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Google reportedly acquires medical diagnosis startup Senosis Health
Google Inc. is expanding its presence in the medical technology market. According to a report Sunday by GeekWire, the search giant has acquired Senosis Health Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on harnessing mobile devices for medical diagnosis. It was founded by five healthcare and technology experts from the University of Washington. Among them is MacArthur Fellow Shwetak Patel, ...
WeWork acquires sales startup Unomy to boost enterprise push
WeWork Companies Inc. today inked an acquisition intended to expand its appeal to larger enterprise customers. The co-working giant is buying an Israeli market intelligence provider called Unomy Ltd. that focuses on helping salespeople find business prospects. Its service provides access to information about over 100 million professionals at some 17 million companies worldwide. Built-in search filters provide the ...
Intel and Toyota form new group to unlock connected-car data
Intel Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are teaming up to accelerate the rise of connected cars. The companies on Thursday announced the formation of the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium, a group that will focus on supporting the creation of cloud-based services for modern vehicles. That includes offerings such as the crowdsourced mapping platform Mobileye is developing ...
Lyft picks up two startups to fuel ride-hailing growth
Lyft Inc. is putting the pedal to the metal on its marketing efforts. This morning, the ride-sharing giant revealed that it has acquired two startups focused on user acquisition. The first is YesGraph Inc., a Y Combinator graduate that was founded in 2012 by former Dropbox Inc. executive Ivan Kirigin. It offers a cloud-based tool for ...
Report: Software container pioneer Docker to raise $75M at $1.3B valuation
Two years after its last funding round, it appears that Docker Inc. is looking to raise new capital. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the pioneer in software containers, which allow companies to encapsulate applications to run on multiple kinds of computers and operating systems, is expected to close a $75 million investment this ...
Amplitude, a provider of analytics for product teams, reels in $30M
Google Analytics and the other leading user monitoring tools on the market can provide a great deal of insight into how people interact with a service. But they’re mostly geared toward marketers, which makes it difficult for developers and designers to uncover the data they need to inform their work. Amplitude Inc. is working to ...
With Mobileye purchase done, Intel will deploy a fleet of 100 self-driving cars
Just a day after completing the acquisition of Mobileye N.V., Intel Corp. today officially kick-started its effort to take the group’s autonomous navigation technology mainstream. The chip maker this morning announced plans to build a self-driving car fleet for trial purposes that will include more than 100 vehicles once it reaches full strength. According to reports from earlier this year, ...
Google slashes cloud storage prices by up to 71 percent
Cost-efficiency is one of the main reasons why companies are increasingly choosing the cloud over hardware on their own premises. As a result, price competition has always been a key strategy for providers of infrastructure as a service. The latest example comes from Google Inc., which on Tuesday significantly lowered flash storage rates for customers of ...
Andreessen Horowitz bets on Netlify’s new vision for web development
Running a website doesn’t necessarily require a big-time investment, but for companies that wish to roll out enhancements continuously and minimize loading times, it can be a major undertaking. Netlify Inc. is working to reduce the amount of manual effort involved in the task. Today, the startup announced that it has secured a $12 million ...
Oryx Vision raises $50M to push its LiDAR system for self-driving cars
The autonomous vehicle market is only in its infancy, but there are already several players racing to develop sensory hardware for tomorrow’s self-driving cars. One of them is Oryx Vision Ltd., which announced today that it has raised $50 million in a bid to gain a lead. The Israeli startup is building what it describes as a “groundbreaking” LiDAR ...