Dfinity, a blockchain project that aims to upend Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft Corp. in the cloud, has raised $102 million in its second big funding of the year. Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital and other investors are backing the Swiss nonprofit that operates out of Palo Alto. It has only released a test version of its product but has now raised $190 million in private funding and is valued at close to $2 billion. The idea behind Dfinity, led by Dominic Williams, is to create a blockchain-powered,…

Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. is hiring a new chief financial officer who will join the company after a two and a half-year stint as the CFO of Sprint Corp. Tarek Robbiati will officially start in mid-September. He’s replacing outgoing CFO Tim Stonesifer, who helped guide the 2015 split of Hewlett-Packard into two standalone companies — the consumer-focused HP Inc. and enterprise-focused HPE. Stonesifer also helped HPE close 11 acquisitions, the company said in a statement.…

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