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Justice Department sues Google for allegedly breaking antitrust law
The U.S. Justice Department today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google LLC accusing the company of harming the competition in the search and search advertising markets. Google has pushed back against the suit, calling it “deeply flawed” in a statement. The Justice Department is being joined by 11 state attorneys general in the litigation. Court documents seen ...
Microsoft launches Azure Space to power satellite projects
Microsoft Corp. today debuted Azure Space, a new portfolio of cloud products that will address use cases such as simulating satellite constellations and providing internet connectivity to edge devices. Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX Corp. to support parts of the portfolio. Azure Space is, as the name implies, aimed in large part at space sector customers. The portfolio ...
BetterCloud’s new Discover platform uncovers ‘shadow IT’ applications
BetterCloud Inc. debuted a new platform called Discover at its virtual Altitude event today that’s aimed at giving companies a clearer view of what software-as-a-service applications their workers are using. The platform is designed to combat so-called shadow IT, the phenomenon of employees using cloud services and other tech products without the information technology team’s ...
Startup Flex Logix launches ‘industry’s fastest’ edge AI inference chip
Semiconductor startup Flex Logix Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its InferX X1 artificial intelligence chip, which it says can provide up to 10 times more performance than Nvidia Corp. silicon in some scenarios. Flex Logix was formed in 2014 and has since raised $27 million from investors. The startup is led by Chief ...
Juniper Networks to buy virtual router maker 128 Technology for $450M
Juniper Networks Inc. today announced that it has inked a $450 million deal to acquire 128 Technology Inc., a Burlington, Massachusetts-based maker of a software platform for powering enterprise networks. The transaction is expected to wrap up in Juniper’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in late January. Founded in 2014, 128 Technology provides a software-based ...
The Citizen Browser Project launches to shed light on social media disinformation
A new initiative dubbed The Citizen Browser Project aims to use a custom-designed browser to illuminate how disinformation spreads on social media. The initiative, the Nieman Journalism Lab reported today, is being launched by The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how technology influences society. The Markup is teaming up with The New York Times to ...
AWS and Carrier team up to combat food waste with analytics
Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about a technical collaboration with Carrier Global Corp. aimed at harnessing the cloud giant’s analytics services and data from connected devices to reduce food waste. Florida-based Carrier is one of the world’s top makers of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Its hardware is widely deployed in, among others, cargo-carrying ...
Google Search gets hum-to-search and AI query upgrades
Google LLC has announced a set of artificial intelligence upgrades to its search engine that will enable users to find more types of information, as well as increase the accuracy of returned results. Company executives detailed the enhancements at the company’s Search On virtual event on Thursday. In cases when users want to find a ...
Balto closes $10M in funding to optimize contact center operations with AI
Balto Inc., a startup competing in the crowded contact center analytics market, today announced that it has closed a $10 million investment led by Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures was joined in the Series A round by several other institutional backers, including Jump Capital, OCA Ventures and Cultivation Capital. During the past few years, several startups have emerged with ...
ServiceNow and IBM team up for Watson-powered automatic troubleshooting
ServiceNow Inc. today announced a collaboration with IBM Corp. to provide automatic problem detection features powered by IBM’s Watson AIOps product. Publicly traded ServiceNow’s Now Platform provides a centralized hub from which information technology teams can manage their companies’ infrastructure and applications. Watson AIOps is an IBM software product that uses machine learning to detect ...