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Changing course, Amazon will reportedly split its planned HQ2 between two cities
Amazon.com Inc.’s planned second headquarters, or HQ2 as the closely watched project is officially called, will end up becoming two separate campuses on the East Coast. That’s according to reports published in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Monday evening. Citing anonymous sources, the Journal said that Amazon intends to split ...
In pivotal cloud deal, VMware to acquire Heptio, a startup led by Kubernetes’ co-creators
In yet another sign that the cloud is disrupting traditional enterprise computing, VMware Inc. today announced plans to acquire Heptio Inc., an infrastructure automation startup that had raised more than $33 million in funding from Accel, Madrona Venture Group and Lightspeed Venture Partners. This high-profile investor roster isn’t the only notable detail about Heptio. The ...
Data startup PredictHQ raises $10M for its global events API
An isolated snowstorm passing over a city isn’t likely to make a big dent in store visits for a national retailer with locations across the country. But in aggregate, weather changes and numerous other localized events that influence customer behavior either indirectly or directly have a noticeable affect on demand. Companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. keep ...
Intel debuts new top-end Xeon chips with up to 48 cores and AI optimizations
Intel Corp. today previewed a new Xeon server processor series that it claims can outperform silicon from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by delivering up to 48 cores per chip. The Cascade Lake AP family is based on a fundamentally different design than the company’s current Xeon SP line, which packs a maximum of 28 ...
Symantec picks up cybersecurity startups Appthority and Javelin to bolster portfolio
Symantec Corp. recently revealed plans to trim its workforce by 8 percent as part of a cost-cutting initiative, but the company continues to invest in growth areas. The cybersecurity heavyweight today announced that it has acquired Appthority Inc. and Javelin Networks Inc., two venture-backed startups focused on enterprise network protection. Each deal will bolster a ...
Tesla in hot water again after SEC issues subpoena over Model 3 production figures
Tesla Inc. is once again under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s microscope. The automaker said in a regulatory filing today that the agency is investigating projections that it had made about the production of its Model 3 sedan. The development comes only weeks after Tesla and its high-profile Chief Executive Elon Musk (pictured) settled fraud charges ...
Alibaba posts mixed earnings, lowers guidance as revenue growth slows
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. continues to expand at breakneck speed in the e-commerce and cloud markets, but the company’s overall growth has dropped from previous quarters. China’s most valuable tech firm today posted revenues of 85.1 billion yuan, or $12.4 billion, in the quarter ended Sept. 30, which represents a 54 percent jump from last year. But analysts ...
Google reinforces its hosted Kubernetes service with new network security controls
Google LLC’s latest update to its public cloud aims to make the platform a more attractive destination for running software container projects. The update, released today, introduces three new networking controls for the platform’s Google Kubernetes Engine service. It’s a hosted implementation of the Kubernetes framework, which was released into open source by the search giant in 2014 ...
Open-source cloud tooling maker HashiCorp bags $100M round at $1.9B valuation
HashiCorp Inc., a startup that makes open-source tools for managing cloud environments and applications, today announced that it has reeled in a $100 million late-stage funding round led by IVP. IVP is one of two new backers to have participated in the investment, with the other being Bessemer Venture Partners. They were joined by returning ...
Greylock-backed Rockset launches with a serverless analytics platform for the cloud
Rockset Inc., a San Mateo, California-based data processing startup, today exited stealth mode with what it describes as a serverless analytics and search platform. The term “serverless” refers to a fast-rising category of cloud services that automate the low-level infrastructure management tasks administrators have historically performed manually. Rockset uses a somewhat broader definition of the term. ...
