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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 ...
Facebook is teaching robots to walk, grasp and feel
Last year, Facebook Inc.’s FAIR artificial intelligence lab expanded the scope of its research by launching a series of robotics projects. The objective was to facilitate new kinds of experiments in which neural networks installed on autonomous machines can tackle real-world problems. Today, Facebook Inc. provided the first public update on the effort in the ...
New Google AI can detect lung cancer in CT scans
Google LLC has built an artificial intelligence model that can analyze CT scans of people’s chests to determine if they might have lung cancer. The software, which the company detailed in a blog post today, is the fruit of a two-year development effort. Google taught the AI to detect tumors using a dataset of 42,000 ...
A new unicorn is born as Auth0 reels in $103M funding round
The login screen is one of the most unremarkable parts of an application, but it represents big business for providers such as Auth0 Inc. The startup, which helps companies add secure sign-in features to their services, today announced that it has raised a $103 million funding round at more than a $1 billion valuation. Returning backer Sapphire ...
After $180M IPO, Fastly pops 50% in NYSE debut
Following the disappointing public offerings of Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc., content delivery provider Fastly Inc. today debuted on the stock market to a markedly warmer reception. The company saw its share price jump as much as 58% in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange thanks to strong investor demand. By end ...
Amazon leads $575M round into UK food delivery startup Deliveroo
Three months after backing a half-billion-dollar round into autonomous driving firm Aurora Innovation Inc., Amazon.com Inc. has made another major startup investment. British food delivery unicorn Deliveroo Ltd. today announced that it has raised $575 million from a consortium led by the online retail giant. The other participants included Fidelity Management and Research, Greenoaks Capital ...
HPE acquires storied supercomputer maker Cray for $1.3B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that it has inked a $1.3 billion deal to acquire Cray Inc., a move poised to catapult the company to the forefront of the growing supercomputing market. The $1.3 billion price tag breaks down to $35 per share, a 17% premium to Cray’s Thursday closing price. The deal is HPE’s ...
Report: Samsung has solved Galaxy Fold screen issues, plans June launch
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s troubled Galaxy Fold may be back on track to hit the market after technical issues caused the company to delay its launch indefinitely. CNBC, citing South Korean news agency Yonhap, reported today that Samsung will begin selling the foldable handset next month. It’s unclear whether the Galaxy Fold is set to become available ...
Advancing M&A plans, SugarCRM buys marketing automation startup Salesfusion
SugarCRM Inc. today announced that it’s expanding its market reach with the acquisition of Salesfusion Inc., a marketing automation startup backed by more than $32 million in funding. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. It comes two months after SugarCRM picked up another startup, Singapore’s Collabspot Pte Ltd., that developed a tool for ...