Frederic Lardinois
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Peltarion raises $20M for its AI platform
Peltarion, a Swedish startup founded by former execs from companies like Spotify, Skype, King, TrueCaller and Google, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Euclidean Capital, the family office for hedge fund billionaire James Simons. Previous investors FAM a… → Read More
DigitalOcean launches its managed database service
DigitalOcean started as an affordable but basic virtual private server offering with a pleasant user interface. Over the last few years, the company started adding features like object and block storage, load balancers and a container service. → Read More
Firefox for iOS gets persistent private browsing tabs
Firefox for iOS is getting an update today that brings a new layout for its menu and settings, as well as new organization settings in the New Tabs features to iPhone and iPad users. → Read More
Zoho’s office suite gets smarter
As far as big tech companies go, Zoho is a bit different. → Read More
Google says it’ll invest $13B in U.S. data centers and offices this year
Google today announced that it will invest $13 billion in data centers and offices across the U.S. in 2019. That’s up from $9 billion in investments last year. → Read More
Ubisoft and Mozilla team up to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant
Game developer Ubisoft today announced that it has partnered with Mozilla to develop Clever-Commit, an AI-based coding assistant that learns from your code base’s bug and regression data to analyze and flag potential new bugs as new code is committed. Ubisoft already uses this tool internally… → Read More
IBM brings Watson to any cloud
IBM today announced that it is freeing its Watson-branded AI services like the Watson Assistant for building conversational interfaces and Watson OpenScale for managing the AI lifecycle from its own cloud and allowing enterprises to take its platform and running it their own data centers. In a way,… → Read More
Datadog acquires app testing company Madumbo
Datadog, the popular monitoring and analytics platform, today announced that it has acquired Madumbo, an AI-based application testing platform. → Read More
Gmail gets a useful right-click menu
Google is giving Gmail a new right-click menu. And it’s about time. While you’ve long been able to right-click on any email in your inbox, your options were always limited. → Read More
C2A raises $6.5M for its in-car cybersecurity platform
Cars are now essentially computers on wheels — and like every computer, they are susceptible to attacks. → Read More
Google Docs gets an API for task automation
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. → Read More
Google Fiber pulls out of Louisville
It wasn’t that long ago that cities across the U.S. were vying for Google Fiber, the company’s high-speed internet service. → Read More
Google open sources ClusterFuzz
Google today announced that it is open sourcing ClusterFuzz, a scalable fuzzing tool that can run on clusters with over 25,000 machines. → Read More
Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads
Enterprises now amass huge amounts of data, both from their own tools and applications, as well as from the SaaS applications they use. For a long time, that data was basically exhaust. → Read More
Microsoft really, really, really doesn’t want you to buy Office 2019
Microsoft launched a new ad campaign for its Office suite today. Usually, that’s not something especially interesting, but this one is a bit different. → Read More
Google doubles down on its Asylo confidential computing framework
Last May, Google introduced Asylo, an open source framework for confidential computing, a technique favored by many of the big cloud vendors because it allows you to set up trusted execution environments that are shielded from the rest of the (potentially untrusted) system. Workloads and their data… → Read More
Databricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platform
Databricks, the company behind the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz. → Read More
Coda’s programmable document editor comes out of beta, launches iOS app
Coda, which is coming out of its limited beta today, wants to reinvent how you think about documents and spreadsheets. → Read More
Google brings Chrome OS Instant Tethering to more Chromebooks and phones
Tethering your laptop and phone can be a bit of a hassle. → Read More
Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos
There are many things worse than autoplaying video and audio on the web. The world is a messy place, after all. But it sure is distracting when you surf to a website and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume. → Read More