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TPG Growth leads $70M round into network security startup Expanse
A group of prominent investors is betting that San Francisco-based Expanse Inc. can establish itself as a major player in the cybersecurity market. The startup, formerly known as Qadium, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by private equity heavyweight TPG Growth. More than a half-dozen other backers joined in as ...
Microsoft launches first previews of its Chromium-based Edge browser
Microsoft Corp. today previewed the next major iteration of its Edge browser, which will be based on the same engine as Google LLC’s Chrome. Microsoft first revealed the effort to rebuild Edge in December, saying the initiative will see the browser decoupled from Windows 10. The company plans to make it available on older versions of the ...
Ahead of IPO, Pinterest sets price target below last valuation
Pinterest Inc. may not hit the stock market at the valuation its executives and investors had hoped for. The company, whose scrapbooking-focused social network has more than 250 million users worldwide, will debut on the New York Stock Exchange next week. Pinterest disclosed in a regulatory filing today that it plans to sell 75 million ...
Report: Apple Music has vaulted past Spotify in US with 28M paid subscribers
Apple Inc.’s big bet on services seems to be paying off in the music streaming market. The Wall Street Journal today reported that Apple Music has overtaken rival Spotify Technology AB in U.S. subscriber count. According to the sources who spoke with the paper, the iPhone maker’s service had over 28 million paid users in February compared ...
Amazon reportedly developing Alexa-powered wireless earbuds
Amazon.com Inc.’s Lab126 hardware division is reportedly working on voice-powered wireless earbuds that will come with Alexa built-in. The information comes by way of a Bloomberg piece from Thursday afternoon. Citing sources with knowledge of Amazon’s hardware roadmap, the publication said the earbuds could make their debut as soon as the second half of this ...
Amazon goes to space: ‘Project Kuiper’ aims to put 3,200 satellites in orbit
Amazon.com Inc. has been stocking up on delivery vans, cargo plans and internally developed courier robots to support its increasingly ambitious growth plans. Now, the online retail giant is adding satellites to its shopping list. Regulatory filings uncovered today by GeekWire reveal that Amazon is working on a project to put a constellation of internet satellites into low Earth ...
Google releases its human-sounding Duplex AI to iOS, most Android devices
Consumers and restaurant operators in the U.S. are about to get their first big taste of Google LLC’s Duplex artificial intelligence. The search giant today said it has started broadly rolling out the service, which uses an almost frighteningly realistic synthetic voice to make table reservations. Duplex is becoming available as a feature in Google Assistant ...
Pure Storage acquires file storage provider Compuverde
Six months after picking up StorReduce Inc. to gain a bigger presence in the backup market, Pure Storage Inc. has made another strategic acquisition to extend its capabilities. The company on Tuesday announced that it’s buying Compuverde AB, a Sweden-based provider of file storage software. The firm’s flagship Compuverde vNAS platform enables enterprises to organize ...
Intel refreshes data center portfolio with new server CPUs, Agilex chips
Intel Corp. today launched a new version of its market-leading Xeon Scalable processor series for servers, along with a pair of more specialized products designed to power other parts of enterprises’ technology infrastructure. The new Xeons account for the bulk of the additions, with the chipmaker set to bring no fewer than 56 chip models to market ...
Segment raises $175M for its customer data platform
Companies collect data about customers via their websites, apps and a variety of other channels, but they often can’t combine the information into a meaningful whole due to integration challenges. Segment Inc., a startup working to ease the task, today announced that it has raised $175 million from a group of top-tier investors. The round ...
