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AR navigation startup Phiar bags $3M investment backed by Y Combinator
Phiar Inc., an augmented reality startup eyeing revenue opportunities in self-driving cars, today announced that it has raised $3 million to bring its technology to market. The seed round was led by Virtual Reality Fund. The more than a half-dozen other backers that participated in the investment included prominent Sand Hill Road firm Mayfield Fund ...
Google expands its Project Fi wireless service to iPhones and most Android devices
Google LLC is moving to grow its role in the telecommunications market. The search giant today expanded the availability of Project Fi, the wireless service it launched in 2015, to iPhones and the “majority” of Android devices. The company also renamed the service to Google Fi in another sign that its telecommunications operation is starting to shed its experimental ...
AWS racks up cloud deals with finance heavyweights Guardian Life and Openbank
Two more multibillion-dollar companies have jumped on the Amazon Web Services Inc. bandwagon at the cloud leader’s re:Invent conference this week. AWS today revealed that insurance giant The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and online banking provider Open Bank SA have chosen to migrate their operations to its platform. The announcement brings the total number of ...
Robinhood, valued at $5.6B, hires its first CFO ahead of planned IPO
Robinhood Markets Inc., one of the fastest-growing players in the red-hot financial technology segment, has moved a step closer towards going public. The heavily funded startup today announced that it has appointed Amazon.com Inc. veteran Jason Warnick as its first chief financial officer. Warnick joins Robinhood after a 20-year stint with the online retail giant. He ...
Red Hat snaps up cross-cloud data management startup NooBaa
Red Hat Inc. today announced that it has picked up Boston-based data management startup NooBaa Inc. to boost its strategically important hybrid cloud portfolio. The deal comes as the company itself is being acquired by IBM Corp. in a $34 million acquisition expected to complete next year. Red Hat’s strong position in the hybrid cloud market ...
LinkedIn launches new data features for Samza stream processing engine
LinkedIn today announced a major new release of the Samza stream processing engine, one of its marquee open-source projects, that will give enterprises more options in how they analyze their real-time data. Samza is built to process high-volume data streams quickly with a high degree of reliability. This feature combination makes it handy for a ...
HPE acquires BlueData to boost its AI and analytics ambitions
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today revealed that it plans to acquire BlueData Software Inc., a startup focused on making it easier for companies to use artificial intelligence and analytics tools. HPE expects to close the deal by the end of January. The company didn’t share the financial terms, but it’s reasonable to assume that the ...
AWS advances cloud storage with Intelligent Tiering, new data management tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. opened its re:Invent 2018 conference today with the introduction of new products and features intended to give enterprises more incentive to move their data to its cloud platform. Many of the additions center on the provider’s S3 object storage service. S3 is one of the original products that AWS had on ...
AWS launches RoboMaker to help developers build software brains for robots
Amazon.com Inc. uses internally designed robots to shuffle goods around its warehouses and has lately been experimenting with adding delivery drones to the mix. Now, the company’s cloud division wants to win the business of the other firms that use autonomous machines in their operations. To that end, Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched RoboMaker, ...
U.S. reportedly asks foreign allies to stop using Huawei carrier equipment
The U.S. government is reportedly urging foreign allies to stop using hardware from China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in local carrier networks. The push, which was detailed by the Wall Street Journal today, is said to have seen American officials reach out to both government counterparts and telecommunications executives. The unnamed sources who shared the ...