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Aurora Innovation picks up fresh funding from Hyundai, Tesla investor
Heavily funded autonomous driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has raised more capital to fuel its product development plans, which it disclosed include building self-driving hydrogen cars. The investment, announced Wednesday night, is an extension to the $530 million round that Aurora raised in February. It was reported at the time that the startup had a post-money valuation north ...
As it steps up investment in podcasts, Spotify redesigns its service
Spotify Technology SA has spent nearly $400 million this year on acquiring podcast production companies as part of a push to open new revenue streams. In a continuation of the effort, the music streaming giant today redesigned its app to showcase more prominently the new types of content that it’s adding to the service. The new ...
After nearly tripling revenue, IT monitoring startup SignalFx reels in $75M round
The venture capital community continues making big bets in the infrastructure monitoring segment. SignalFx Inc., a startup helping enterprises keep an eye on the health of their technology systems, today announced that it has closed a $75 million funding round. The investment was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from existing investors. It comes just ...
With an eye to fully autonomous taxis, Uber intros new self-driving SUV
Uber Technologies Inc. today took the covers off a new self-driving vehicle that will start hitting public roads in 2020. The model (pictured) is the third autonomous prototype the company has developed so far as part of its partnership with Volvo AB. It’s based on the Swedish automaker’s XC90 sport utility vehicle, which is also ...
Cyberboom: CrowdStrike stock pops 71% in market debut after $612M IPO
Updated: CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s first day as a public company is off with a bang. The cybersecurity provider started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange this morning at $63.50 a share, up 85% over the pricing of its initial public offering Tuesday night. Update: It closed up 70% Wednesday, and then rose 16% more on Thursday. ...
Dropbox releases new native integrations, team features in major platform redesign
Dropbox Inc. today released a major redesign of its collaboration platform aimed at winning over more enterprise users by adding in a slew of new productivity features. The main theme of the update, which is available to all customers on an opt-in basis, is centralization. The average enterprise user relies on several different productivity tools from multiple providers ...
Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends are out: Tech giants dominate, mobile growth falters
Every year, famed venture capitalist Mary Meeker publishes a slide deck that touches upon key current trends in technology. The presentation draws wide industry attention both because of its depth — this year’s edition comes in at a massive 333 slides — and because Meeker has a long track record of correctly calling where the digital ...
AWS adds new partner programs for cloud migrations and government projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. relies extensively on partners to assist enterprise customers with their cloud projects. Today, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit launched new partner programs to address two types of cloud projects that account for an increasingly important part of its business. First up is the ISV Workload Migration Program. It will provide resources for ...
Intel researchers promise faster AI training with new hybrid algorithm
Besides pursuing practical applications of artificial intelligence, Intel Corp. also invests in research to advance the technology’s theoretical foundations. The latest fruit of the chipmaker’s work is an algorithm that could accelerate the development of complex AI models. The Collaborative Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning or CERL algorithm was presented today at the ICML machine learning conference in California. ...
WANdisco aims to simplify large-scale cloud migrations with LiveMigrator
Data management specialist WANdisco plc is moving to make it easier for enterprises to move workloads to the public cloud. The company today launched LiveMigrator, a new software product that promises to simplify the task of shifting files from on-premises hardware to an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. LiveMigrator addresses an important gap: The difficulty of moving legacy on-premises workloads ...
