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Cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. is in a confident mood after landing a $70 million round of financing. The Series D round, led by new investor Quadrille Capital, with participation from existing investors FutureFund, New Enterprise Associates, Norwest and SingTel Innov8, brings its …
Nvidia spins up its GPUs to accelerate AI-driven medical diagnosis and drug discovery
Nvidia Corp. reckons artificial intelligence has evolved to the point where it can be reliably used to help diagnose diseases and discover new drugs. To enable these new capabilities, the maker of graphics processing unit chips and computers, today announced it’s collaborating …
Samsung is mass-producing 5G modem chips, but it won’t sell them to Apple
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it has finally begun mass-producing 5G modem chipsets to be used in the next generation of mobile devices. Samsung’s 5G modems are extremely important for the company, which besides being the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer …
AWS to boost its presence in Asia with new Indonesia cloud region
Amazon Web Services Inc. is building a new cloud region in Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta as it looks to beef up its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The public cloud computing giant revealed its plans Wednesday, saying the new facility will open …
LinkedIn’s newly open-sourced Avro2TF preps data for TensorFlow
LinkedIn Corp. Thursday donated yet another internally built tool to the open-source community: a conversion tool that transforms data from Apache Spark into a format that can easily be consumed by TensorFlow for machine learning purposes. TensorFlow is one of the most popular …
Report: Apple’s 5G iPhone could be delayed until 2021 as Intel misses deadlines
Apple Inc. could be forced to delay its 5G iPhone plans beyond 2020 as its main component supplier Intel Corp. looks like it will be unable to deliver the necessary modems on time. A report from Fast Company, citing a person with …
IDC: Converged infrastructure systems sales top $4.15B
It’s apparent from International Data Corp. updated Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker released Wednesday that enterprises still have a healthy appetite for converged infrastructure systems of all shapes and sizes. Total worldwide spending on converged infrastructure grew 14.8 percent, to $4.15 billion, in the …
Google Drive integrates DocuSign, K2 and Nintex to speed up business workflows
Google LLC is integrating a number of tools with its cloud storage service Google Drive to make it easier for users to find information and take certain actions without leaving the platform. “As more and more companies migrate their content to the …
IP infringement detection firm Red Points raises $38M
Spanish company Red Points Solutions S.L.’s $38 million funding round highlights a growing interest from companies looking to protect their intellectual property online. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investors Northzone, Mangrove, Eight …
Deep learning startup Run:AI exits stealth with $13M funding
Israeli artificial intelligence startup Run:AI wants to speed up the way we train deep learning models after exiting stealth mode with $13 million in its war chest. The money comes from a $10 million Series A round of financing announced today. It …