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Automation Anywhere adds new tool and services to ease enterprise RPA programs
Automation Anywhere Inc. today debuted a new assessment tool and professional services offerings to assist enterprises with implementing robotic process automation in their operations. Robotic process automation, or RPA, refers to a category of software platforms that use artificial intelligence to perform repetitive business chores normally carried out by a firm’s employees. Automation Anywhere is ...
Report: Western Digital in talks for $20B+ merger with flash chip maker Kioxia
Shares of data storage giant Western Digital Corp. jumped 7.8% today after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is holding merger talks with Kioxia Holdings Corp., a major flash memory manufacturer. The deal could be worth more than $20 billion, the Journal’s sources said. The sources believe that Western Digital and Kioxia could ...
Involve.ai raises $16M to boost companies’ customer retention rates with AI
Involve.ai Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to help enterprises improve their customer retention rates, today announced that it has closed a $16 million funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Greycroft, Stanford University and more than a half-dozen other investors participated in the round as well. The funding follows 12 months of rapid growth for ...
Cribl raises $200M to simplify how enterprises monitor their IT infrastructure
Startup Cribl Inc., which helps organizations such as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory find technical issues in their technology infrastructure, today announced that it has closed a $200 million funding round. Greylock and Redpoint Ventures led the round. They were joined by publicly traded cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike Inc., IVP, Sequoia, CRV and Citi Ventures. Organizations continuously ...
New $300M round brings fintech startup Ramp’s valuation to $3.9B
Financial technology startup Ramp Business Corp. has raised a $300 million funding round that was led by Founders Fund and saw the participation of payments giant Stripe Inc., as well as more than a half-dozen other investors. Ramp announced the round today. The startup said it’s now valued at $3.9 billion, more than twice what ...
AWS expands cloud backup capabilities with AWS Backup Audit Manager
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched AWS Backup Audit Manager, a cloud tool that companies can use to check if their data protection processes are working as intended and complying with regulations. Enterprises regularly create backup copies of their data to prepare for the risk that some information may become unavailable because of a technical ...
IT observability unicorn Grafana Labs valued at $3B in new $220M round
Grafana Labs Inc., the startup commercializing one of the most popular open-source tools for finding issues in information technology infrastructure, today announced that it has closed a $220 million funding round. The Series C round gives the startup a valuation of $3 billion. Sequoia Capital and Coatue Management jointly led the investment. They were joined ...
Misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps applications found to expose 38M records
Misconfigured applications built using Microsoft Corp.’s Power Apps platform made 38 million records publicly available on the open web, according to newly released cybersecurity research. The data leaks were the result of a default setting in the platform that made applications’ information data accessible without a password. The research detailing the issue was published today ...
Shelf.io raises $52.5M for its AI-powered enterprise knowledge platform
Startup Shelf.io today announced that it has raised $52.5 million in funding after quadrupling sales of its enterprise knowledge management platform over the preceding year. Shelf.io, officially Gemshelf Inc., says its platform can help companies’ employees find answers to work-related questions faster. The software uses an artificial intelligence engine the startup calls MerlinAI to scan ...
Intel wins Defense Department contract for cutting-edge chip foundry services
Intel Corp. today disclosed that it has won a contract to provide chip manufacturing services to the U.S. Department of Defense. The contract was issued as part of a government initiative known as the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial program, or RAMP-C for short. RAMP-C aims to encourage the use of a U.S.-based chip ...