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Crimson Hexagon’s newest tool applies computer vision to social media
Enterprise marketing teams rely heavily on social media to assess consumer sentiment, but the monitoring tools used for the task typically only track the part of the conversation that is communicated in written form. As a result, they overlook a major source of insight: the more than 3 billion photos that are posted on a daily ...
LogMeIn buys chatbot startup Nanorep for $45M to automate customer support
LogMeIn Inc. is the latest enterprise tech firm to jump on the chatbot bandwagon. The publicly traded remote access provider today announced that it’s acquiring Israeli virtual assistant maker Nanorep Technologies Ltd. for $45 million. LogMeIn will pay out up to $5 million more over the next two years if certain business goals are met. It’s ...
Microsoft veterans raise $10.8M to take on IFTTT and Flow
A few years before Microsoft Corp. jumped into workflow automation with Flow, a group of company veterans led by former software architect Nikhil Hasija banded together to pursue their own vision for addressing this market. Their startup, Azuqua Inc., today said it has raised $10.8 million from a consortium led by Insight Venture Partners. The ...
NEA leads $20M funding of AI-powered authentication startup UnifyID
So-called implicit authentication that relies on a user’s behavior rather than manual verification methods to confirm their identity is becoming increasingly viable, and venture capitalists are taking notice. UnifyID Inc., one of the startups pioneering the approach, has today said it has closed a $20 million financing round led by New Enterprise Associates. The investment ...
Alphabet is building a salt-powered system for storing renewable energy
Alphabet Inc.’s latest moonshot project appears to be one of its most ambitious yet. Google Inc.’s parent company has revealed to Bloomberg that its secretive X research group is working on a project meant to tackle one of the biggest economic obstacles to renewable energy initiatives: underutilization. The issue lies with the fact that solar and ...
Rackspace deepens AWS partnership to ease cloud transition for more enterprises
The public cloud is by now on almost every company’s agenda, but many lack the expertise necessary to move mission-critical applications off their in-house infrastructure. Rackspace Inc. is looking to help. The cloud specialist today expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. in a bid to better support organizations that are making the shift to ...
Report: Dropbox is working with Goldman Sachs to prepare for an IPO
Ten years after hitting the scene, file-sharing giant Dropbox Inc. may finally be ready to take the first serious steps towards an initial public offering of stock. The offering would present another sign that more technology companies are looking to IPO in a year in which offerings have come in fits and starts. Today, the ...
After dismissing acquisition rumors, Mitel picks up ShoreTel for $530M
Amid reports that team messaging giant Slack Technologies Inc. is looking to raise $250 million from investors, another major player in the enterprise communications industry has inked a nine-figure deal of its own. Mitel Networks Corp. today announced an agreement to acquire publicly traded competitor ShoreTel Inc. for $530 million in cash. The deal comes a ...
Callsign raises $35M to tailor authentication for every login
Multifactor authentication is one of the most reliable ways to combat account hijacking, but it’s typically applied in a fairly rigid way that requires users to perform the same verification steps regardless of the circumstances. London’s Callsign Ltd. today said it has secured a $35 million investment led by Accel and early-stage fund PTB Ventures ...
Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps
When Tricentis GmbH closed its massive $165 million funding round earlier this year, Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Johri suggested that some of the capital may go toward strategic acquisitions. The first such deal is now officially in the bag. The Vienna, Austria-based software testing provider said today it has picked up a startup called Flood ...
