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Following post-IPO declines, Blue Apron CEO steps down
Blue Apron Holdings Inc. has replaced its chief executive officer barely six months after going public. The meal kit provider, a major force in the technology-fueled market dubbed the on-demand economy, announced on Thursday afternoon that Matt Salzberg had stepped down from the top post. Salzberg was one of the co-founders of Blue Apron, which sells ingredient ...
In a surprise move, Google hires top Intel exec Diane Bryant as new cloud COO
Google LLC has recruited one of Intel Corp.’s top executives to help lead its cloud business. The search giant announced today that Diane Bryant (pictured), a 25-year veteran of the chip maker, is coming aboard as the chief operating officer of Google Cloud. Bryant was perhaps the most prominent female executive at Intel, having most recently ...
JPMorgan co-leads $25M round into threat detection startup ReversingLabs
As companies deploy new cyberdefenses to fend off attacks, hackers are adapting their methods. Malware is being camouflaged in increasingly sophisticated ways to avoid detection by breach prevention systems. Tackling this threat is the main focus of Boston-based ReversingLabs Inc., which today announced the completion of a $25 million funding round led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. ...
Nvidia and Wells Fargo lead $40M round into AI startup H2O.ai
H2O.ai Inc., a Mountain View, California-based maker of artificial intelligence development software, today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding from a consortium led by graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. The investment brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million. H2O will use the capital to widen the ...
Uptake raises a hefty $117M to tap data from industrial machines
Uptake Technologies Inc., a predictive analytics startup competing with the likes of General Electric Co., today announced that it has closed a hefty $117 million investment led by asset management giant Baillie Gifford & Co. The firm was joined by returning backers Revolution Growth and GreatPoint Ventures. Uptake will use the capital to widen the ...
Intel and Warner Bros. to deliver ‘immersive experiences’ in self-driving cars
Intel Corp. has enlisted a new and rather unexpected ally in its effort to win the nascent autonomous vehicle market. Brian Krzanich, the chip maker’s chief executive, today announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. to lay the groundwork for providing “immersive experiences” in self-driving cars. The companies will develop ways to stream augmented and ...
Microsoft plans a multibillion-dollar overhaul of its Redmond headquarters
Microsoft Corp. has embarked on yet another ambitious project, this time not in the public cloud or some other technology field but an altogether different area: real estate. The company today revealed plans to launch a multibillion-dollar overhaul of its headquarters in the Seattle suburb of Redmond. Expected to take between five to seven years, the ...
Seebo raises $8M to bring traditional hardware into the ‘internet of things’
The “internet of things” continues to grow rapidly as everything from industrial equipment to common household appliances get brought into the cloud. Seebo Interactive Ltd., an emerging software provider based in Tel Aviv, may help accelerate the trend even further. The startup today announced that it has raised $8 million in funding for its namesake platform, which ...
Snowflake’s new data loading service aims to speed up analytics
Snowflake Computing Inc. has a new service that it says can enable companies to act upon new business information faster. Unveiled this morning, Snowpipe is accessible from within the startup’s cloud-based data warehouse and provides the ability to automatically ingest updates as they come in. Normally, analyzing information in real-time requires setting up complicated workflows ...
Microsoft’s experimental new Sets interface could change Windows 10
Juggling several windows at once can be a hassle, especially when a user needs to return to the same web pages and documents multiple times for something like a business project. Microsoft Corp. will soon begin testing a feature that could do away with this challenge, transforming the Windows 10 experience in the process. The capability is called Sets and ...