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Targeting early 2019 IPO, ForgeRock takes in $88M from investors
Consumers interact with companies via a growing number of mediums, from mobile devices and the web to point-of-sale systems. As a result, it’s not uncommon for large organizations to be managing upwards of millions of user accounts. San Francisco-based ForgeRock Inc. has spent the past seven years working to ease the task. Today, the company ...
Hadoop distributor MapR raises $56M following major sales jump
A year after closing its last funding round, MapR Technologies Inc. has secured another cash infusion to establish a stronger position in the global analytics market. The company, which sells a commercial version of the popular Hadoop data crunching framework, today announced the completion of a $56 million investment. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with ...
Carpooling startup Via nabs funding from Daimler for European push
The competition in the ride-hailing market continues to intensify. Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz AG, today inked a partnership with Via Transportation Inc. to launch a joint carpooling service in Europe. The alliance will center on Via’s mobile app, which enables users to catch a ride on a vehicle going their way and ...
HPE wraps up its $8.8B software spinoff to Micro Focus
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is a much leaner company than it was yesterday. The technology giant this morning officially wrapped up the sale of its former software business to U.K.-based Micro Focus International plc. As part of the deal, HPE has received an $2.5 billion cash payment while its shareholders will own a 50.1 percent ...
Juniper Networks to acquire AI-powered security startup Cyphort
Practically every leading threat detection platform on the market now uses some form of artificial intelligence. Juniper Networks Inc. on Thursday announced that it has struck an agreement to buy Cyphort Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based cybersecurity startup, in a move seemingly aimed at leveling the playing field. Cyphort offers a platform for finding malicious ...
Oracle adds new AI, data tools for harnessing connected devices
Oracle Corp. is bolstering its cloud lineup with new tools aimed at helping companies take better advantage of the data generated by their connected devices. The first of the additions, which are rolling out for the Oracle Internet of Things Cloud suite, is a modeling feature dubbed Digital Twin. It provides the ability to create ...
Qadium, a security startup with CIA roots, raises $40 million
Every server, handset and connected device in a company is a potential attack vector. San Francisco-based Qadium Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to help organizations find vulnerable systems before hackers do. The startup, which is headed by former CIA analyst Tim Junio, offers a network monitoring platform that differs ...
Dropbox Paper gets a G Suite-style upgrade
Dropbox Inc. is making it easier to keep track of files in Paper, its collaborative document editing service. The company today released an update for the tool that brings several notable usability improvements. Among the most significant is a new version control tab that logs edits, title modifications and other major changes to a file. ...
New Salesforce project uses AI to make databases more accessible
Salesforce.com Inc. has found a new application for artificial intelligence. Researchers from the cloud giant on Tuesday released a paper detailing the architectural details of Seq2SQL, an internally-developed tool designed to help business users interact with databases. The software provides a natural-language interface for asking questions about the records in a system. According to Salesforce, ...
Siemens enters the business of simulating self-driving cars
Autonomous navigation systems are fairly rough around the edges at this point in time, which requires automakers such as Tesla Inc. to perform extensive testing before shipping them out with their vehicles. Siemens AG is hoping to streamline the task. The German industrial giant today announced that it has acquired Tass International Software and Services B.V., a ...
