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Time-series database startup InfluxData reels in $35M from investors
InfluxData Inc., a San Francisco-based startup whose database is used by companies such as IBM Corp. to analyze their operational information, has secured $35 million in fresh funding. Announced today, the cash infusion comes less than a year and a half after InfluxData raised $16 million from a consortium headed by Battery Ventures. The venture capital ...
Oracle to expand its cloud platform with ‘autonomous’ services, 12 new data centers
The services in Oracle Corp.’s cloud platform will soon tune and patch themselves. That’s thanks to a push announced by the company today to extend the technology behind its recently introduced “autonomous” relational database service to the rest of the offerings in the lineup. Oracle said specialized machine learning models optimize performance, implement updates as ...
Google’s TPU chips for AI are now available on its public cloud
Google LLC today bolstered its public cloud platform with the addition of Tensor Processing Units, an internally designed chip series specifically built to power artificial intelligence workloads. A single TPU (pictured) consists of four application-specific integrated circuits paired with 64 gigabytes of “ultrahigh-bandwidth” memory. The combined unit can provide up to 180 teraflops, or a ...
DataVisor raises $40M round led by Sequoia for its fraud-hunting AI
On Pinterest and Yelp, specialized machine learning algorithms scan user activity for signs of malicious behavior such as deceptive review practices. The algorithms are powered by a system from a Mountain View, California-based startup called DataVisor Inc. that today announced it has closed a $40 million round of funding. Sequoia Capital’s Chinese arm led the ...
Look out, FedEx and UPS: Amazon plans to launch its own delivery service soon
Amazon.com Inc. is finally gearing up to launch its long-rumored push to become a shipping provider. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report published this morning, which claims the retail giant plans to roll out a new package delivery service in the coming weeks. The operation is set run under the brand “Shipping with ...
Broadcom to meet with Qualcomm after again sweetening $121B takeover bid
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. rejected Broadcom Ltd.’s record-breaking $121 billion takeover bid late Thursday in the second such rebuff since the latter company made its initial offer last year. But although the proposal was shot down, it seemed to have achieved Broadcom’s reported goal of bringing the chipmaker to the negotiating table. In conjunction with the rejection ...
Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO
Hot on the heels of Uber Technologies Inc. hiring its first chief operating officer, rival Lyft Inc. today announced the appointment of a top Tesla Inc. executive to the same position. Jon McNeill is coming aboard after a more than two-year stint as the president of global sales and service at Elon Musk’s carmaker. He ...
LogMeIn to acquire internet voice provider Jive Communications for $342M
Cloud communications and information technology giant LogMeIn Inc. today announced plans to acquire Jive Communications Inc., a provider of managed internet voice services based out of Utah, to cement its position in a key market. The deal is valued at $342 million and will bolster LogMeIn’s existing communications business. The division consists in large part of ...
Adobe debuts new AI features for creating more compelling web content
Adobe Systems Inc. is applying artificial intelligence to new areas, for example recently infusing machine learning into Photoshop to save time for designers. Today, it’s bringing similar automation features to Experience Manager, its marketing content platform for enterprises, in an effort to help companies more easily create and target marketing content. “Everyone’s becoming a creator,” Elliot Sedegah, ...
Akamai lays off 5% of workforce following activist investor pressure
Content delivery giant Akamai Technologies Inc. has laid off 400 employees, or 5 percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to streamline operations. Akamai Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton revealed the move during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday night. He said the restructuring initiative, which wrapped up this week, was originally launched ...