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GV leads $14.5M round into collaborative AR startup Blue Vision Labs
Blue Vision Labs Inc. today exited stealth mode to tackle what it sees as a major barrier to widespread augmented reality adoption: Most AR applications don’t allow users to share virtual experiences with others. Along with the launch, the London-based startup announced that it has closed a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by GV, Alphabet ...
Amid growing competition, Adobe bolsters its electronic signature capabilities
Adobe Systems Inc.’s strategy for competing in the crowded document management segment rests on two pillars. The first is the ubiquitous Acrobat family of PDF editing tools, and the other is Adobe Sign, the company’s electronic signature service, which is receiving major update today. The biggest enhancement focuses on signature verification. Specifically, the upgraded Adobe Sign ...
SAP brings Concur expense management to Slack with two new chatbots
SAP SE is expanding the reach of Concur, the market-leading expense management service that it acquired for $8 billion in 2014. Concur Labs, an engineering group that SAP SE entrusts with developing new ways for workers to use the platform, today introduced two new chatbots that will extend its features to Slack. The first, Concur ...
Microsoft claims breakthrough with AI that translates news as well as a human
Microsoft Corp. researchers this morning revealed that they have developed an artificial intelligence capable of translating text with the same accuracy as a human. The system, which took three separate teams to build, is designed to translate sentences from Chinese news articles into English. It incorporates several emerging neural networking approaches to match human accuracy, including a few that Microsoft ...
AI-driven IT operations startup Moogsoft raises $40M round led by Goldman Sachs
Moogsoft Inc., a startup competing in an emerging market segment aimed at applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to information technology operations, today announced the completion of a late-stage $40 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s growth equity division. A half-dozen returning investors chipped into the Series D round as well. Among the ...
Salesforce to acquire business e-commerce startup CloudCraze
Salesforce.com Inc.’s latest acquisition focuses on addressing the rapid growth of the e-commerce market. The company late Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire CloudCraze LLC, a Chicago-based startup with a cloud platform for managing online storefronts. What sets the service apart is a specialized feature set geared not toward selling to consumers, but rather ...
Cloudflare’s new edge computing service aims to accelerate the web
Cloudflare Inc. today launched a new service to help companies speed up their online services by deploying code in closer physical proximity to users. The offering, which is called Cloudflare Workers, does so by harnessing the web optimization giant’s global network of 127 data centers. In a certain respect, this approach represents an evolution of the ...
Rundeck aims to automate IT with new “operations-as-a-service” tool
Rundeck is a low key open-source platform used at companies such as The Walt Disney Co., Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. to automate their infrastructure operations. Rundeck Inc., a venture-backed startup founded by the software’s creators, today pulled back the curtains on a commercial version of the project designed to bring its capabilities to ...
Microsoft Teams gets Cortana voice commands and other new AI features
Microsoft Corp. today marked the first anniversary of its fast-growing Slack alternative becoming generally available by introducing several major feature announcements centered on artificial intelligence. The first capability is an integration with the company’s Cortana virtual assistant that will allow workers to use spoken commands in Microsoft Teams. The initial voice controls will make it possible to join a ...
Former Docker CEO Ben Golub takes the reins at blockchain startup Storj Labs
Former Docker Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ben Golub, who helped turn the company from a fledgling startup into a major force in the software development world, is taking his expertise to a new area: the blockchain ecosystem. A decentralized storage startup called Storj Labs Inc. this morning named Golub (pictured) as its CEO. The company offers ...
