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Google Cloud sharpens its focus on open-source software security, zero trust, cloud governance and more
Google Cloud said today it’s doubling down on its concept of “Invisible Security” with the launch of an array of new security services. They’re aimed at helping enterprise customers to secure their software supply chains, adopt zero-trust security architectures, improve cloud governance and transform their security operations. “We’re wanting to package the Google magic and ...
Armed with $25M, Pangea Cyber debuts embedded security APIs for cloud-native app builders
Embedded security services provider Pangea Cyber Corp. is opening the doors to its business, emerging from stealth mode today armed with $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures. Pangea has developed what it says is a comprehensive portfolio of application programming interface-based security services that can be accessed via a ...
Lightbend launches Kalix application layer to simplify serverless and cloud-native development
Lightbend Inc. is making it easier for developers to build cloud-native applications with the launch today of Kalix, a new platform-as-a-service that serves as a unifying application layer in concert with the underlying serverless cloud infrastructure of modern applications. Lightbend, which has until now focused on tools that make serverless infrastructure viable for different kinds ...
Real-time analytics database firm Imply Data bags $100M in late-stage funding
Analytics-focused database startup Imply Data Inc. has reached “unicorn” status after closing on a $100 million late-stage round of funding that brings its value north of $1 billion. Today’s Series D round was led by new investor Thoma Bravo, with participation from OMERS Growth Equity and existing backers Bessemer Venture Funds, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla ...
Rigetti’s quantum computing roadmap gets pushed back amid supply crunch and higher costs
Quantum computing company Rigetti Computing Inc. revealed today that it’s pushing back by a year its plans to deliver on 1,000-qubit and 4,000-qubit systems. The company said in an updated technology roadmap that it will deliver a single-chip 84-qubit machine by next year, before launching a 1,000-qubit system in 2025 and a 4,000-qubit system in ...
Kubernetes startup Akuity raises $20M to take Argo Project to the next level
Kubernetes application delivery platform startup Akuity Inc. said today it has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding led by Lead Edge Capital and existing investor Decibel Partners. Akuity is a startup building developer tools that aim to scale the open-source Argo Project, which makes it easier to build and run applications ...
New Relic’s stock slips as it delivers wider-than-expected loss
Shares of the observability company New Relic Inc. fell in after-hours trading today after it delivered fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results that missed expectations and followed up with weak guidance. The San Francisco-based company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 24 cents per share, amounting to a net loss of $55.5 ...
Aiven raises $210M in late-stage funding to expand its open-source expertise
Open-source software champion Aiven Ltd. said today it has closed on a bumper $210 million Series D round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $420 million, at a valuation of more than $3 billion. Today’s late-stage round was led by Eurazeo, and joined by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock plus existing investors ...
Topping a raft of search improvements, Google Translate adds support for 24 more languages
Armed with a new artificial intelligence model, Google LLC is adding 24 more languages to its Google Translate app. The new supported languages, announced at the search giant’s I/O developer conference today, include dialects that are spoken by more than 300 million people across the world, the company said in a blog post. The most ...
Google Maps is getting an ‘Immersive View’ that’s like flying a low-altitude drone
Google Maps is getting a new feature called Immersive View that lets users experience a kind of drone-level aerial view of some of the world’s best-known cities. Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said during his Google I/O 2022 keynote today that Immersive View relies on “billions of photos” and processes them with artificial intelligence ...
