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With Accengage buy, Urban Airship aims to become mobile engagement powerhouse
Mobile users accounted for an estimated 57 percent of web traffic in the U.S. last year. Urban Airship Inc., a marketing technology startup backed by $100 million from investors, today acquired fellow startup Accengage SA to secure a leadership position in this key market. Both companies compete in the customer engagement market. They provide platforms that enable ...
Microsoft inks broad cloud deal with Walgreens to power new healthcare services
With its latest cloud deal, Microsoft Corp. will gain nearly 400,000 new Office 365 users and a bigger presence in the $3.5 trillion U.S. healthcare sector. The company today announced that Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., the largest drugstore chain in the U.S., will move the bulk of its backend technology infrastructure to the Azure cloud ...
German court dismisses Qualcomm suit against Apple, but legal fight continues
A court in the German city of Mannheim has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Qualcomm Inc. against Apple Inc. as part of their ongoing legal feud, but the high-profile dispute is continuing elsewhere. The court issued its decision in an initial verbal statement today. A more complete written version is set to be released later, but ...
With new $261M round, data management firm Rubrik more than doubles valuation to $3.3B
Data backup unicorn Rubrik Inc. today announced that it has reeled in $261 million from a group of blue-chip investors to carve out a bigger slice of the data management market. The round saw the participation of Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and IVP. Their investment brings Rubrik’s valuation to an ...
Linear B raises $1.6M to boost software teams’ productivity with data and AI
Analytics has become an integral part of decision-making across almost every business function in the enterprise, from sales to human resources. But software engineering organizations often still operate without clear data about operations and developer productivity for lack of proper tooling. That’s the market gap Santa Monica, California-based Linear B Inc. is looking to fill. The ...
Google backs new WordPress initiative to build a cloud platform for local publishers
Google LLC has thrown its weight behind a new initiative from Automattic Inc., the maker of WordPress, that aims to create a low-cost publishing platform for small to medium-sized news organizations. The project officially launched today under the name Newspack. It places an emphasis on local outlets, which have been hit particularly hard by the well-documented ...
Salesforce strengthens Commerce Cloud with new AI services
Salesforce.com Inc. is infusing more artificial intelligence into its Commerce Cloud. The company today introduced a pair of new AI services for the e-commerce automation platform that aim to help retailers target online shoppers more effectively. Both offerings use Einstein, the machine learning layer that underpins Salesforce’s core services, and are exposed as application programming ...
AWS and Samsung back $30M round into energy-scavenging chip startup Wiliot
Cellular networks, televisions and other electronic devices give off so-called ambient energy that bounces around the atmosphere in the form of radio waves. Wiliot Inc., a startup led by former Intel Corp. engineers, is building a new kind of chip that scavenges this ambient energy to operate with no need for a battery or a ...
Slack reportedly will go public via a direct listing in the second quarter
Slack Technologies Inc. is reportedly preparing to hit the stock market through a direct listing, which would make it only the second major tech firm to go that route. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the company expects to go public between April and June. However, a final decision apparently has not ...
Apple said to be planning iPhone with 3 rear cameras this year
Apple Inc. plans to launch a trio of iPhones this year that will be headlined by a flagship with three rear cameras, according to a new report. The information leaked this morning by way of anonymous “people familiar with the matter” who spoke with the Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, a separate report revealed that ...
