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Alphabet’s Waymo taps startup Trov to insure self-driving taxi passengers
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car group today announced a deal with Trov Inc., a venture-backed insurance startup, to provide some reassurance against unexpected events for riders who will be testing its upcoming autonomous shuttle service. The technology giant plans to make driverless taxis available to the public in Arizona starting early next year. According to ...
Microsoft cuts cloud analytics service pricing by 52 percent and adds new features
Microsoft Corp. is kicking off the week with the release of several major updates for HDInsight, one of the main data analytics services on its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of the changes revealed today is an up to 52 percent price reduction for companies using the product. The move comes a week after Google LLC, one ...
France seeks to fine Amazon for allegedly abusing its market position
Amazon.com Inc. is facing a new legal challenge in the European Union. On Monday, French daily Le Parisien broke the news that the country’s Economy Ministry has filed a complaint against the online retailer following a two-year investigation into its operations. Reuters cited the publication as saying that the probe was carried out by the agency’s DGCCRF ...
Survey shows data quality is now a top challenge for analytics projects
Finding professionals with advanced data processing knowledge isn’t as pronounced a challenge as it once was for enterprises, according to Syncsort Inc.’s fourth annual survey of the analytics landscape. The provider, which sells software that helps large companies tap the information spread out across their internal systems, polled about 200 technology professionals and executives for the study. The ...
Paddle scoops up $12.5M in funding to centralize software sales
The subscription-based billing model that took off with the rise of cloud services changed how enterprises consume technology and opened a new chapter in Silicon Valley’s history. Yet today, software-as-a-service providers often still have to rely on multiple disparate systems to support their billing operations. London-based Paddle.com Market Ltd., which on Thursday announced the completion ...
Report: Squarespace raises $200M, now valued at $1.7B
Business website provider Squarespace Inc. is raising about $200 million in fresh capital as part of a funding round set to value it at an impressive $1.7 billion. That’s according to a Bloomberg report published this morning, which cited an anonymous source familiar with the deal. The investment comes courtesy of General Atlantic, a New ...
Microsoft backs $9.3M round into strategy management startup Workboard
Four-year-old Workboard Inc. is looking to streamline how companies execute their business strategies. To do so, the startup announced on Wednesday that it has raised $9.3 million in funding from Microsoft Ventures, Floodgate Management Co. LLC and several existing investors. The capital will go toward widening the adoption of Workboard’s namesake cloud platform, which is already ...
LinkedIn opens up the internal tool its engineers use to find technical issues
Like parent company Microsoft Corp., LinkedIn makes contributions to the open-source community on a regular basis. The social network bolstered its project portfolio once again today by releasing the code for a homegrown tool used internally to tackle technical problems. Named Fossor after the Latin word for “one who digs,” the system is designed to ...
Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng launches startup to push AI into manufacturing
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng today revealed what he has been working on since his high-profile exit from Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. earlier this year. Ng (pictured), who had previously co-founded the Google Brain Project and online education giant Coursera Inc., announced the launch of a new startup called Landing.ai Inc. that will focus ...
Bizzabo lands $15M to help companies supercharge their business events
Software-as-a-service startup Bizzabo Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to automate an essential but often overlooked aspect of companies’ marketing efforts: business conferences. According to Bizzabo, customer events, partner meetups and other live gatherings account for 24 percent of the average chief marketing officer’s annual budget. A lot of the ...
