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Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that it will launch a data center cluster, or region as the provider calls it, in the Japanese city of Osaka to address local demand for cloud services. Construction is expected to complete early next year. The …
Meeting EU antitrust chief, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc., has penned an op-ed piece calling for the implementation of “global standards” to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. The piece was published in the Financial Times on Sunday night, hours …
Changing course, Facebook reportedly freezes plan to put ads in WhatsApp
Facebook Inc. has reportedly put its plan to sell ads inside WhatsApp on ice, a move that will likely set back the company’s efforts to realize a return the $22 billion it spent to acquire the service. The development was detailed by …
Segment and 200+ other startups take a swipe at Salesforce
In a not-so-subtle dig at Salesforce.com Inc., a group of more than 200 companies hailing mostly from the startup ecosystem today took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad to decry incumbent customer relationship management systems. The coalition, headlined by customer data processing unicorn …
Pledging to go ‘carbon negative’ by 2030, Microsoft unveils $1B climate fund
Microsoft Corp. today said that it will launch a $1 billion environmental technology fund as part of a broad, multipronged plan to become “carbon negative” by 2030. The initiative was unveiled at a special event hosted by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella …
Epsagon bags $16M to bring more transparency to containers and serverless apps
Epsagon Inc. thinks that it has found a better way to track down issues in software container and serverless computing environments. The New York-based startup, which entered the spotlight today after announcing that it has raised $16 million in funding, provides a monitoring …
Report: Apple has quietly acquired low-power AI startup Xnor.ai for about $200M
Apple Inc. has shelled out around $200 million for a Seattle startup specializing in power-efficient artificial intelligence, according to a new report. GeekWire today cited multiple sources as saying that the iPhone maker has bought three-year-old Xnor.ai Inc., which began its life …
Eyeing e-commerce opportunities, Amazon pledges to invest $1B in India
Amazon.com Inc. will invest $1 billion in India, the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market, to help more local merchants start selling online. The plan was unveiled by Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos (pictured) at an event the company held today in …
Elastic brings its data management stack to Kubernetes with ECK
Elastic N.V. today announced the general availability of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, or ECK, a version of its popular data management toolkit designed specially to run on the container orchestration framework. The Mountain View, California-based company is the developer of Elasticsearch, an …
Iconiq leads $90M round for AI-powered field service startup Zinier
Enterprises with a lot of physical infrastructure, such as wireless carriers and utilities, have large field service teams that perform maintenance work year-round to keep things keep humming along smoothly. Zinier Inc. believes that it can make those field service teams more …