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Investors bet $40M on Ripcord’s document digitization robots
Ripcord Inc. sees massive revenue potential in the mountains of paper documents that litter offices around the world. To pursue the opportunity, the startup today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding from a consortium led by prolific Silicon Valley fund Icon Ventures. The round consists of $25 million in equity financing and ...
Codacy raises $5.1M to help developers find bugs faster
A significant portion of developers’ time is spent scouring their code for potential issues that may undermine application integrity. London-based Codacy is working to speed up the task, and today announced that it has raised $5.1 million in funding to support the effort. The startup offers an automated code review platform that can scan application ...
Google adds new collaboration and template features to G Suite
Editing business documents, spreadsheets and presentations in G Suite is set to become a lot more straightforward. This morning, Google Inc. rolled out new features for the productivity suite that aim to tackle several of the pain points often experienced by teams during collaborative projects. The first is version control. Retrieving a past iteration of a file had required identifying ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Event Grid to enable more automated apps
Everything that happens in a company’s cloud environment holds potential significance from an operational standpoint. One firm may wish to log certain events for auditing purposes, while another might be interested in triggering an automated action when an important change takes place. Microsoft Corp. hopes to ease the creation of such workflows with a new service introduced today called ...
Fiat Chrysler teams up with Intel, BMW to build self-driving cars
Intel Corp. has gained yet another ally in its push to become a leader in technology for self-driving cars. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., the world’s seventh-largest automaker, today joined an initiative led by the chip giant and BMW AG to develop autonomous vehicles. The companies have previously brought British car supplier Delphi Automotive plc into the ...
OneSignal pulls in $7M funding for its popular push notification service
Push notifications can be a powerful tool for engaging users when applied correctly. Lilomi Inc., a Y Combinator-backed startup that does business as OneSignal, has raised $7 million in funding from investors to ease the implementation process. The newly closed round, announced today, was led by early-stage fund SignalFire with participation from Rakuten Ventures and ...
To beef up its Azure cloud, Microsoft buys scientific computing firm Cycle Computing
Microsoft Corp. is looking to make its Azure cloud platform more appealing for scientific projects and other complex workloads. To that end, the technology giant today said it has acquired Cycle Computing LLC, a Connecticut-based firm focused on harnessing cloud infrastructure for high-performance applications. Its flagship CycleCloud toolkit is used by the likes of NASA, Novartis ...
Salesforce wants to help companies build better online communities
For an organization with a large user base, maintaining the level of engagement that is expected nowadays can be a challenge. One way companies are approaching it is by setting up online community portals to enable two-way interactions. Salesforce.com Inc. is working on expanding the appeal of this approach to more markets. As part of the effort, the ...
IOpipe raises $2.5M to monitor serverless applications
There are many providers that offer to help companies keep better track of their cloud infrastructure, but few are as specialized as IOpipe Inc. The startup, which today announced that it has closed a $2.5 million funding round, focuses on monitoring the so-called serverless applications that started cropping up in recent years. They first began emerging en ...
Google reportedly acquires medical diagnosis startup Senosis Health
Google Inc. is expanding its presence in the medical technology market. According to a report Sunday by GeekWire, the search giant has acquired Senosis Health Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on harnessing mobile devices for medical diagnosis. It was founded by five healthcare and technology experts from the University of Washington. Among them is MacArthur Fellow Shwetak Patel, ...
