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Symantec picks up cybersecurity startups Appthority and Javelin to bolster portfolio
Symantec Corp. recently revealed plans to trim its workforce by 8 percent as part of a cost-cutting initiative, but the company continues to invest in growth areas. The cybersecurity heavyweight today announced that it has acquired Appthority Inc. and Javelin Networks Inc., two venture-backed startups focused on enterprise network protection. Each deal will bolster a ...
Tesla in hot water again after SEC issues subpoena over Model 3 production figures
Tesla Inc. is once again under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s microscope. The automaker said in a regulatory filing today that the agency is investigating projections that it had made about the production of its Model 3 sedan. The development comes only weeks after Tesla and its high-profile Chief Executive Elon Musk (pictured) settled fraud charges ...
Alibaba posts mixed earnings, lowers guidance as revenue growth slows
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. continues to expand at breakneck speed in the e-commerce and cloud markets, but the company’s overall growth has dropped from previous quarters. China’s most valuable tech firm today posted revenues of 85.1 billion yuan, or $12.4 billion, in the quarter ended Sept. 30, which represents a 54 percent jump from last year. But analysts ...
Google reinforces its hosted Kubernetes service with new network security controls
Google LLC’s latest update to its public cloud aims to make the platform a more attractive destination for running software container projects. The update, released today, introduces three new networking controls for the platform’s Google Kubernetes Engine service. It’s a hosted implementation of the Kubernetes framework, which was released into open source by the search giant in 2014 ...
Open-source cloud tooling maker HashiCorp bags $100M round at $1.9B valuation
HashiCorp Inc., a startup that makes open-source tools for managing cloud environments and applications, today announced that it has reeled in a $100 million late-stage funding round led by IVP. IVP is one of two new backers to have participated in the investment, with the other being Bessemer Venture Partners. They were joined by returning ...
Greylock-backed Rockset launches with a serverless analytics platform for the cloud
Rockset Inc., a San Mateo, California-based data processing startup, today exited stealth mode with what it describes as a serverless analytics and search platform. The term “serverless” refers to a fast-rising category of cloud services that automate the low-level infrastructure management tasks administrators have historically performed manually. Rockset uses a somewhat broader definition of the term. ...
Google teams up with iRobot to give smart home devices spatial awareness
Google LLC has a new plan to make smart home devices more useful that involves using data from vacuums. The search giant today announced that it’s teaming up iRobot Corp., the company behind the hugely popular Roomba family of autonomous vacuum cleaners, in a partnership aimed at harnessing its devices to improve Google Assistant. Specifically, ...
Starship launches ‘world’s first’ commercial delivery service powered by robots
Robotics startup Starship Technologies Inc. has launched what it describes as the world’s first commercial pilot of an autonomous parcel delivery service. The service, dubbed Packages, became available today in the southern English town of Milton Keynes and will roll out to San Francisco by year’s end. Deliveries will be carried out by a fleet ...
Uber rolls out monthly subscription service in bid to boost growth, counter Lyft
In a bid to win over more users, Uber Technologies Inc. has started rolling out a subscription plan that offers significant fare discounts for a monthly fee. The service, dubbed Ride Pass, became available today in Los Angeles, Austin, Orlando, Denver and Miami. The launch comes two weeks after Lyft Inc. rolled out a subscription offering of ...
Apple debuts redesigned, faster iPad Pro, new MacBook Air and Mac Mini
The tablet market is shrinking, but Apple Inc. is faring quite well, shipping more than 400 million iPads to date including 44.2 million in the past year alone — more than the number of laptops sold by any other manufacturer during that period. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook made sure to drive home the tablet ...