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VR optimism helps game engine maker Unity raise $400M in private equity

By Eric David May 24, 2017

Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of the video game industry’s most popular third-party game engine, has raised an impressive $400 million in funding from private equity firm Silver Lake. According to the Wall Street Journal, Unity’s…

Emerging Tech

Report: SoftBank has bought a $4B stake in Nvidia

By Maria Deutscher May 24, 2017

SoftBank Group Corp. is building up quite the investment portfolio. A Bloomberg report published today cited anonymous sources as saying that the Japanese telecommunications giant has quietly acquired 4.9 percent of Nvidia Corp.’s stock,…

Apps

Smartsheet raises $52.1M to automate collaboration in the enterprise

By Mike Wheatley May 24, 2017

Collaboration software supplier Smartsheet Inc. today announced it has raised $52.1 million in a Series F funding round led by existing investor Insight Venture Partners. The money will be used to accelerate Smartsheet’s investments in…

Big Data

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

By Paul Gillin May 24, 2017

The red-hot concept of big data as a service is getting a boost from no less than three major companies this week as Cloudera Inc., DataStax Inc. and IBM Corp. all roll out new…

Emerging Tech

Here’s the new Microsoft Surface Pro: better battery life, LTE model and upgraded pen

By Collen Kriel May 24, 2017

After much anticipation and plenty of rumors, Microsoft Corp. has finally announced the successor to the Surface Pro 4, which was released in October 2015. Announced at its event in Shanghai Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the…

Emerging Tech

Harvesting kinetic energy from walking may be the future of authentication

By Duncan Riley May 24, 2017

Newly published research has found that it may be possible to use kinetic energy — that is, the unique signature created by energy created by the body when a person is walking — for…

Emerging Tech

Bank-backed blockchain development consortium R3 raises $107M

By Duncan Riley May 23, 2017

Blockchain development consortium R3 CEV LLC has raised $107 million as part of an initial two tranches of a Series A funding. The investors are a veritable Who’s Who of financial institutions, including Bank of…

Apps

Uber will pay up to $45 million to reverse its underpayment of New York drivers

By James Farrell May 23, 2017

Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in New York City will be getting their holiday bonuses early this year in the sum of about $900 each, a consequence of the ride-hailing giant underpaying them for two…

Infra

New Open19 Foundation aims to standardize data center and edge platform designs

By Mike Wheatley May 23, 2017

The world’s largest tech companies are known for competing aggressively against one another in their efforts to win over customers, but they’re also known to collaborate when it suits them, such as when it…

Emerging Tech

This company has released a browser to deliver a decentralized Internet

By Duncan Riley May 23, 2017

While it’s said that art usually imitates life, sometimes life can imitate art. Fans of HBO’s hilarious “Silicon Valley” television series would know that this season has seen character Richard Hendrix attempting to build a decentralized…

the latest

VR optimism helps game engine maker Unity raise $400M in private equity

Report: SoftBank has bought a $4B stake in Nvidia

Smartsheet raises $52.1M to automate collaboration in the enterprise

Splash! Cloudera, DataStax and IBM all jump into big data as a service pool

Here’s the new Microsoft Surface Pro: better battery life, LTE model and upgraded pen

Harvesting kinetic energy from walking may be the future of authentication

Bank-backed blockchain development consortium R3 raises $107M

Uber will pay up to $45 million to reverse its underpayment of New York drivers

New Open19 Foundation aims to standardize data center and edge platform designs

This company has released a browser to deliver a decentralized Internet

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