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Spotify Technology SA wants regulators to investigate the rules that Apple Inc. sets for outside apps on the App Store. The music streaming provider, whose service competes with Apple Music, today filed an antitrust complaint against the iPhone maker in Europe over …
Google debuts miniaturized, real-time speech recognition AI on Pixel phones
Google LLC has developed a miniaturized neural network that is small and efficient enough to perform speech recognition, a normally hardware-intensive task, directly on mobile devices. The technology debuted today on the company’s Pixel smartphones. Google has rolled it out to its Gboard …
Uber settles two long-running driver lawsuits for $20M
Uber Technologies Inc. has settled a pair of lawsuits challenging its driver classification policy, clearing a potential point of concern ahead of its upcoming initial public offering. The agreement, which was filed late Monday and hit the news cycle this morning, concludes six years …
Cloudflare raises fresh $150M round, likely delaying rumored IPO
After a four-year break from fundraising, Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has secured $150 million in fresh capital to boost its growth efforts. The round was led by Franklin Resources Inc., a California investment firm with about $750 billion in assets …
Intel launches new technology standard to link CPUs with accelerator chips
Intel Corp. today introduced a new interconnect technology aimed at enabling servers to make better use of graphics cards, field-programmable gate arrays and other accelerator chips optimized for specific workloads. The Compute Express Link, or CXL, is envisioned as an industry standard …
Confirming rumors, Nvidia agrees to acquire Mellanox in landmark $6.9B deal
Confirming recent industry chatter about its acquisition plans, Nvidia Corp. today announced that it has inked a deal to buy data center networking specialist Mellanox Technologies Ltd. for $6.9 billion. The all-cash transaction is the chipmaker’s largest to date by a wide …
In new regulatory plan, Elizabeth Warren proposes to break up tech giants
Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing to impose new regulations on the tech industry that would require major players such as Google LLC to split off key parts of their business. Warren, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, outlined the plan in a Medium …
Report: Apple’s AR headset could enter production this year, will connect to iPhones
Apple Inc.’s long-rumored augmented reality headset may hit the market much sooner than previously believed. Influential mobile industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today projected that the device will enter mass production in the fourth quarter or by the second quarter of 2020 at the …
Airbnb acquires heavily funded hotel booking startup HotelTonight
Airbnb Inc. is expanding its accommodation booking platform with the acquisition of Hotel Tonight Inc., a major competitor that offers last-minute deals on hotel rooms. The financial terms of the transaction, which was announced today, weren’t disclosed. But it’s a fair bet that …
NSA open-sources Ghidra, a tool for reverse-engineering malware
The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco draws thousands of cybersecurity experts from around the world, along with numerous corporate exhibitors that use the opportunity to spotlight their newest products. This year’s event, which kicked off on Wednesday, saw the National Security …