprises run their artificial intelligence workloads more efficiently. The El Dorado Hills, California-based startup launched from stealth mode this morning and unveiled the Graph Streaming Processor, a chip specifically designed to power AI applications. It’s positioned as an alternative to the graphic processing units and central processing units commonly used ...
SpaceX’s first 60 operational Starlink satellites deploy in orbit
SpaceX Corp. has successfully launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit, putting in place the first building block of a space-based telecommunications network meant to challenge traditional broadband providers. The satellites blasted off from Florida this morning aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. They’re SpaceX’s first operational Starlink systems, building on lessons the company drew from a launch ...
OpenText strengthens data protection business with $1.4B Carbonite deal
Information management provider OpenText Inc. today said that it will shell out $1.42 billion to acquire Carbonite Inc., a Boston-based data protection specialist. OpenText develops software that helps organizations manage the documents and other business records scattered throughout their corporate network. Carbonite, in turn, sells cloud services for protecting those business records from data loss. The ...