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Airbnb expands its enterprise business with new offerings for companies
Since launching a business travel offering in 2014 to attract corporate customers, Airbnb Inc. has seen this part of its online rental marketplace grow to account for 15 percent of total bookings. Today, the hospitality juggernaut is moving to expand the operation even further. Airbnb has added three new offerings to Airbnb for Work that ...
BitSight seeks to ease cybersecurity planning with new forecasting service
Recent years have seen the rise of so-called security ratings providers that specialize in supplying enterprises with data about vulnerabilities in their infrastructure and supply chains. BitSight Technologies Inc., one of those providers, hopes to set itself apart with a new offering called BitSight Forecasting. Introduced today, the solution aims to help firms act upon ...
Munich Re to acquire IoT startup relayr for $300M as it moves deeper into tech
Munich Re Group has established a sizable presence in the startup ecosystem by backing emerging players across various growth segments. Now, the Germany-based global insurance giant is moving more directly into tech by acquiring one of its portfolio companies. Munich Re today announced plans to buy relayr Inc., a Boston-based provider of “internet of things” ...
Hot on the heels of Apple, Amazon’s market value hits $1 trillion for the first time
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. briefly passed $2,050.50 this morning, pushing the e-commerce giant’s market value to more than $1 trillion in a major milestone for the tech industry. The stock has since dropped back down to about $2,039. The late-morning stock surge gives Amazon the distinction of becoming the second-ever U.S. company to join the 13-figure ...
Growing its product lineup, Atlassian buys IT alerting startup OpsGenie for $295M
Atlassian Corp. today announced its latest acquisition and unveiled a new product that uses the technology it had obtained through the deal to help enterprises fix technical issues faster. The company on the other end of the deal is OpsGenie Inc., a venture-backed startup specializing in incident response. Its namesake platform lets information technology teams ...
UK fintech startup Funding Circle files for $388M IPO
Prominent financial technology startup Funding Circle Holdings Ltd. today filed for an initial public offering in its native U.K. with the goal of raising 300 million pounds, or $387.5 million. The IPO could give Funding Circle a valuation as high as 1.65 billion pounds, the equivalent of $2.13 billion. The filing comes amid rapid growth in ...
A year after release, Microsoft reverts Skype’s controversial redesign
With 300 million monthly users, Skype is one of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest assets in the consumer software market. The company is now taking the service back to its roots in a bid to address recent usability concerns. The update, announced Friday, undoes the main changes that Microsoft made to Skype as part of a controversial ...
Report says Alibaba halted U.S. cloud expansion, company denies change
Updated with Alibaba statement: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud business may be experiencing strong overall growth, but the company has apparently struggled to make inroads into the ever-important U.S. market. That’s according to a new report in The Information today that claimed the Chinese e-commerce giant is putting the brakes on its stateside infrastructure expansion plans. However, Alibaba issued ...
Qualcomm debuts new software to improve sound on mobile devices
Most of the core activities for which consumers use their handsets, from making calls to watching videos, involve audio. And a growing portion of that audio is being transmitted wirelessly to devices such as cordless headsets as more handset makers forgo the traditional headphone jack. Today, Qualcomm Inc. introduced software called aptX Adaptive that it ...
Google teams up with Harvard to predict earthquake aftershocks with AI
Earthquakes play out in phases. The first major tremor, or mainquake, unleashes the brunt of the tectonic forces below and is then followed by a series of aftershocks that are smaller yet can still seriously endanger buildings damaged by the initial movement. Google LLC and Harvard University hope to mitigate the threat posed by these aftershocks ...