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SoftBank leads $800M in funding for real-estate unicorns Compass and Opendoor
SoftBank Group Corp. is spending $800 million to buy a slice of the rapidly growing real-estate technology market. The Japanese tech giant today was named as the lead backer of two separate $400 million funding rounds into startups Compass Inc. and Open Door Labs Inc., which are working to redefine how properties are sold in ...
Uber settles states’ investigation of 2016 data breach and coverup for $148M
Uber Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has settled a multistate probe into a 2016 data breach that compromised 57 million of its users. The company has agreed to pay $148 million as part of a deal encompassing all 50 states and Washington D.C., a fine that represents the biggest ever of its kind. The settlement comes 11 months ...
Arm introduces new 7-nanometer chip series for autonomous vehicles
Arm Ltd. claims that chips based on its designs power 85 percent of vehicle infotainment units and 65 percent of driver-assistance systems. Today, the company is moving to grow its presence in the auto market even further with an eye to self-driving vehicles. Arm has pulled back the curtains on a new chip series specifically ...
Google and Microsoft team up with Cloudflare to slash network costs in the cloud
Cloudflare Inc. is joining forces with Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies to reduce the cost of network resources in the public cloud. The firms will pursue the effort under the banner of a group named the Bandwidth Alliance that formally launched today. Participating cloud providers will cut or waive the fees they charge ...
Application monitoring startup Instana raises $30M round backed by Meritech, Accel
Two prominent venture capital firms are betting that Instana Inc., a rising player in the application monitoring market, can get ahead of the competition. The startup today announced that it has secured a $30 million funding round led by early Facebook Inc. investor Meritech Capital Partners with the participation of Accel. The investment brings Instana’s ...
Data.world reels in $12M round to add collaboration to data science
Enterprise analytics projects usually involve multiple users with varying levels of technical expertise, often from different parts of the company. Data.world Inc. offers a platform where those workers can collaborate on the information repositories that sit at the core of a project. The three-year-old startup has raised more than $44 million in funding to date, ...
Salesforce and AWS connect their clouds with new data integrations
Salesforce.com Inc. is teaming up with Amazon Web Services Inc. to launch new features that will make it easier to use their cloud platforms together, primarily by simplifying the task of moving data between them. The alliance was announced this morning, barely 24 hours after Microsoft Corp. struck a similar partnership with Adobe Systems Inc. ...
Slack acquires email management startup Astro to unify chat and email
As part of its quest to replace email, Slack Technologies Inc. is embracing it. The team chat giant today revealed that it has acquired Astro Technology Inc., a three-year-old email management startup based in San Francisco. Astro launched out of stealth mode in 2017 with an email client that featured a built-in virtual assistant, and later ...
At Ignite 2018, Microsoft expands enterprise vision with new AI and data services
Hoping to cement its position with enterprise developers and information technology staff as it expands into the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today unleashed a torrent of new products and features at its Ignite 2018 conference in Florida. In conjunction with Chief Executive Satya Nadella’s opening keynote this morning, the company unveiled dozens of updates spanning just ...
Alphabet leads $185M funding round for trucking startup Convoy
Convoy Inc., a startup competing with Uber Technologies Inc. in the $700 billion trucking market, today divulged that it has landed a $185 million funding round. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund led the investment. It was joined by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and hedge fund Lone Pine Capital, as well as unnamed returning investors. Convoy ...