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Apple and Cisco team up with Allianz to provide antihacker insurance
Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. joined forces back in 2015 to help companies that use the networking giant’s gear to improve management of traffic from employees’ iPhones and iPads. The tech giants have now expanded the scope of their collaboration to another area: insurance. Today, Apple and Cisco launched a new “cyber risk management ...
Former Intel President Renee James launches a competing chip startup
Ampere Computing Inc., a semiconductor startup led by former Intel Corp. President Renee James, launched out of stealth mode this morning to challenge the chip giant’s long-held dominance of the data center market. Ampere is developing processors based on designs from ARM Holdings PLC. The latter company’s blueprints are the basis for the vast majority of ...
Google is investing $310M in a new Belgian data center with an on-site solar farm
Google LLC’s global facilities have been running exclusively on renewable energy since late last year thanks to a series of major energy purchases that the company started back in 2010. The search giant is determined to maintain this newly earned status. On Thursday, Google announced plans to build a data center in Belgium that will have ...
Microsoft launches the Cortana Intelligence Institute to advance AI
Microsoft Corp. is forming a new cross-continent research initiative to advance artificial intelligence technology. The company on Thursday announced the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute, a collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology focused on broadening the capabilities of its virtual assistant. RMIT, as the university is most commonly known, is Australia’s largest ...
Voice interface startup Pulse Labs raises $2.5M round backed by Amazon
The rapid adoption of smart speakers and other voice-enabled devices such as Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo has created a new channel through which companies can engage consumers. Pulse Labs Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on unlocking this opportunity, today announced the completion of a $2.5 million funding round. Madrona Venture Group led the investment. It was joined ...
Lyft opens a new autonomous driving lab in Germany
Lyft Inc. last month expanded outside the U.S. for the first time by making its ride-hailing app available in Toronto. Today, the startup passed another milestone, announcing the opening of a new autonomous driving lab across the pond in the German city of Munich. Lyft said in a blog post that the team at the ...
Project collaboration firm Asana picks up $75M in funding
Asana Inc., a productivity startup led by Facebook Inc. co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, late Tuesday announced that it has secured $75 million in fresh funding. The round was led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP. Other participants included 8VC, Founders Fund and Y Combinator president Sam Altman, with Dustin Moskovitz himself chipping in as well. Asana revealed that ...
GitLab picks up code security startup Gemnasium
San Francisco-based GitLab Inc. provides a code hosting platform that has been adopted by more than 100,000 organizations to manage their software projects. Now, the company is moving to make it easier for those customers to ensure that their applications don’t contain any security flaws. GitLab announced today that it has acquired Gemnasium Inc., a maker of tools ...
Waymo orders thousands of Chrysler minivans for self-driving taxi fleet
Waymo’s fleet of self-driving taxis is about to get a lot bigger. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV revealed this morning that the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary has placed an order for “thousands” of hybrid minivans to bolster its upcoming autonomous shuttle service. The vehicles are based on the automaker’s 2018 Chrysler Pacifica series, which retails from $39,995 and ...
Andrew Ng launches $175M AI Fund that will build startups from scratch
Andrew Ng, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher and onetime founder of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain project, has launched a $175 million fund to back AI startups. Ng shared the news in a Medium post today. The capital for the AI Fund comes courtesy of New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese ...
