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People.ai raises $7M to help salespeople land more deals
There’s still a long way to go before artificial intelligence could threaten to automate positions in areas such as sales that require a special human touch. But the technology can identify opportunities to increase output that might normally go unnoticed. That’s the value proposition put forth by People.ai Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on ...
Meet Intel’s new $1,999 flagship desktop processor
Moore’s Law, the reality that the number of transistors on a chip has doubled every couple of years for decades, may be increasingly difficult for the semiconductor industry to follow, but Intel Corp. has still managed to handily up the performance ante with its latest desktop processors. The chip maker today unveiled a new family of ...
Continuing tech IPO streak, finance software firm Alfa pops 30 percent in London debut
U.S.-based tech firms aren’t the only ones benefiting from investors’ strong appetite for software. Alfa Financial Software Holdings Plc, a British provider of finance tools, saw its valuation surge after hitting the London Stock Exchange in an initial public offering on Friday. Bloomberg reports that the company’s shares rose as much as 30 percent above ...
Rulai raises $6.5M to help companies build multipurpose chatbots
Since chatbots hit Silicon Valley’s radar a few quarters ago, barely a week goes by without a funding announcement from a startup that’s involved in the trend. On cue, Campbell, California-based Rulai entered the spotlight on Thursday with $6.5 million in fresh capital and a toolkit designed to ease the creation of virtual assistants. The ...
Demandbase raises $65M to help business-to-business firms drive more sales
Like their peers in the consumer market, business-to-business companies increasingly rely on online ads as part of their marketing efforts. The difference is that they try to a narrower group of users with authority to make purchases on behalf of their firms, which requires more fine-grained audience visibility than what traditional outreach tools offer. Demandbase Inc. is ...
Red Hat picks up development tools maker Codenvy
Red Hat Inc.’s lineup of development automation tools is set to receive a major boost. The open-source giant today revealed that it has acquired Codenvy Inc., the startup behind the popular Eclipse Che coding platform. The software, which is available under an Apache 2.0 license, boasts a fast-growing user base that clocks up to an estimated ...
Tableau offers up new machine learning, hybrid cloud features to data pros
Tableau Software Inc. wants to reduce the amount of effort involved in creating dashboards using its popular data visualization platform. The company today debuted a new release of the product that aims to streamline several key parts of the workflow, starting with the task of preparing information for use. Tableau 10.3 employs machine learning algorithms to ...
Google, IBM and Lyft team up for Istio, a new open-source microservices project
More and more companies are abandoning the traditional approach of deploying software as a tightly integrated package in favor of the microservices model, which relies on loosely coupled containers. This method can streamline management operations a great deal, but also introduces new challenges that are emerging as a major obstacle. Google Inc., IBM Corp. and ...
Report: Microsoft acquires $100M for AI security startup Hexadite
A month after word leaked that it had acquired infrastructure monitoring specalist Cloudyn Software Ltd. for as much as $70 million, Microsoft Corp. is reportedly making another purchase in Israel. Hebrew-language financial publication Calcalist revealed on Wednesday that the technology giant has agreed to buy Hexadite Ltd. in a $100 million deal. The startup sells ...
Report: SoftBank has bought a $4B stake in Nvidia
SoftBank Group Corp. is building up quite the investment portfolio. A Bloomberg report published today cited anonymous sources as saying that the Japanese telecommunications giant has quietly acquired 4.9 percent of Nvidia Corp.’s stock, becoming its fourth-largest stakeholder. The insiders claim that the investment is worth $4 billion, just below the threshold past which SoftBank ...
