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Google’s newest cloud service can manage ‘millions’ of connected devices
Google Inc. sees a major revenue opportunity in the connected devices that companies are deploying to monitor their operations and automate key activities. Today, the technology giant introduced a cloud service called Cloud IoT Core that provides a central hub from which those endpoints can be run. At its core is a management tool designed to ...
Intel and BMW expand self-driving car alliance to include Delphi
The logistical and technical challenges involved in producing autonomous vehicles are too large for any one company to tackle. As a result, the auto industry is seeing the emergence of alliances aimed at spreading out the work across the supply chain. One of the most promising such partnerships is the collaboration that Intel Corp. and ...
Database supplier MarkLogic doubles down on security in new release
Security is emerging as a major priority for MarkLogic Corp. in its efforts to stand out amid fierce competition in the database market. The company, which boasts Fortune 500 clients such as Johnson & Johnson Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, today released a new version of its NoSQL store with a host of features for protecting sensitive information. ...
Wall Street darling Symphony raises $63M for its secure chat service
Investors see a lot of growth potential in team communications. Today a consortium led by French banking giant BNP Paribas SA joined in with a $63 million round into Symphony Communication Services LLC, a fast-rising messaging startup based in Palo Alto, California. Its claim to fame is a chat service similar to Slack that provides file-sharing features, bots and ...
GrandCanals raises $4.8M to help retailers compete with Amazon
With Amazon.com Inc. working to make free same-day delivery a standard part of online shopping, smaller retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to meet consumer expectations. GrandCanals Inc. wants to help. The three-year-old startup, which secured $4.8 million in funding today, sells a service designed to help e-commerce companies find ways to streamline their shipping ...
Karamba raises $12M to protect connected cars from hacking
As the number of connected vehicles on the road continues to rise, fending off cyberattacks is becoming an increasingly important part of ensuring driver safety. A startup called Karamba Security Ltd. said today it has raised $12 million in funding to help the auto industry address the challenge. The two-year-old breach prevention provider sells a ...
With $10.3M in new funding, Terminus wants to bridge sales and marketing
After seeing revenue grow sixfold over the past year, Terminus Software LLC is launching the next phase of its effort to take on the account-based marketing world. The startup got some support for its mission with a fresh $10.3 million investment announced today. Atlanta Ventures and Edison Partners provided the biggest portion of the funding, while the rest ...
Salesforce’s new AI project aims to organize emails and documents
Salesforce.com Inc. believes that artificial intelligence could hold the key to tackling one of the biggest time sinks in the modern workplace: checking email. On Thursday, the company shared details about an internal project aimed at using deep learning to automatically summarize messages and documents so that they can be read more quickly. Salesforce is ...
More from Build: Microsoft unveils cross-device vision for Windows 10
After dedicating the first day of its Build 2017 conference to cloud services, Microsoft Corp. today shifted the focus to Windows 10, unveiling a slew of new updates for the operating system this morning that will affect both consumers and developers. The upshot is that the company built upon the personal computer may have finally crossed ...
Cisco picks up pioneering chatbot startup MindMeld for $125M
After dabbling with the technology here and there over the past few quarters, Cisco Systems Inc. is shifting its chatbot push into high gear. The networking giant today announced that it’s buying MindMeld Inc., an artificial intelligence startup founded by former MIT researcher Tim Tuttle, for $125 million. The deal buys Cisco a chatbot development ...
