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Confluent lands $250M in late-stage funding, raising its valuation to $4.5 billion
Confluent Inc. announced today it has raised $250 million in a late-stage funding round led by Coatue Management. The Series E round doubles the open-source Apache Kafka startup’s total funding to $456 million and places the company’s estimated valuation at $4.5 billion. The Confluent platform provides a paid distribution of Kafka that extends the core feature set by ...
Ant Financial launches OpenChain blockchain platform for small business developers
Chinese financial technology firm Ant Financial announced Friday that its OpenChain distributed ledger blockchain platform is now open to small business developers to help with the creation of distributed apps. Ant Financial, formerly known as Alipay, is the financial technology arm of Chinese multinational e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and is estimated to be ...
AirAsia launches transparent tracking blockchain network Freightchain for air cargo
AirAsia Group Bhd’s logistics arm Teleport announced Thursday the launch of Freightchain, a digital network for transparently confirming and tracking air cargo based on distributed ledger blockchain technology. Shippers and freight forwarders can now book and confirm any of AirAsia’s 247 aircraft to carry cargo using Freightchain without the need for time-consuming go-betweens, sales and ...
CTERA launches DevOps toolset for global-scale file delivery to enable remote work
CTERA Networks Ltd., a cloud-driven enterprise secure file services platform, today announced the release of DevOps tools designed to allow businesses to deliver files securely across the world to enable easier remote work and support development and operations teams. Starting today, the CTERA Software Development Kit for Python and the CTERA Ansible Collection will enable ...
Bizagi launches CoronaPass COVID-19 antibody testing certification for essential workers
Business process management and automation platform Bizagi announced today the launch of CoronaPass, a digital solution that will offer governments, healthcare organizations and corporations a way for people to demonstrate immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic based on the results of rapidly expanding antibody testing across the globe. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, ...
HTC Exodus 1 smartphones will be able to mine Monero using Midas Labs app
Smartphone maker HTC Corp. is joining with Midas Labs, a designer of programmable blockchain mining chips, to develop a native cryptocurrency mining app for its Exodus 1 phone for the privacy-focused Monero currency. The announcement, detailed in Forbes Friday, outlined the app named DeMiner, which is expected to launch on the phone during the second quarter ...
Intel and Georgia Tech join DARPA program to thwart attacks against machine learning
Intel Corp. and Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that they’ll lead a program team for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop defenses against attacks and trickery directed at artificial intelligence systems. Intel will be the prime contractor for the four-year, multimillion-dollar joint effort known as Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence Robustness against Deception, or ...
Italy’s top news org turns to blockchain to ensure trust in COVID-19 reporting
Italy’s top news reporting agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata announced Monday the development of a unique news tracking system based on distributed ledger blockchain technology in collaboration with EY Advisory S.p.A., part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd. ANSA is a leading Italian news agency that represents 24 publishers of major newspapers across Italy. The agencies ...
CircleCI closes $100M funding round to expand enterprise DevOps and continuous delivery tools
Circle Internet Services Inc., a DevOps software platform provider for continuous integration and delivery, today announced the company has closed a late-stage $100 million funding round led by IVP and Sapphire Ventures. To date, CircleCI has raised $215 million in total funding since its founding in 2011, including this Series E round. During that time, ...
ConsenSys Health announces COVID-19 virtual hackathon as blockchain devs tackle pandemic
ConsenSys Health, a healthcare-related spinoff of the distributed ledger blockchain solutions company ConsenSys, announced today the “Stop COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon” to start April 13 and run until May 11. Sponsors for this hackathon include Gitcoin, Hyperledger, ConsenSys, One Million Developers and OpenMined, which will provide support by using blockchain and other emerging technologies to improve data access for researchers, ...