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Twilio’s new analytics service aims to help optimize web calls
While using Twilio Inc.’s communications APIs is much easier for developers than implementing VoIP functionality from scratch, enabling long-distance calls across different devices and browsers can still be a challenge. The vendor set out to ease the task today by launching a new analytics service called Voice Insights that promises to help pinpoint the technical ...
Google buys API.AI to boost its natural language processing chops
Barely 48 hours after picking up Urban Engines Inc. for its transportation intelligence platform, Google has announced another acquisition in the analytics space: API.AI Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of natural language processing technology for developers. The outfit’s flagship offering is a cloud-based chatbot building service that promises to automate most of the heavy lifting ...
Akamai’s new image loading service aims to speed up media-heavy sites
With HTTP Archive data indicating that images take up two-thirds of the average webpage’s storage footprint, it’s no surprise they’re such a big focus for content delivery providers. Akamai Technologies Inc. is doubling down today by introducing a new optimization option that promises to make sites with a lot of visual content perform better. Image ...
Checkmarx wants to help developers write more secure code
An organization’s security isn’t the responsibility of its IT department alone. Development teams need to be vigilant too and take measures to rid their software of vulnerabilities, a requirement that Checkmarx Ltd. wants to help address with the new training service that it unveiled this morning. AppSec Coach, as the tool is called, provides a ...
Network security giant Infoblox goes private in $1.6B deal
A few hours after news broke that traffic monitoring provider CyberFlow Analytics Inc. is being sold, the network protection industry is marking another major buyout. Infoblox Inc. announced that it has accepted a $1.6 million acquisition bid from Vista Equity Partners and will once again become a private company. The deal marks the latest in ...
Webroot buys machine learning specialist CyberFlow to boost its growth plans
Artificial intelligence is emerging on the development roadmaps of more and more security vendors. Among them is endpoint protection powerhouse Webroot Inc., which today acquired a low-key firm called CyberFlow Analytics Inc. that employs machine learning to monitor network activity. The firm’s flagship FlowScape platform scan the massive amounts of traffic that flow through an organization’s internal ...
What you missed in Big Data: New operational insights
Vendors are coming up with increasingly creative ways to tap the growing amounts of data on the web. BitSight Technologies Inc., for instance, aggregates information about hacker movements, exposed servers and other threats to track the online security landscape, an effort that attracted $40 million from investors last week. The capital will help drive the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Funding growth
Cloud startups continue to draw big investments from the venture capital community. Last week, Lucid Software Inc. added its name to the list by raising $36 million in funding from Spectrum Equity for its two managed design services. The first is called LucidChart and aims to ease the creation of wireframes for large digital projects ...
BitSight raises $40M to help companies quantify their security risks
There’s much more to cybersecurity than just fending off attacks against a company’s internal infrastructure. Organizations must also keep a close watch on partners, suppliers and customers who may make them indirectly vulnerable to hacking, a task that BitSight Technologies Inc. is working to ease with the support of GGV Capital. The venture firm today ...
Mirantis fast-tracks OpenStack expansion plans with acquisition
Mirantis Inc. isn’t afraid to change up its strategy when the situation calls for it. The company started out as an OpenStack consultancy in 2011, went on to become one of the top commercial distributors of the platform and is now moving into the managed services space by acquiring a competitor called TCP Cloud SA. ...