While the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may get more money in 2015 to study sensors and robots for use in warfare, the hot area of cognitive computing research could lose out.
Venture capital firms continue to funnel big sums of money to big data startups. Hadoop player Cloudera announced $160 million in new financing, and analytics startup Platfora raised $38 million.
Sierratel, Sierra Leone's government-owned telecommunication company, received a delivery of US$16.6 million worth of wireless telecommunication equipment from China's Huawei Technologies over the weekend. Funding was provided by a loan from the Chinese government.
If you want to see what’s going to be hot in networking, it’s a good idea to follow the money - and start-up Force10 Networks this week closed a funding round that brought the company just under $75 million.
The European Union is funding a three-year research project that intends to develop a variety of technical components and policies designed to make cloud computing more secure.
A U.S. senator plans to introduce a bill that seeks to increase funding for research and science education in an effort to kick start efforts to pass legislation to improve U.S. competitiveness.
Bitcoin: What is it, really? A digital currency? An investment? An Xbox game? For many people it's not clear, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from going gaga over it.
The attorney general for the state of Washington has filed a lawsuit against a company that raised more than US$25,000 on Kickstarter but allegedly didn't deliver the playing-card deck it promised its crowd-funding investors.
Run-book automation vendor iWave Software acquires data center orchestration and cloud management provider Enigmatec, while MokaFive picks up $21 million in venture capital funding for its virtual desktop management suite.
Security start-ups Skyfence Networks and Zimperium made their official debut today, while another still in stealth mode, Bluebox Security, announced this week additional funding bringing it to a $27.5 million in venture capital.
Cluster start-up PolyServe grabbed an additional $20 million in venture funding last week, which the company will use to add development, sales and marketing staff.
Compiere has secured its first external funding to the tune of $6 million and is planning to relocate its headquarters, the open-source midmarket business applications company said Tuesday.
ClearCube, a maker of bladed PCs, this week is expected to announce that it has received an additional $25 million in investments. The company says it plans to use the funds to expand its international marketing efforts.
The investment will bring ClearCube's total funding to $85 million.
"We have three primary verticals - hospitals, financial and government/military," says Carl Boisvert, newly appointed CEO of ClearCube. "This round will allow us to penetrate more verticals and markets in parts of t
Over two years after breaking a Kickstarter funding record to get its smartwatch off the ground, Pebble returned to the crowdfunding site to fund its new watch, the Pebble Time.
Quarry Technologies, a maker of equipment that carriers use to offer security services, this week announced it has raised $18 million in a fourth round of venture funding - the company's first in about three years.