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Hitachi launches a privacy-aware video analytics platform
Besides powering autonomous vehicles and other cutting-edge systems, computer vision technology is also creating new applications for the traditional closed-circuit camera. Hitachi Ltd. hopes to capitalize on the opportunity with a new analytics platform that promises to help organizations unlock the full potential of their video data. Hitachi Video Analytics sets itself apart by tackling ...
Former Apple engineers raise $25M for networking startup SnapRoute
Despite facing a tremendous amount of competition from other software-defined networking providers, SnapRoute Inc. has had no trouble attracting investor interest. As a matter of fact, Chief Executive Jason Forrester told Business Insider that seven different “Tier 1” venture firms approached his team in the run-up to the $25 million funding round it announced today. One ...
Chorus.ai raises $16M to help salespeople learn from every call
There are countless services out there that promise to help salespeople gain a better understanding of prospects, but according to Chorus.ai Ltd, many of them overlook a major source of insight: phone calls. The two-year-old startup announced today that it has closed $16 million in funding to unlock the information that can be gleaned from talking ...
Druva tackles ransomware with new analytics-powered data recovery
The hardest part of dealing with a ransomware attack often isn’t removing the malicious payload but rather recovering the files lost in the attack, a challenge that Druva Inc. has taken it upon itself to address. The Sequoia-backed data protection provider is launching a set of new features for its InSync platform today aimed at ...
Equinix continues expansion efforts with UK data center deal
Two months after buying 29 of Verizon Communications Inc.’s cloud facilities for $3.6 billion, Equinix Inc. is expanding once again. The infrastructure giant announced today that it’s taking over IO Data Centers LLC’s operations in the strategically placed English town of Slough, which sits 21 miles west of London. At the heart of the deal is a ...
Report: Amazon keeps massive cloud lead despite disappointing earnings
Investors were disappointed Thursday after Amazon.com Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings report revealed that its cloud business grew less than what analysts had expected. But according to Synergy Research Group Inc., Amazon Web Services is still going as strong as ever from a competitive standpoint. The firm on Thursday released a report for the fourth quarter that ...
MapAnything raises $33.1M to become the Waze of field operations
For consumers, planning a travel route is as easy as inputting a few commands into the Google Inc. traffic app Waze. But field personnel often don’t have the same luxury thanks to the complexity of their schedules, a discrepancy that MapAnything Inc. has taken upon itself to tackle. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based startup on Thursday ...
Xnor.io raises $2.6M to bring machine vision to every device
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where self-driving cars can recognize and avoid potential dangers better than humans in some cases. But doing so requires a great of deal of processing power, a barrier that Seattle’s Xnor.io Inc. wants to remove. The startup today closed a $2.4 million seed investment to make machine vision technology ...
Salesforce.com buys creative agency Sequence to bolster its UX chops
A month into 2017, Salesforce.com Inc. has already made its first acquisition of the year. The company on the other end of the deal wasn’t a startup like most of the cloud giant’s recent acquisitions, but rather an 11-year-old creative agency called Sequence. Roy Jojo, the firm’s chief executive, broke the news in a blog ...
Security startup Bitglass broadens its cloud focus, adds Amazon support
After spending its first four years helping companies protect the data they keep in Office 365 and other leading cloud apps, Bitglass Inc. is moving into the broader cloud computing market. The startup kicked off the expansion into infrastructure-as-a-service today by adding support for market leader Amazon Web Services to its flagship reverse proxy. Described as ...
