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Waymo has opened up about the self-driving vehicles undergoing trials at its secretive test facility in California’s Central Valley. On Monday, the subsidiary of Google LLC owner Alphabet Inc. held a press briefing at the former Air Force base where the operation …
Alphabet’s GV joins $8.5M investment into Reaction Commerce
Alphabet Inc. is betting that an emerging ecommerce startup founded four years ago can change the way companies sell online. Reaction Commerce Inc., the startup in question, today announced the completion of a $8.5 million funding round led by the search giant’s GV …
Yubico debuts a thumbnail-sized encryption module for data centers
Yubico AB is best known as a maker of USB security keys that help users verify their identities when logging into important applications, but its business focus isn’t limited to personal authentication alone. The Swedish company also offers an encryption module for data centers that …
OpenStack backup startup Trilio Data closes $5M funding round
AT&T Inc., Bloomberg L.P. and many other large enterprises rely on OpenStack to power their internal infrastructure. Such companies tend to have strict operational requirements when it comes to workload availability, a situation that Trilio Data Inc. is working to address. The four-year-old startup today announced that …
Report: Marketing analytics provider Cardlytics has secretly filed for an IPO
Cardlytics Inc., a low-key but influential provider of marketing data that has raised more than $200 million in funding, is planning to go public. That’s according to a report from TechCrunch published today that cited multiple sources as saying the Atlanta, Georgia-based firm …
Private equity firm Vista acquires well-funded cloud backup startup Datto
Against the backdrop of another major buyout in enterprise technology, Vista Equity Partners LLC on Thursday announced plans to acquire Datto Inc., a cloud-based data protection provider. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the price tag is likely quite considerable based …
Network monitoring provider Gigamon to be sold for $1.6B to activist investor
Elliott Management Corp. has a long history of successfully pressuring publicly traded tech companies that it considers undervalued to seek a buyout. Rarely, however, does the activist hedge fund play the role of acquirer. Thursday marked one of those occasions. Elliott announced that …
AMD seeks to one-up Intel with speedy new Ryzen laptop processors
The laptop processor market, which historically has been dominated by Intel Corp., is on track to become a lot more competitive. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today unveiled two new chips designed to challenge its larger rival’s position as the leading supplier of …
Amazon launches AI cloud computing services using Nvidia’s new Volta chips
In a bid to lure more companies to run their artificial intelligence projects on its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a family of AI-optimized instances described as the most powerful of their kind on the market. The new P3 …
Low-key cybersecurity provider Skybox Security grabs $150M in funding
Despite keeping a relatively low profile compared with some rivals, Skybox Security Inc. is a force to be reckoned with in the cybersecurity market. The San Jose, Calif.-based company today cemented its position by announcing the completion of a $150 million funding round. …