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Boosting Microsoft’s integration plans, LinkedIn releases new Windows 10 app
Microsoft Corp. is working hard to realize a return on the $26.2 billion that it paid to acquire LinkedIn last year. The company’s plan places a particular emphasis on product integrations, with the latest offering on the checklist being Windows 10. LinkedIn product manager Hermes Alvarez today announced the release of a new app for ...
Regulatory data upstart Assent Compliance closes $31M round
Maintaining regulatory compliance can be a major hassle in some industries, especially for large enterprises that operate across multiple jurisdictions. Assent Compliance Inc. has spent the last seven years working to ease the task. Today, the Ottawa-based company’s efforts received a new endorsement in the form of a $31.4 million investment led by Greenspring Associates. Assent will use ...
Pendo raises $25M to illuminate how users interact with applications
Besides visibility into how users interact with their applications, companies also need the ability to act upon the information so that they can address potential weak points. Pendo.io Inc. is one of the few providers that offer both capabilities in the same offering. The startup, which on Thursday announced the completion of a $25 million funding ...
Box debuts open-source building blocks for developers using its platform
Box Inc. has long enabled developers to integrate their services with its file sharing platform, but it has had to implement much of the necessary application logic from scratch. Today, that’s changing. The collaboration giant has unveiled a set of development building blocks called Elements for creating third-party services with content management features. It’s set to ...
Segment raises $64M to free brands’ customer data
The numerous channels through which companies engage customers nowadays provide a tremendous amount of information about their buying preferences. But marketing personnel often struggle to take full advantage of the data since it’s typically spread out between disparate systems, a problem that Segment Inc. has set out to solve. The startup’s efforts are supported by $64 million in ...
Cisco acquires cloud security startup Observable Networks
Alongside a steady inflow of venture capital, the cybersecurity industry is also seeing a great deal of merger and acquisition activity as leading technology suppliers work to bolster their network protection capabilities. The latest player to have entered the mergers and acquisitions spotlight is Cisco Systems Inc., which today picked up a startup called Observable ...
Eric Schmidt’s fund joins $7.5M round into cloud backup startup OwnBackup
While the industry’s leading software as a service providers take great pains to protect customer records, data loss is still a concern for companies due to risks such as user error and hacking. OwnBackup Ltd. is working to help organizations prepare for such contingencies. The startup’s efforts have today attracted a $7.5 million investment led by ...
Microsoft launches new lab to explore multi-purpose AI, adds ethics panel
Microsoft Corp. is investing heavily in artificial intelligence research to try to gain an edge over the other tech giants working to incorporate the technology into their products. As part of the push, the company today said it has set up a new lab at its Redmond, Washington headquarters that will focus on the development ...
Lightbend, the startup behind the Scala programming language, raises $15M
A recent developer survey from Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange Inc.) shows that only 4 percent of professional programmers use the scalable language Scala in their projects. That’s a far cry from the 38 percent market share of Java, the go-to language in the enterprise, but investors believe there’s a lot of potential for growth. A consortium ...
Report: Symantec may offload its troubled web certificate business
In parallel with its efforts to double down on high-growth areas such as endpoint security, Symantec Corp. has been working to scale back traditional businesses with more limited prospects. A new Reuters report indicates that the company’s web certificate group may be the next division to end up on the auction block. Three sources have ...
