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Transposit grabs $12.2M Series A funding to simplify API composition
Startup Transposit Corp. wants to solve developer’s headaches with its new application programming interface composition platform after raising $12.2 million in a new round of funding. Sutter Hill Ventures led the Series A round, with participation from SignalFire and Unusual Ventures. APIs can be thought of as a set of routines, protocols and tools for building ...
France shakes down foreign tech firms with a new 3% tax
France’s government is taking aim at big internet companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC and Facebook Inc. with a new 3 percent tax on their French revenues. The move is designed to prevent companies from using tax avoidance measures that allow them to pay taxes only in the EU country where they’re based, often ...
Apple to recruit 1,200 engineering staff at new San Diego facility
Apple Inc. today said it’s planning to hire 1,200 additional employees over the next three years to work at a planned new facility in San Diego, which is not coincidentally the home base of one of its main legal rivals, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The move follows an earlier announcement from Apple in December that it would ...
Google’s new Web Risk API protects apps from malicious URLs
Google LLC today added more security features to its cloud platform as it bids to stay one step ahead of cyberattackers who are constantly on the lookout for new targets to attack. The new features include the Web Risk application programming interface, which is a service for developers looking to provide safeguards within the applications ...
Clari updates its AI-powered sales platform
Artificial intelligence-powered sales software company Clari Inc. today extended its services with the launch of a new Connected Revenue Operations platform. The new platform is meant to align go-to-market operations such as sales, marketing and customer success in order to help enterprises automate their revenue operations. Clari’s original platform was designed to make the sales process easier ...
IBM launches a blockchain testing service for enterprises
IBM Corp.’s X-Force Red security team, which focuses on hacking software in order to discover and mitigate vulnerabilities, today launched a blockchain testing service. The new service is designed to help enterprises test and secure their private blockchains. Blockchains are essentially distributed ledgers or databases that use a peer-to-peer network to transfer information using “blocks” and computer ...
Report: Apple will have to wait until late 2020 to launch its first 5G iPhone
Apple Inc. could be forced to wait at least another year before it can launch a 5G version of its popular iPhone, according to a report in Bloomberg. Apple’s big problem is that it’s struggling to get its hands on the necessary components to build a 5G product. It’s likely going to have to wait ...
Apple acquires computer vision-related patents from failed startup Lighthouse AI
Apple Inc. could be looking for ways to implement home security features into its products after buying up a number of related patents from a failed artificial intelligence startup called Lighthouse AI Inc. IAM reported today that Apple acquired the patents sometime last year, but the details have only recently been published in the U.S. Patent ...
Comcast buys AI-based cybersecurity firm BluVector
Telecommunications giant Comcast Corp. announced at the RSA Security conference Monday it’s acquiring a cybersecurity startup called BluVector Inc. BluVector sells products that help enterprises to detect and analyze potential security threats to their information technology infrastructure. The company, which was spun off two years ago from the defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., uses artificial ...
Report: Huawei plans to sue US government over equipment sales ban
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is preparing to file a lawsuit against the U.S. government over a decision to ban it from seeking government contracts. The lawsuit relates to an addition to the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act that went into effect last year, the New York Times reported today. The updated act prevents U.S. government agencies ...