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Datadog acquires application testing startup Madumbo to extend market reach
Datadog Inc., a major player in the crowded infrastructure monitoring market, today announced that it has acquired Paris-based startup Madumbo to move into the adjacent application testing segment. The deal is Datadog’s third to date. It previously bought another French startup called Logmatic.io in 2017 that developed a service for analyzing machine-generated data from technology systems. ...
Alphabet co-leads $16M round into geothermal energy spinout Dandelion
A handful of households in upstate New York is helping to pioneer what Dandelion Energy Inc. hopes will be the next big source of clean residential power. The startup, which spun out from Alphabet Inc. two years ago, makes geothermal systems that draw heat from the ground to keep homes warm in the winter and ...
Trump to sign executive order aimed at boosting AI development in the US
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later today that will direct the U.S. government to take a more active role in the development and regulation of artificial intelligence. Information is scarce about the American AI Initiative, as it’s called, with the administration pledging to release details over the next six months. The ...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro picks up $940M from SoftBank
For a market that didn’t exist a couple years ago, the nascent autonomous delivery market is certainly drawing a lot of investor interest. Nuro Inc., a startup looking to use self-driving vehicles to pick up groceries for consumers, today announced that it has closed a staggering $940 million investment from SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. ...
Report: Amid pushback, Amazon reconsidering $2.5B New York campus
Amazon.com Inc.’s highly publicized plan to build a $2.5 billion corporate campus in New York may be at risk of cancellation, according to a new report. The Washington Post today cited sources saying the company is considering relocating the project because of a backlash from local politicians and activists. Much of the criticism so far has focused on ...
With ClusterFuzz, Google aims to help developers catch application vulnerabilities
The complexity of modern applications makes finding security issues and other flaws tricky even for large tech firms with plenty of engineering know-how. To simplify this task for its developers, Google LLC has created ClusterFuzz, an automated bug detection tool that it open-sourced on Thursday. The tool uses a method known as fuzz testing to uncover ...
Fresh off a funding round, food delivery startup Postmates files for IPO
Postmates Inc., one of the major players in the multibillion-dollar food delivery segment, is going public. The company today disclosed that it has filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing itself is confidential, with Postmates saying that the financial details have not yet been hammered out. But a ...
Amazon backs mammoth $530M round for autonomous driving startup Aurora
Aurora Innovation Inc., an autonomous driving startup that exited stealth just over a year ago, today revealed that it has secured a mammoth $530 million funding round from a who’s who of technology investors. Famed venture capital firm Sequoia Capital led the consortium. It was joined by Amazon.com Inc., Wall Street heavyweight T. Rowe Price ...
Germany bans Facebook from merging user data across services without consent
Germany’s antitrust agency today issued a ruling that seeks to limit what Facebook Inc. can do with user data from its services and the broader web. The order follows a lengthy investigation that the agency, known as the Bundeskartellamt, launched in March 2016. At issue is Facebook’s practice of merging the data it collects about users across ...
As electric scooters and bikes take over cities, Lime bags $310M at $2.4B valuation
LimeBike Inc., one of the startups driving the proliferation of on-demand scooters and bikes in major cities, today announced that it has closed a $310 million funding round at a $2.4 billion valuation. The investment has been a long time coming. Rumors about Lime raising more money started emerging in mid-2018, with one early leak having claimed that both Alphabet ...
