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EU advances new rules to increase regulation of tech giants, online platforms
The European Union’s three lawmaking institutions have agreed on new rules aimed at increasing regulation of online platform operators such as Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC. The approval, announced today, comes 10 months after the legislation was first submitted. The draft can now advance to a vote before EU member states and the ...
Expanding its cloud platform, DigitalOcean launches managed database service
DigitalOcean Inc. today launched the first in a new series of managed database services that will challenge existing offerings from bigger rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. The heavily-funded startup, which ranks as the third-largest cloud provider by the number of internet-facing instances it hosts, enjoys a particularly strong following among developers and startups. ...
Apple’s streaming service could reportedly arrive in April with free original shows
Apple Inc.’s long-rumored video streaming platform may become available as early as a couple of months from now. Citing people familiar with the project, CNBC reported today that the iPhone maker is gearing up to launch the service in April or early May. The news follows a separate leak that indicated Apple will host an ...
Google to spend $13B on new data centers and expansions in 2019
Google LLC today said that it plans to spend $13 billion on new data centers and infrastructure expansion in 2019 as part of its growth strategy. The figure is a significant jump over the $9 billion the search giant invested in this area during 2018, though the company intends to reduce overall capital expenditures. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer ...
Amazon expands Alexa Skill Blueprints to court brands and content creators
Amazon.com Inc. is making it easier for companies and content creators to engage consumers via the more than 100 million devices that run Alexa. The company today released an update for Alexa Skill Blueprints, a feature originally released to let users personalize the voice assistant. It will enable companies to create and publish custom Alexa extensions ...
Amid rising competition, time-series database startup InfluxData raises $60M round
InfluxData Inc., the maker of a specialized database used at companies such as SAP SE and Tesla Inc., today revealed that it has closed a $60 million funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The investment doubles InfluxData’s total capital raised to $120 million. It represents a significant vote of confidence for the startup in ...
Datadog acquires application testing startup Madumbo to extend market reach
Datadog Inc., a major player in the crowded infrastructure monitoring market, today announced that it has acquired Paris-based startup Madumbo to move into the adjacent application testing segment. The deal is Datadog’s third to date. It previously bought another French startup called Logmatic.io in 2017 that developed a service for analyzing machine-generated data from technology systems. ...
Alphabet co-leads $16M round into geothermal energy spinout Dandelion
A handful of households in upstate New York is helping to pioneer what Dandelion Energy Inc. hopes will be the next big source of clean residential power. The startup, which spun out from Alphabet Inc. two years ago, makes geothermal systems that draw heat from the ground to keep homes warm in the winter and ...
Trump to sign executive order aimed at boosting AI development in the US
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later today that will direct the U.S. government to take a more active role in the development and regulation of artificial intelligence. Information is scarce about the American AI Initiative, as it’s called, with the administration pledging to release details over the next six months. The ...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro picks up $940M from SoftBank
For a market that didn’t exist a couple years ago, the nascent autonomous delivery market is certainly drawing a lot of investor interest. Nuro Inc., a startup looking to use self-driving vehicles to pick up groceries for consumers, today announced that it has closed a staggering $940 million investment from SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. ...