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It apparently takes more than a cross-border legal battle and a hostile takeover attempt going on at the same time to throw a wrench in Qualcomm Technologies Inc.’s product development efforts. The chipmaker today unveiled a new LTE modem chip for mobile devices it said …
Microsoft commits $500M to expansive new startup program
Microsoft Corp. hopes to build the foundation for future partnerships and cloud revenue with an expansive new program focused on fostering budding tech firms. The initiative, which launched this morning under the name Microsoft for Startups, will be supported by a $500 million investment …
Dell to sell its Mozy cloud backup division to Carbonite in $145M deal
Dell Technologies Inc. is offloading another of the divisions that it absorbed through the $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. in 2016. Carbonite Inc., a publicly traded provider of cloud backup services, revealed on Tuesday that it has reached a deal with the …
HackerRank raises $30M to bring code directly into the recruiting process
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 with the support of several major investors. The …
Google hires former Samsung CTO Injong Rhee to lead IoT business
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, shared the news in a LinkedIn post on …
Report: Amazon is moving in on the medical supplies industry
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 the retail giant had invited them to multiple meetings …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …