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ThinCI raises $65M round for its AI chips
A relatively unknown artificial intelligence-focused semiconductor startup called ThinCI Inc. is raising eyebrows today after landing a “significantly oversubscribed” Series C funding round worth $65 million. The round was led by previous investor Denso Corp., a maker of automotive components and its subsidiary NSITEXE Inc., a developer of semiconductor components enabling automated driving, as well ...
Baidu and Intel team up to deliver new AI services in China
Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a number of artificial intelligence services that leverage the chipmaker’s hardware for superior performance. Outlined at the Baidu 2018 ABC Summit in Shanghai Tuesday, the new applications are being offered by Baidu Cloud and cover financial services, shipping, video content detection and data storage. ...
Severe weather takes down Microsoft’s Azure cloud services in Texas
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure public cloud has been bent out of shape by a real cloud, as the company blamed “severe weather” for an outage that took several services offline for users in the U.S. on Tuesday. Microsoft said its South Central U.S. data center located in Texas was hit by a thunder and lightning storm ...
Coupa’s stock soars as it acquires DCR Workforce and beats earnings forecast
Updated: Business spending management company Coupa Software Inc. made a useful acquisition today in the shape of DCR Workforce Inc., a move that was announced during its second-quarter earnings call. DCR Workforce is a nice fit for Coupa because it operates within the same realm, providing contingent workforce management and services procurement software for larger enterprises ...
Arcadia Data aims new search tool at making it easier to find big-data insights
Business intelligence software provider Arcadia Data Inc. is making it easier to query data sets with a new Google-like search tool released today that provides quick insights in the form of easy-to-consume data visualizations. Arcadia Data’s business intelligence platform works directly on unstructured and semistructured data that’s stored in massive “data lakes,” which are centralized ...
HubSpot moves the bulk of its IT infrastructure to Amazon’s cloud
Marketing software firm HubSpot Inc. gave Amazon Web Services Inc. a big thumbs up today, announcing it has chosen the company as is its preferred public cloud provider. Amazon, which makes a habit of showcasing these kinds of big-name customer wins, said HubSpot will be shifting its “core products,” including HubSpot CRM, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub ...
Data Artisans enables more complex transactions on streaming data
Big-data company data Artisans GmbH is enabling online transaction processing on streaming data through its commercialized version of the Apache Flink platform. Apache Flink is an open source stream processing framework that was created to process rapid flows of real-time data, such as that produced by credit card activity monitoring, machine learning and business intelligence. ...
Baidu has created a ‘no code’ platform to make building AI models easier
Hoping to make up ground in the hotly contested artificial intelligence battleground, Chinese Internet giant Baidu Inc. is releasing a tool that allows businesses to create and deploy AI models without coding skills. Announced Saturday, EZDL is a “no-code platform to build custom machine learning models,” designed with ease of use and security in mind, ...
Updated: Japan chipmaker Renesas acquires IDT for $6.7B
Updated: Japanese semiconductor firm Renesas Electronics Corp., which specializes in making computer chips for self-driving cars, this weekend acknowledged reports that it’s considering acquiring the U.S. firm Integrated Device Technology Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to $6 billion. The proposed deal, first reported by the Nikkei business news service Saturday, would ...
OpenStack’s new Rocky release enables bare-metal clouds and serverless functions
The OpenStack Foundation today upgraded its cloud infrastructure platform with new capabilities for operators of both private and public clouds. The OpenStack Rocky release comes with improvements to the “Ironic” bare metal provisioning service and updates that make it easier to migrate to newer versions of the platform. It also adds support for the so-called “serverless” functionality that’s ...