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Beating Uber to the punch, Lyft files for initial stock offering
Lyft Inc. has filed for an initial public offering, gaining an early advantage over rival Uber Technologies Inc. in their unofficial race to hit the stock market. The ride-hailing provider announced the move today but shared few specifics. Lyft has yet to determine the number of shares that will be sold and the target price ...
LightStep picks up $41M for its container-friendly monitoring platform
LightStep Inc., an application monitoring startup founded by two former Google LLC engineers, today announced that it has raised a $41 million funding round to fuel its growth. Uber Technologies Inc. backer Altimeter Capital led the investment with participation from Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures and others. The round, LightStep’s third to date, brings its total ...
Waymo finally launches its commercial self-driving taxi service
A year and a half after its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans started picking up test riders in Arizona, Waymo LLC is today making the vehicles available through a ride-hailing service. Waymo One won’t compete with Uber Technologies Inc. anytime soon. Initially, the service will be open to only a few hundred of the users who ...
Qualcomm debuts new flagship Snapdragon chip, ultrasonic fingerprint sensor
Qualcomm Inc., whose Snapdragon chip series powers most of the world’s high-end Android devices, has unveiled a new iteration of the processor and a novel fingerprint sensor that works with sound waves. The company debuted the products at an event in Hawaii late Tuesday. The new Snapdragon 855 processor will take over as the company’s flagship mobile ...
Tibco acquires master data management provider Orchestra Networks
Tibco Software Inc. today announced that it has acquired Orchestra Networks SA, a data management provider focused on helping enterprises get their vast, and often fragmented, information troves under control. The acquisition is the latest in a series of deals struck by the company over the past few quarters. Previously, Tibco picked up application integration provider ...
Reports: Microsoft will launch a new browser based on Google code
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly developing a replacement for its Edge browser that will incorporate elements from Chromium, the open-source engine on which Chrome is based. The Chromium code base is maintained by a group of Google LLC engineers and shares most of its features with the consumer version. It was recently reported that Microsoft engineers had started ...
DeepMind builds an AI that can predict how proteins fold
Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind artificial intelligence division has racked up another scientific achievement. The group this morning revealed that it has built an AI system capable of taking on what is considered to be one of the biggest challenges in biology today: simulating the shape of proteins. The system, dubbed AlphaFold, took no less than two ...
Nvidia targets AI developers and data scientists with new Titan RTX desktop GPU
Nvidia Corp.’s Titan family of graphics processing units includes products for both consumers and power users such as artificial intelligence developers. The beefy new Titan RTX desktop card that the company unveiled today is aimed squarely at the latter audience. With a retail price of $2,499, the GPU will cost more than twice as much ...
AI chip startup Wave Computing raises $86M more to challenge Nvidia
Heavily funded semiconductor startup Wave Computing Inc. has raised an additional $86 million to pursue its goal of taking on Nvidia Corp. in the growing market for artificial intelligence chips. The round, announced on Thursday, was led by investment firm Oakland Corp. with participation from existing investors. It bumps Wave Computing’s total raised past the ...
Massive Marriott data breach exposes 500M customers’ information
Marriott International Inc., the world’s largest hotel chain, has suffered a massive data breach believed to affect some 500 million customers. The company disclosed the intrusion in a regulatory filing today. Marriott said hackers broke into a guest database belonging to its Starwood subsidiary in 2014, when the group was still a separate company, and ...