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Arm unleashes AI-optimized chips for 2020’s flagship phones and beyond
Arm Ltd., the British firm whose semiconductor designs are used in most of the world’s connected devices and handsets, today debuted the chips that will likely power the next generation of flagship Android phones. The unveiling comes hot on the heels of the company introducing a new accelerator for virtual reality headsets. While that chip, known ...
SpaceX launches its first 60 internet satellites into low Earth orbit
Thursday night marked yet another milestone for Elon Musk’s SpaceX Corp. At precisely 10:30 p.m. EDT, the company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with 60 Starlink internet satellites aboard. Just over an hour later, 273 miles about the launchpad, the spacecraft were released into their low Earth orbit ...
DoorDash pulls in $600M at $12.6B valuation to keep up its growth streak
Venture capital continues to flow into the crowded food delivery market. DoorDash Inc., one of the leading players in the segment, today announced that it has closed a $600 million funding round at a formidable $12.6 billion valuation. The investment comes a mere three months after the startup’s last raise of $400 million. Most of the ...
With Sponsors, GitHub aims to give open-source projects more financial support
GitHub wants to help the programmers who maintain the world’s open-source software get financial support for their work. The Microsoft Corp. subsidiary today launched Sponsors, a tool for funding the projects on its code hosting platform and the developers behind them. GitHub is home to much of the world’s open-source software, including foundational technologies such ...
Amazon reportedly developing a voice-powered wearable that can read emotions
Amazon.com Inc. is developing a wearable device for the health and wellness market that can deduce the user’s emotional state, Bloomberg reported today. The publication learned of the project from internal company documents and an anonymous source, presumably the same person who leaked the files. Reportedly codenamed “Dylan” by Amazon personnel, the device is described ...
Informatica and Google join forces on cloud data management
Informatica Corp. has entered into a broad partnership with Google LLC to make its widely used data management products available on the search giant’s public cloud. The alliance, announced Tuesday, will expand upon the existing integrations that the companies provide between their products. Informatica sells services that simplify the process of integrating business data kept in disparate ...
Siding with FTC, judge rules Qualcomm’s licensing practices are anticompetitive
A judge has ruled against Qualcomm Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, finding that the way the company licenses its mobile chip technology violates competition law. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh issued the decision late Tuesday night in San Diego. Koh wrote in the 223-page ruling that Qualcomm has abused ...
With industry support, Microsoft launches standard for service mesh interoperability
Microsoft Corp. today broadened its open-source efforts with the launch of Service Mesh Interface, or SMI, a specification that aims to bring interoperability to a key part of the cloud technology landscape. The service mesh is a concept that emerged with the rise of software containers. Companies are increasingly taking a modular approach with their software ...
Veeam enhances data protection capabilities as it hits $1B in annual bookings
Veeam Software Inc. today unveiled enhancements for its data protection software and a new partner program aimed at giving it a competitive boost as it enters a new stage of growth. Switzerland-based Veeam is a major player in the data protection market with more than 350,000 customers worldwide. Most of those are small and midsized ...
Sales automation startup People.ai picks up $60M round led by Iconiq
People.ai Inc., a sales automation startup that counts a Who’s Who of tech companies among its customers, has raised a $60 million funding round led by Iconiq Capital. The investment was announced today, just seven months after People.ai’s last raise. Several of the investors that contributed to its previous rounds joined Iconiq Capital to back ...