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While most of the tech industry’s attention was focused on the Consumer Electronics Show Monday, a startup called Attic Labs Inc. quietly made a big announcement: It has been bought by Salesforce.com Inc. in the cloud giant’s first acquisition of the year. …
Iconiq Capital co-leads $58M round into data governance provider Collibra
Collibra Corp.’s effort to streamline the way enterprises manage their vast troves of information has received a big boost from the venture capital community. The data governance provider today announced the completion of a $58 million investment, its fourth round so far, led by Battery Ventures …
Nvidia unveils new self-driving car tech, Uber partnership at CES
As the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show kicked off late Sunday, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang (pictured) took the stage to announce a slew of updates from the chipmaker’s autonomous vehicle group. The main highlight was the introduction of two new software …
IBM and Comcast to back a new blockchain startup fund
IBM Corp. and Comcast Corp. may hail from two vastly different parts of the technology world, but they apparently share a common interest in blockchain software. Bloomberg reported today that the two companies will become the biggest backers of a new fund …
With new developer tools, Amazon is bringing Alexa to wearables
Amazon.com Inc. this morning announced a new set of development tools aimed at paving the way for Alexa to be brought to yet another major product category: wearables. Called the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit, the bundle is a lightweight alternative to the Device Software …
Google’s new ‘Preemptible GPUs’ offer a cheaper way to run AI in the cloud
Google LLC is introducing what it says is a more affordable way for organizations to run artificial intelligence projects in the public cloud. The company today bolstered its infrastructure-as-a-service platform with the addition of Preemptible GPUs, which are on-demand graphics processing units …
WordPress hosting provider WP Engine lands $250M round led by Silver Lake
Every day, 5 percent of Internet users visit at least one website powered by WP Engine Inc., a hosting provider that today announced that it has completed a $250 million funding round to capture an even bigger slice of the online landscape. The …
Gartner: Samsung overtakes Intel as the world’s top semiconductor maker
Intel Corp.’s more than two-decade streak as the largest semiconductor maker in the world has ended, according to a preliminary market estimate by Gartner Inc. released today. The research firm reports that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. secured the top spot in 2017 by …
Report: Spotify quietly files paperwork for a direct public offering
Spotify Ltd. has taken a big step forward in its unusual, and potentially risky, journey to becoming a publicly traded company. That’s according to a new report today in Axios, which cited several sources as saying the music streaming giant had confidentially filed documents …
Microsoft to acquire hybrid cloud specialist Avere Systems
Microsoft Corp. this morning announced that it has inked an agreement to acquire Avere Systems Inc., a hybrid cloud provider focused on helping enterprises better use cloud infrastructure. Pittsburgh-based Avere sells software and appliances that enable companies to link their on-premises hardware …