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Continuing acquisition streak, Autodesk to buy BuildingConnected for $275M
In the four decades since its initial release, Autodesk Inc.’s AutoCAD has established itself as go-to industrial design platform for key sectors such as manufacturing, electrical engineering and construction. The latter market is becoming a particular focus for the company as it seeks to create new sources of revenue growth. Autodesk today announced that it has ...
Qualcomm wins injunction banning Apple from selling some iPhones in Germany
Qualcomm Inc. has racked up another victory in its cross-border legal dispute with Apple Inc. over intellectual property licensing fees. A German court today issued an injunction prohibiting the sale of the iPhone 7 and 8 in the country. The justification for the ruling is that the two models were found to violate Qualcomm patents ...
Nine months after fatal accident, Uber returns its self-driving cars to public roads
Uber Technologies Inc. today resumed self-driving car tests on public roads in North America, albeit on a limited basis, nine months after a fatal accident led it to suspend trials. An autonomous vehicle belonging to the company struck and killed an Arizona woman in March because of a software issue. A subsequent investigation found that ...
Microsoft to release a native desktop virtualization service for Windows 10
Microsoft Corp. will introduce a native virtualization service for Windows 10 as part of an upcoming operating system release slated to arrive next year. The technology, which the company detailed today, is set to ship under the name Sandbox. It will enable users to safely open unknown or suspicious applications in a virtual environment isolated ...
With billionaire backing, Alphabet’s latest spinoff tackles energy storage
Alphabet Inc. today launched a new venture focused on developing energy storage technology, which is seen as a key to driving global adoption of renewable power sources. The freshly spun out Malta Inc. was incubated at the search giant’s X research division. It joins previous X graduates such as Waymo LLC, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle business, which has ...
Report reveals Facebook gave some partners access to users’ private messages
Updated: Facebook Inc. gave corporate partners unusually broad access to user information, in some cases even enabling companies to view and edit private messages sent via Messenger. That’s among the revelations contained in a bombshell New York Times report published Tuesday night. Citing hundreds of pages of internal data sharing logs, the paper said that ...
AT&T launches first public 5G network in US
The telecommunications industry’s shift to 5G hit a major milestone today after AT&T Inc. announced that it has become the first U.S. carrier to launch a wireless service based on the technology. Though already live, the service will only become available to consumers on Friday. It’s launching in 12 major cities around the country: Atlanta, ...
Nvidia challenger Graphcore reels in $200M for its ultrafast AI chips
Artificial intelligence chip startup Graphcore Ltd. today announced that it has raised $200 million from investors at a $1.7 billion valuation to fuel development and go-to-market efforts. The round is notable not only because of its size but also the fact that Graphcore is less than three years old. That’s an especially short time span in ...
Cisco snaps up networking chipmaker Luxtera for $660M
Cisco Systems Inc. today said that it will shell out $660 million to buy Luxtera Inc., a Carlsbad, California-based maker of specialized chips for high-speed optical networks. The deal’s announcement comes a week after word leaked that the companies were holding acquisition talks. Cisco reportedly beat out offers from Intel Corp. and Broadcom Inc. earlier ...
Seismic lands $100M in fresh funding to boost sales teams’ productivity
In the enterprise, competing for deals requires salespeople to possess highly specific information about both their company’s offerings and the buyer. But that information is not always straightforward to find in large companies that have gigabytes’ worth of sales materials on hand. Seismic Software Inc., a startup dedicated to simplifying the task, today announced that ...