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Amazon’s new hexagonal delivery drones will take flight within ‘months’
It looks like Alphabet Inc.’s budding Wing drone delivery operation will soon have some serious competition. At its re:MARS emerging technology event today, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a homegrown courier drone that it plans on using to fly packages to consumers’ homes via its Prime Air operation. It’s the latest of some two dozen drones the company ...
Setting rivalry aside, Microsoft and Oracle link their public clouds to go after AWS
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. are integrating their competing public cloud platforms to form a unified front against Amazon Web Services Inc., their common rival. The partnership, which the companies announced this morning, has several components. The first is a direct network link between Microsoft’s Azure and Oracle Cloud that will facilitate faster data sharing ...
Yellowbrick raises $81M for its hyperconverged data warehouse
Analytics startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today announced that it has raised $81 million in new funding, an investment representing its third capital raise since the start of 2018. The round saw the participation of storied venture capital firm IVP, BMW AG and more than a half-dozen existing investors, including Google LLC’s GV. Yellowbrick’s total outside funding ...
After 13 years of bootstrapping, FormAssembly raises its first $10M round
Many of the average company’s most important interactions with users, from e-commerce orders to newsletter signups, happen through online forms. It’s not the most glamorous part of the customer engagement lifecycle, but it can be surprisingly complex due to the fact that large amounts of data change hands. FormAssembly Inc. is working to streamline the ...
Amid rapid growth, SentinelOne raises $120M round led by Insight Partners
SentinelOne Inc., a fast-growing player in the endpoint security market, today revealed that it has raised a $120 million round of funding led by Insight Partners. All of the startup’s existing investors participated along with new backers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and NextEquity. The round brings its total raised to nearly $230 million. Mountain View, California-based ...
Imperva acquires bot defense startup Distil Networks
Cybersecurity heavyweight Imperva Inc. today announced that it’s buying Distil Networks Inc., a venture-backed startup that helps companies keep bots away from their websites and applications. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal marks the fifth startup buyout that the security industry has seen in the past week, a streak that speaks to ...
House Judiciary Committee will probe tech giants for possible antitrust violations
U.S. lawmakers are turning up the heat on the tech industry. The House Judiciary Committee on Monday opened an investigation to look into potential anticompetitive behavior by the companies that dominate the web. Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), who heads the panel’s antitrust subcommittee, singled out Google LLC, Facebook Inc. Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. ...
Data breach exposed up to 11.9M Quest Diagnostics patients’ medical, financial data
A backend healthcare system containing the medical and financial information of 11.9 million people has been breached, Quest Diagnostics Inc. disclosed today. The company, a major blood testing lab with 45,000 employees worldwide, detailed the incident in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The breach took place at a New York-based collection firm called American ...
Twitter acquires deep learning startup Fabula AI to fight fake news
Twitter Inc. today announced that it has bought Fabula AI Ltd., a London-based startup with a deep learning platform for detecting disinformation on online platforms. The acquisition follows a number of earlier AI investments from the social network. In 2016, Twitter paid a reported $150 million to acquire Magic Pony Ltd. another British startup that focused ...
Through landmark deal with Samsung, AMD will re-enter the mobile GPU market
A decade after selling its mobile graphics card business to Qualcomm Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is re-entering the market. AMD today announced a multiyear deal with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. that will see the handset maker use its RDNA graphics architecture in phones and tablets. Unveiled last month, RDNA was built mainly with gaming computers in ...