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Meritech leads $50M round into application connectivity startup Tray.io
Application integration startup Tray.io Inc. today announced that it has reeled in $50 million from a consortium led by early Facebook Inc. backer Meritech Capital Partners. The startup apparently isn’t in unicorn territory quite yet, with a source telling TechCrunch that the post-money valuation is “over $600 million.” But Tray.io may hit the $1 billion mark sooner rather than later: ...
AWS extends Amazon Translate to 2,804 language pairs, 6 more cloud regions
Amazon Web Services Inc. today added support for 22 new languages to Amazon Translate, expanding the usefulness of a service that already powers a massive variety of applications for its cloud customers. Amazon Translate is an automated translator that uses machine learning to convert text between languages. AWS provides it via a programming interface that ...
Intel teams with MediaTek to build high-speed 5G chips for tomorrow’s PCs
Intel Corp. has joined forces with fellow semiconductor maker MediaTek Inc. to build 5G modem chips aimed at enabling ultrafast internet connections on tomorrow’s personal computers. Announced today, the partnership will initially focus on laptops. Intel will define the “solution specification” for the planned 5G modems while Taiwan-based MediaTek is set to handle product development and manufacturing. On the ...
With Custom Labels, AWS lets customers train Rekognition for specific projects
Amazon Web Services Inc. today released a new feature for Amazon Rekognition that will enable the computer vision service to identify specific objects in images — such as products on a shelf or manufacturing components — even if they aren’t in its knowledge base. AWS is calling the feature Custom Labels. Anushri Mainthia, the senior product ...
Eirini 1.0 launch brings Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry closer together
The Cloud Foundry Foundation today launched the first stable, production-ready version of Eirini, an open-source technology that will enable enterprises to use Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry. Eirini version 1.0 is rolling out about a year after the project first entered incubation. It aims to broaden the appeal of Cloud Foundry, which is already used at ...
Amazon debuts the Dash Smart Shelf to gain a bigger presence in office supplies
After getting its Echo smart speakers into tens of millions of homes, Amazon.com Inc. is now hoping to establish a bigger presence in the workplace. The company on Thursday pulled back the curtains on the Dash Smart Shelf, an internet-connected scale for businesses that automatically reorders office supplies from Amazon when they’re about to run ...
Xerox to HP: Accept buyout offer or face proxy fight
Xerox Holdings Corp. is determined to see its $33.5 billion buyout bid for HP Inc. succeed. After receiving a formal rejection over the weekend, the copier and printer maker today sent a letter to the HP board pledging to take the offer to HP shareholders if a deal is not reached by Monday afternoon. The ...
Automation Anywhere lands $6.8B valuation with fresh $290M round
Robotic process automation provider Automation Anywhere Inc. has added another $290 million to its coffers through a Salesforce Ventures-led funding round it announced today. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and SoftBank Group Corp. chipped in too. SoftBank was the lead investor in Automation Anywhere’s previous $300 million round last November, which followed a $250 million raise just four ...
Cisco reportedly shakes up organization with executive and division changes
After its mixed earnings report last week, Cisco Systems Inc. is launching a major organizational reshuffle. That’s according to reports published on Wednesday in The Information and CRN, which both cited an internal email attributed to David Goeckeler, Cisco’s executive vice president and general manager of networking and security. Goeckeler wrote in the memo that the ...
Alibaba raises $11.2B from investors in year’s biggest stock sale
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised $11.2 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange today in the year’s biggest listing. The company structured the stock sale as a secondary offering, since it already trades on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s NYSE debut back in 2014 set a record as well at the time. Alibaba priced ...