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Salesforce expands cloud portfolio with new Easy CRM offering
Salesforce Inc. today introduced Easy CRM, a new offering designed to help companies more easily adopt its customer relationship management platform. Companies use Salesforce’s CRM platform to store data about sales opportunities. As part of its product portfolio, the software-as-a-service giant also provides a variety of other products for performing tasks such as running marketing ...
Report: TikTok’s in-app browser can track users’ website activity
TikTok can track how users interact with websites that they access through the app’s built-in browser, Forbes reported on Thursday. TikTok enables users to open websites through the app interface by tapping on links and ads. The app doesn’t load websites in an external browser such as Chrome, but rather uses a built-in browser. That ...
Report: Qualcomm plans to return to the server chip market
Qualcomm Inc. plans to return to the server chip market four years after exiting the segment, Bloomberg reported today. Sources familiar with Qualcomm’s plans told Bloomberg that company is seeking customers for a new processor built to power servers. According to the sources, Amazon Web Services Inc. has agreed to evaluate the processor. AWS, the ...
Google will update its search engine to prioritize high-quality content more effectively
Google LLC will update its search engine to display high-quality content more prominently in search results pages. The update will begin rolling out next week, Google detailed in its announcement of the move today. It’s the latest in a series of enhancements that the company has released since the start of the year to improve ...
Google adds more breach detection features to its Chronicle cybersecurity platform
Google LLC is updating its Chronicle cybersecurity platform with new features that will enable enterprises to provide more effective detection of cyberattacks targeting their infrastructure. The company announced the update today. Chronicle is a SIEM, or security information and event management, platform provided by Google. A SIEM platform is a type of cybersecurity application that can ...
Google Cloud to discontinue its IoT Core service in 2023
Google LLC’s cloud business has notified customers that its IoT Core service for managing connected devices will be discontinued, TechCrunch reported today. Google plans to discontinue the service on Aug. 16, 2023. The search giant recommends that customers begin moving applications built on IoT Core to other products in the same category. Companies are deploying ...
HiBob raises $150M for its cloud-based HR platform
Human resource management startup HiBob today announced that it has raised $150 million in a late-stage funding round, less than a year after closing another $150 million investment. HiBob’s latest raise, a Series D round, was led by General Atlantic at a $2.45 billion valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners and a number of existing investors participated ...
Networking startup DriveNets raises $262M in new funding
Startup DriveNets Ltd., which makes software that telecommunications carriers use to manage their network infrastructure, today announced that it has closed a $262 million funding round led by D2 Investments. According to DriveNets, the Series C round has “considerably” increased its valuation. The startup received a valuation of more than $1 billion after its previous ...
Broadcom debuts new high-speed networking chip for data centers
Chipmaker Broadcom Inc. today introduced the StrataXGS Tomahawk 5, a new processor chip designed to power data center switches. Many enterprise applications are too computationally intensive to run on a single server. As a result, companies often distribute applications across multiple servers. Those machines are linked to one another by a network that they use ...
Cloud optimization startup Sync Computing raises $15.5M
Sync Computing Corp., a startup helping enterprises increase the efficiency of their cloud-based data analytics environments, today announced that it has closed a $15.5 million funding round. The Series A round was led by Costanoa Ventures. Multiple existing backers and angel investors participated as well. According to Crunchbase, the company has raised a total of ...