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Nantero raises $21M to harness carbon nanotubes for data storage
While Intel Corp. works to commercialize its bleeding-edge XPoint memory technology, an up-and-coming contender called Nantero Inc. is rapidly gaining ground. The nanotechnology startup marked another milestone in its efforts today after securing a $21 million funding round led by Globespan Capital Partners. The venture firm, which previously backed tech giants such as Zynga Inc. and ...
Google opens up tool to visualize complex big data used by AIs
Modern data visualization tools such as Tableau and QlikView make it possible to create all kinds of sophisticated business graphs, but certain information is simply too complex to fit on a regular two-dimensional dashboard. In an effort to fill the gap, Google Inc.’s research unit on Wednesday announced that it has open-sourced a data navigation ...
Sauce Labs makes its first acquisition following $70M funding round
Development automation provider Sauce Labs Inc. is already starting to make use of the $70 million that investors put into its war chest last month. The startup, which claims to operate the industry’s most popular software testing platform, has acquired a low-key rival called TestObject GmbH for an undisclosed sum. The Berlin-based firm offers a ...
Talla launches a workflow automation chatbot for HR teams
Chatbots are finding use in more and more parts of the enterprise. Talla Inc., a startup backed by Avalon Ventures and Pillar, wants to add human relations departments to the list with a new personnel management agent that it’s rolling out today. The bot is the first component of what the firm hopes will eventually become ...
Watch out, Intel: Qualcomm’s newest chip breaks the 10-nanometer barrier
More and more semiconductor makers are challenging Intel Corp. in the server market. Qualcomm Technologies Inc., which is best known for its mobile chips, moved to the head of the pack today after introducing a new 48-core data center processor. The chip ups the industry ante on computational density. Referred to as the Centriq 2400, it’s based ...
Kenna raises $15M to help companies find hidden security risks
Fixing every security vulnerability in a large enterprise with thousands or tens of thousands of endpoints is practically impossible. San Francisco’s Kenna Security Inc. aims to help address that problem. The startup, which works with dozens of Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo Inc. and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., secured a $15 million funding round this ...
IBM launches new cloud service to speed app development
Like every other part of a software project, the various tools that companies use to build and maintain their applications can often take a lot of effort to manage. IBM Corp. hopes to ease the task with a new cloud service called Bluemix Continuous Delivery. The service provides a hosted environment for running development workflows. According ...
Verizon sells 29 data centers to Equinix for $3.6B
In the latest deal the roll up corporate data centers into independent providers, Equinix Inc. said today it’s buying 29 of Verizon Communications Inc.’s data centers for $3.6 billion. The deal comes a month after CenturyLink Inc. sold 57 data centers to a Wall Street consortium for $2.15 billion. Verizon agreed to offload its cloud facilities ...
HPE’s data navigation engine can now answer questions like a chatbot
The swift rise of chatbots in the enterprise has not gone unnoticed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., which today is rolling out a new release of IDOL, its data navigation engine, that adds a natural-language query mechanism for easing searches. The feature enables workers to explore their organizations’ information troves using the same type of plain ...
Security startup Secdo raises $10M to keep hackers out of enterprise devices
With new malicious software strains such as Mirai and the recently discovered Googlian virus infecting millions of devices at a time, companies have more reason than ever to invest in endpoint protection software. One of the startups fighting for a piece of the pie is the New York-based Secdo Inc., which today announced it has ...
