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Microsoft redesigns Power BI and adds in new AI analytics tools
Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new version of its Power BI business intelligence platform that features a revamped user experience and analytics features powered by machine learning. Power BI enables analysts to turn raw data such as sales figures into visualizations that can be easily shared with decision-makers. The product competes in the same category ...
Vectra bags $100M from blue-chip investors to hunt threats with network metadata
Alongside the wave of acquisitions that took place in the past few weeks, the cybersecurity industry has seen a number of startups raise substantial funding rounds. Today, Vectra AI Inc. became the latest to join the fray after announcing that it has closed a fresh $100 million investment. Early Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. investor ...
Google reportedly lobbying US government for waiver from Huawei ban
Google LLC is seeking an exemption from the Trump administration’s ban on doing business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the Financial Times reported today. Sources told the publication that “senior executives” from the search giant have approached the Commerce Department about the matter in recent weeks. According to the people, the subject of the executives’ ...
With Tupperware and Delos, Facebook brings automation to millions of servers
Facebook Inc. hosts an annual event called Systems @Scale at its Menlo Park, California campus that, as the name implies, is dedicated to the systems and technologies powering the world’s biggest data centers. The company uses the invite-only conference partly to showcase some of its own internal infrastructure innovations. Today, data center experts once again ...
Apple reportedly in talks to buy autonomous taxi startup Drive.ai
In late February, word emerged that autonomous taxi startup Drive.ai Inc. was looking for a buyer. Now, it may have finally found one. The Information on Wednesday evening cited two sources as saying that Apple Inc. is in the process of acquiring Drive.ai. The transaction, which is apparently not yet a done deal, is described ...
Amazon’s new hexagonal delivery drones will take flight within ‘months’
It looks like Alphabet Inc.’s budding Wing drone delivery operation will soon have some serious competition. At its re:MARS emerging technology event today, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a homegrown courier drone that it plans on using to fly packages to consumers’ homes via its Prime Air operation. It’s the latest of some two dozen drones the company ...
Setting rivalry aside, Microsoft and Oracle link their public clouds to go after AWS
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. are integrating their competing public cloud platforms to form a unified front against Amazon Web Services Inc., their common rival. The partnership, which the companies announced this morning, has several components. The first is a direct network link between Microsoft’s Azure and Oracle Cloud that will facilitate faster data sharing ...
Yellowbrick raises $81M for its hyperconverged data warehouse
Analytics startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today announced that it has raised $81 million in new funding, an investment representing its third capital raise since the start of 2018. The round saw the participation of storied venture capital firm IVP, BMW AG and more than a half-dozen existing investors, including Google LLC’s GV. Yellowbrick’s total outside funding ...
After 13 years of bootstrapping, FormAssembly raises its first $10M round
Many of the average company’s most important interactions with users, from e-commerce orders to newsletter signups, happen through online forms. It’s not the most glamorous part of the customer engagement lifecycle, but it can be surprisingly complex due to the fact that large amounts of data change hands. FormAssembly Inc. is working to streamline the ...
Amid rapid growth, SentinelOne raises $120M round led by Insight Partners
SentinelOne Inc., a fast-growing player in the endpoint security market, today revealed that it has raised a $120 million round of funding led by Insight Partners. All of the startup’s existing investors participated along with new backers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and NextEquity. The round brings its total raised to nearly $230 million. Mountain View, California-based ...
