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Payment card provider Marqeta lands massive $260M funding round
Digital payment processing company Marqeta Inc. today finally closed on $260 million fundin round almost two months after it first said talks were taking place. Coatue Management led the Series E round, which also saw the participation of several new investors, including Spark Capital, Lone Pine, Geodesic and Vitruvian. Marqeta said the round pushes its valuation to ...
Google’s Kubernetes Engine adds rapid release channels, support for Windows containers
Google LLC today announced a series of updates to its popular Google Kubernetes Engine service at the KubeCon EU conference in Barcelona. The updates include new release channels for early adopters to take advantage of the latest new features, support for Windows-based containers, and new monitoring tools via Stackdriver. GKE is a management and orchestration service for Docker ...
Huawei wins temporary reprieve from US technology ban
Just hours after Google LLC and a number of prominent computer chipmakers announced they were suspending business with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., the Chinese firm has gotten a temporary reprieve. Reuters reported late today the U.S. government has eased some of the restrictions placed on Huawei last week in order to alleviate some of the ...
Google’s smart glasses get faster, smarter and more durable
Google LLC’s revolutionary Glass device was at one time thought to be dead and buried after the company announced in 2015 it had given up developing the hardware. But the smart glasses got a new breath of life with the release of an enterprise-focused version in 2017, designed for companies that needed a simple, wearable ...
Oracle’s new Cloud Infrastructure Broker aimed at making life easier for Kubernetes developers
Oracle Corp. is aiming to make it easier for developers to connect containerized applications built on Kubernetes with its cloud services. It’s an important move because Kubernetes has become the most popular software for managing container-based apps, which can be built just once and run on any computing platform. Oracle needs to support Kubernetes as best ...
Google and major chipmakers reportedly cut ties to Huawei
Troubled Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been dealt dual hammer blows with the news that Google LLC has decided to cease doing business with it and four major chipmakers no longer will supply the company. A report in Reuters today cited “sources close to the matter” as saying that Google will “immediately” suspend ...
Microsoft and Sony say they’re collaborating on cloud gaming and AI
Microsoft Corp.’s and Sony Corp.’s rivalry in the videogame industry is pretty fierce by anybody’s standards, so today’s announcement that they’re teaming up to improve their respective gaming platforms comes as a big surprise. The companies’ chief executives, Satya Nadella (pictured, right) and Kenichiro Yoshida (left), said they’re planning to “collaborate on new cloud-based solutions for ...
Nvidia tops earnings forecasts despite data center and gaming declines
Updated: Computer graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. saw its stock jump almost 6% in after-hours trading after posting first-quarter results that beat expectations. But most of those gains were wiped out after the company warned of challenges to its primary gaming and data center businesses. Nvidia reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
Xnor’s AI2GO platform aims to make it easy to add AI to edge devices
Seattle-based startup Xnor Inc. wants to make artificial intelligence more accessible with its new “self-serve” AI2GO platform that enables developers without any training to build AI models for edge devices. AI2GO gives developers an easy way to build AI capabilities into a range of products, including mobile devices, wearables, smart cameras and remote sensors. The platform comes ...
Google recalls Titan security keys with potential Bluetooth vulnerability
Google LLC is recalling some of its Titan Security Key products, which are used by enterprises as a more secure alternative to two-factor authentication, after learning of a possible exploit that could be accessed via its Bluetooth feature. The Titan Security Keys are designed to limit access to computers by physical proximity, meaning that any ...
