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Shares of data center operator Switch jump 30% following $531M IPO
Switch Inc.’s first day as a public company is off to a strong start. Shares of the Las Vegas-based data center operator, which hosts infrastructure for many of the world’s best-known tech firms, started trading at $21.70 apiece this morning and have since passed the $22 mark. The jump represents a more than 30 percent increase over ...
Google unveils new supersized cloud instances with 96 processor cores
Fresh off its gadget-packed press conference on Wednesday, Google LLC is shifting focus to the enterprise with a major cloud update. In a blog post published today, the company introduced a new class of virtual machines for the Google Cloud Platform. The series is based on Intel’s Skylake chip architecture and offers 96 cores with every instance. That’s ...
Bluecore raises $35M to help brands target shoppers online
In the Amazon.com Inc. era, retailers and other consumer-facing companies are increasingly doing their business online. Bluecore Inc. is using analytics to help them better target shoppers on the web. More than 400 brands work with the New York-based startup, which on Wednesday announced that it has closed a $35 million funding round led by ...
Following health data controversy, Google’s DeepMind forms AI ethics unit
Criticized for a controversy over the improper use of health data, DeepMind Technologies Ltd., Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research division, is expanding the scope of its work beyond the technical realm. The U.K.-based group this morning announced the launch of a new team tasked with exploring the ethical challenges that accompany the spread of AI. The ...
LinkedIn’s new platformwide analytics service targets recruiting blind spots
Microsoft Corp. paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn last year first and foremost to obtain its massive trove of information about the world’s working population. Today, the social network unveiled a new service designed to generate a return on that data more directly. LinkedIn Talent Insights provides a visual interface that enables users to access a breakdown of different ...
Kahoot takes its gamified education platform to the enterprise
Outside a purely conceptual point of view, corporate training programs usually have little in common with traditional classroom education. Norway’s Kahoot AS is narrowing the gap. The startup, which recently raised $20 million from a consortium featuring Microsoft Ventures, offers a platform that lets teachers present quizzes and homework assignments in the form of mobile games. Over 40 percent ...
Intel’s new service aims to accelerate the spread of connected devices – safely
Installing smart light bulbs in an office is a fairly trivial task. Deploying several thousands of them in a factory, on the other hand, is an entirely different proposition. The complexity of such large-scale projects represents an obstacle to connected-device adoption that Intel Corp. has set out to remove. At the center of the chip giant’s plans ...
Analytics startup AtScale raises $25M to help enterprises answer big questions
During his time at Yahoo Inc., Dave Mariani had a chance to experience the challenges involved in processing data on a large scale close up. Employees at the web giant employed several different analytics tools as part of their work that each required Mariani’s team to maintain a separate set of supporting technologies and processes. To help ...
Kryon Systems lands $12M to free knowledge workers from repetitive tasks
Kryon Systems Ltd. is working to help companies streamline business operations one back-office application at a time. The Israeli startup, which this morning announced the completion of a $12 million funding round, offers a platform for performing so-called robotic process automation. It’s an emerging use of deep learning that centers on freeing up knowledge workers from performing repetitive ...
With $20M in new funding, OpsRamp sets out to automate hybrid clouds
As cloud adoption continues to widen, administrators must balance the requirements of the new off-premises applications their companies are deploying with the infrastructure that still runs in-house. OpsRamp Inc. has carved out a niche for itself by helping to automate the task. The three-year-old startup, which was bootstrapped up to this point, today announced that ...
