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Nutanix to acquire virtual desktop startup Frame in move to bolster cloud lineup
Hyperconverged appliance maker Nutanix Inc. on Thursday evening announced plans to acquire Mainframe2 Inc., a virtual desktop startup that does business as Frame. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is the culmination of a six-year startup journey for Frame that saw it raise three funding rounds along the way for $28.5 million ...
Walmart is piloting a robot called Alphabot to automate grocery pickups
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s automation efforts go far beyond its reported talks with Microsoft Corp. about building cashier-free stores. The company today revealed plans to deploy a specialized warehouse robot as part of a pilot program focused on speeding up grocery pickups for online shoppers. Dubbed Alphabot, the system (pictured) was born from a partnership between Walmart and Alert ...
In a milestone first, Apple’s market cap passes $1 trillion
After seeing its stock price steadily rise over the past two days, Apple Inc. today hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion and thereby became the first U.S. company ever to reach the valuation. The iPhone maker’s shares passed the crucial $207.05 mark this morning and finished at $207.39 by the end of Thursday, up just under ...
With new Unity alliance, Google looks to mobile games for new ad revenue
Google LLC is extending its digital advertising business into a new, and highly lucrative, corner of the online world: mobile games. The technology giant kicked off the push today by announcing a partnership with Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of the industry’s top mobile game engine. Unity claims that titles powered by its software racked ...
Carbon Black launches a new cloud service for investigating cyberattacks
Carbon Black Inc., the cybersecurity provider that went public in May as part of this year’s tech wave of initial public offerings, today launched its first new product since debuting on the Nasdaq. Cb LiveOps is a tool for investigating cyberattacks that involve endpoints such as employee desktops. Mapping out the full scope of a ...
Facebook moves to make money from WhatsApp with Business API and Status ads
After acquiring WhatsApp for $22 billion in 2014, Facebook Inc. did away with the messaging app’s $1 annual membership fee. The social network is now launching a push to make money from the app once again, and on a bigger scale. Facebook today introduced two new paid offerings aimed at companies that use WhatsApp Business. ...
NetApp debuts Ontap AI, an Nvidia-powered hardware platform for AI projects
The major cloud providers all offer services for building artificial intelligence software on their platforms, but some enterprises still opt to run their projects in-house. NetApp Inc. today introduced a specialized new system to target this market. Ontap AI combines the storage supplier’s A800 flash array with the DGX-1, a specialized server built by Nvidia Corp. ...
Grab, the Uber of Southeast Asia, is reportedly raising another $1B round
Less than two months after securing $1 billion from investors, Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup Grab Taxi Pte is reportedly set to announce yet another 10-figure round. Insiders leaked word of the investment this morning to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. One of the sources who spoke with the Journal said the round values Grab at ...
Amazon-backed AI data startup DefinedCrowd raises $11.8M to fuel growth
For artificial intelligence models, learning doesn’t come naturally. Training an AI requires vast quantities of well-organized data tailored for the specific needs of a project, a resource that can be difficult to collect. Seattle-based DefinedCrowd Inc. is working to make quality information more easily accessible for companies building AI applications. To fuel the effort, the ...
Mimecast acquires Solebit for $88M to fend off zero-day email threats
Publicly traded email security provider Mimecast Ltd has bought Solebit Inc., a startup focused on fending off zero-day attacks that target users via their inboxes. The deal, which was announced this morning, is valued at $88 million net of acquired cash. San Francisco-based Solebit previously raised $13 million in funding from investors. It’s a graduate ...
