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VMware acquires startup E8 Security to bolster its device management capabilities
VMware Inc. today revealed that it has acquired E8 Security Inc., a Redwood City, California-based startup that develops software for protecting employee devices from online threats. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Sumit Dhawan, the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s End-User Computing group, shared in a blog post ...
Ubiquity6 nabs $10.5M in funding to fill AR’s missing pieces
The challenge of making augmented reality appealing enough for mainstream adoption has caught the attention of both tech giants such as Google LLC and emerging startups. One of the newest players in the race is eight-month-old Ubiquity6 Inc., which today announced that it has secured a $10.5 million funding round. Index Ventures led the investment, joined ...
Pure Storage introduces AIRI, a beefy machine for AI workloads
Pure Storage Inc. today unveiled AIRI, a new hardware platform built in collaboration with graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. that targets enterprises pursuing large-scale artificial intelligence initiatives. Introduced at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, the system is a “fully integrated” solution that cuts the complexity of creating an AI environment, the companies said. It’s based ...
Chat-centered sales startup Intercom raises $125M on $1.3B valuation
Intercom Inc., a sales startup that enables companies to engage prospective customers automatically online, today announced that it has secured a hefty $125 million investment led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers. The venture capital firm was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV private equity arm and a number of returning investors. Their cash infusion brings Intercom’s ...
With new Experience Cloud updates, Adobe offers a unified customer view
Adobe Systems Inc. set a new sales record last quarter and handily beat analyst expectations thanks to a strong increase in revenue from cloud services. At an event in Las Vegas today, the company unveiled new features aimed at continuing that momentum. The focus of the upgrade is Experience Cloud, the suite of services that ...
In latest win over Amazon Web Services, Google inks cloud deal with Shopify
Google LLC is kicking off the week with a major customer win in the public cloud. Dale Neufeld, the vice president of production engineering at Shopify Inc., revealed in a blog post today that the e-commerce giant is shifting its back-end systems to Google Cloud Platform. The companies didn’t divulge the financial terms of the ...
New DeepMind research applies ‘neuron deletion’ to improve AI models
Artificial intelligence algorithms are highly sophisticated constructs that can contain an eye-watering number of neurons and internal connections. This gives them the power to handle a wide range of complex tasks, but also makes it tricky for researchers to understand the way conclusions are made and how the process can be improved. On Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s ...
GitLab brings code integration and delivery to rival hosting service GitHub
GitLab Inc. today rolled out a new release of its widely used code hosting platform that makes one of the software’s most important capabilities available to customers of top rival GitHub Inc. Companies that store their software projects on GitHub now have the ability to use GitLab for their CI/CD workflows. CI/CD refers to a set of development ...
Cloudflare looks to fix app developers’ network blind spot with new monitoring tool
Modern mobile developers collect large volumes of diagnostics data from users’ app installations to ensure that performance is up to snuff. But they’ve historically had no easy way to gain the same insight into network usage, which is an equally important contributor to user experience. Cloudflare Inc. is today addressing this blind spot with the launch of Mobile ...
Microsoft introduces new AI tools for sales and marketing teams
Microsoft Corp. is once again doubling down on artificial intelligence and automation within its productivity portfolio. The company today unveiled a set of new AI tools designed to be used with Office 365 and the Dynamics 365 customer relationship management platform, its answer to Salesforce.com Inc. The main one is highlight Power BI Insights. According ...
