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Decibel picks up $40M in funding to optimize customer experience with AI
London-based startup Decibel Insight Ltd. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding for its customer experience analytics platform, which is used by Adidas AG, Sony Corp. and about 200 other companies on the Fortune Global 500 list. Private equity firm Perwyn led the round. The financing represents an expansion of a $17 million ...
Docker and Microsoft join forces to simplify container projects on Azure
Ahead of its virtual DockerCon event on Thursday, Docker Inc. today revealed an expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see the companies collaborate to ease development projects for their customers. Microsoft, like the other major infrastructure-as-a-service providers, has added extensive support for software containers to its public cloud to address the industry shift towards ...
Google unveils new Search and Maps features to aid local businesses
Google LLC today announced new features for Search and Maps to help small businesses connect with customers amid the coronavirus pandemic. The updates are being introduced following what Jen Fitzpatrick, Google’s senior vice president of Maps, described as a more than 700% jump in interest around the search phase “how to help small businesses” since ...
StrandHogg 2.0 vulnerability in Android lets hackers hijack apps to steal victims’ data
Researchers at a Norwegian cybersecurity firm have discovered a vulnerability in Android that can be exploited by malicious apps to steal user data such as passwords, files and text message conversation logs. Promon AS, the firm that identified the vulnerability, publicly shared its findings today. Google LLC rolled out a patch a few weeks ago ...
Arm unleashes a new wave of chip designs for high-end mobile devices
Arm Ltd., the top maker of semiconductor designs for smartphones, today introduced a new lineup of chips that includes its fastest central processing unit yet, a graphics processing unit for speeding up mobile video games and an enhanced artificial intelligence accelerator. U.K.-based Arm doesn’t make chips itself but rather sells blueprints under license to semiconductor ...
Akamai’s new AI-based Page Integrity Manager takes on malicious site scripts
The sharp rise in the number of people shopping online has increased the risk posed by web skimming campaigns, cyberattacks that compromise websites with malicious scripts to steal credit card details. To tackle this threat and other script-based attacks, Akamai Technologies Inc. today launched a new cybersecurity product called Page Integrity Manager. Page Integrity Manager uses ...
GitLab 13 rolls out with new cybersecurity features and more analytics
GitLab Inc. today launched a new round-number release of its popular code hosting platform that brings more cybersecurity features, a productivity analytics tool and better support for Kubernetes environments. GitLab, valued at $2.75 billion after its most recent funding round, is one of the main competitors to Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub. Its namesake platform provides an ...
Samsung starts building cutting-edge 5-nanometer chip production line
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun work on a new chip production line in South Korea that will make cutting edge five-nanometer chips for use cases such as 5G networks and artificial intelligence. The electronics giant detailed the project on Thursday, saying that production is expected to begin in the second half of 2021. The ...
Facebook will allow some employees to work from home permanently
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said today that the company will allow some employees to work remotely on a permanent basis and indicated a majority of its workforce could eventually shift to a remote model. Zuckerberg detailed the plan in his weekly livestreamed broadcast. As a first step, the company will open most new ...
Report: Amazon sets new date for Prime Day as it seeks to resume normal operations
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly scheduled its multibillion-dollar Prime Day event for September and scaled back some shipping caps, a potential sign the company’s supply chain is starting to return to normal operations. Amazon in March stopped processing nonessential third-party merchandise to free up warehouse capacity for orders of household essentials such as toiletries. Not long after, a report ...