Maria Deutscher, Author at SiliconANGLE

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HackerRank raises $30M to bring code directly into the recruiting process

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2018

HackerRank Inc. offers an unconventional technical recruiting platform that can best be described as a mix of a hiring tool and a code editor. The startup’s unique feature set has won over 3.4 million developers worldwide, along…

NEWS

Google hires former Samsung CTO Injong Rhee to lead IoT business

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2018

Google LLC has brought aboard Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s former top technologist to help advance its connected device strategy. Injong Rhee, who served as the South Korean hardware giant’s chief technology officer until December,…

NEWS

Report: Amazon is moving in on the medical supplies industry

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2018

Amazon.com Inc. has an ambitious new plan to bring the convenience of e-commerce to organizations in the healthcare sector, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. The publication cited hospital executives as saying that…

NEWS

Time-series database startup InfluxData reels in $35M from investors

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2018

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…

NEWS

Oracle to expand its cloud platform with ‘autonomous’ services, 12 new data centers

By Maria Deutscher Feb 12, 2018

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…

NEWS

Google’s TPU chips for AI are now available on its public cloud

By Maria Deutscher Feb 12, 2018

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…

NEWS

DataVisor raises $40M round led by Sequoia for its fraud-hunting AI

By Maria Deutscher Feb 12, 2018

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…

NEWS

Look out, FedEx and UPS: Amazon plans to launch its own delivery service soon

By Maria Deutscher Feb 9, 2018

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…

Infra

Broadcom to meet with Qualcomm after again sweetening $121B takeover bid

By Maria Deutscher Feb 9, 2018

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…

NEWS

Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO

By Maria Deutscher Feb 8, 2018

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…

Maria Deutscher

HackerRank raises $30M to bring code directly into the recruiting process

Google hires former Samsung CTO Injong Rhee to lead IoT business

Report: Amazon is moving in on the medical supplies industry

Time-series database startup InfluxData reels in $35M from investors

Oracle to expand its cloud platform with ‘autonomous’ services, 12 new data centers

Google’s TPU chips for AI are now available on its public cloud

DataVisor raises $40M round led by Sequoia for its fraud-hunting AI

Look out, FedEx and UPS: Amazon plans to launch its own delivery service soon

Broadcom to meet with Qualcomm after again sweetening $121B takeover bid

Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO

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