Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
AWS bolsters AI services lineup with general availability of Fraud Detector
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Fraud Detector, a service that enables organizations to build customized machine learning models for catching fraudulent activity such as scam transactions. The service uses the same technology AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. employs to fight fraudulent activity on its e-commerce marketplace. According to the cloud giant, ...
Conexiom raises $40M from Iconiq Capital to automate enterprise transactions
Conexiom, a Canadian software-as-a-service provider focused on making companies’ sales processes more efficient, today said that it has landed $40 million in funding from Iconiq Capital. Iconiq Capital makes investments on behalf of a client roster that includes Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and other prominent tech figures. It’s backing ...
Commvault shatters earnings estimates as cloud strategy pays off
Shares of Commvault Systems Inc. rose more than 7% today after the data protection provider posted solid quarterly financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations by a wide margin. Tinton Falls, New Jersey-based Commvault provides software that helps organizations back up their records and protect them from risks such as hardware failures. Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Mirchandani (pictured) told SiliconANGLE ...
Google announces Grace Hopper subsea internet cable to link the U.S. and Europe
Google LLC today announced plans for a new subsea internet cable that will enable data to cross the Atlantic faster and advance the search giant’s cloud expansion roadmap. The cable is to be named after computer pioneer Grace Hopper. Bikash Koley, the vice president of global networking at Google, hailed the project as a “significant upgrade” ...
Microsoft wants to place hydrogen fuel cells in its cloud data centers
Microsoft Corp. wants to use hydrogen fuel cells to provide backup power for its Azure data centers and reduce carbon emissions. The company detailed its plans in a blog post today, saying that it has reached a notable technical milestone toward realizing that vision. Hydrogen fuel cells are an emerging type of generator designed to ...
Google tells employees that most won’t return to their offices for at least a year
Nearly all of Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc.’s roughly 200,000 employees will work from home at least July 2021, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai announced in an internal memo today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Pichai is said to have made the decision to extend the company’s telecommuting policy to ...
Coupa embeds more automation into its business spend platform
Publicly-traded Coupa Software Inc. today introduced an update for its BSM Platform that adds automation and analytics features to help optimize enterprises’ bottom line. The BSM Platform is a so-called business spend management product that is used by organizations to manage supplier payments, employee expenses and other types of spending. Coupa’s product is one of ...
Revolut raises $80M more at $5.5B valuation in latest fintech funding round
Mobile-first financial technology startups are continuing to draw investor interest. Revolut Ltd., the operator of a digital banking service that users can access via an app, today said that it has secured $80 million in fresh funding at a $5.5 billion valuation. The investment is an extension to a $500 million round the U.K.-based startup closed ...
U.S. officials detail plans to build a national quantum internet
The U.S. Department of Energy wants to develop a national quantum internet to enable more secure communications and advance scientific research in areas such as gravitational wave detection. Officials presented a blueprint strategy for the effort in a Thursday press conference at the University of Chicago. The 38-page paper outlines key goals, as well as ...
AWS launches AI-powered Contact Lens analytics features for contact centers
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Contact Lens, a set of artificial intelligence features to help optimize the contact centers of enterprises using its Amazon Connect service. The launch comes eight months after AWS first previewed the technology at its re:Invent conference. In recent years, enterprises have started modernizing how they ...