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Salesforce’s MuleSoft brings its API platform to Google Cloud, plugs in BigQuery
MuleSoft LLC is giving enterprises more choice of where they run its software. The Salesforce.com Inc. subsidiary today revealed plans to make its Anypoint Runtime Fabric available on Google Cloud and said it’s adding a connector for the search giant’s BigQuery data warehouse. Anypoint Runtime Fabric is the linchpin of MuleSoft’s flagship Anypoint Platform, a ...
Adobe launches full customer data platform, with new data wrangling features
Six months after releasing its customer data platform into beta, Adobe Systems Inc. today announced the general availability of the offering and two other tools aimed at helping enterprise marketers gain a better understanding of their target buyers. The term customer data platform, or CDP, covers a relatively new category of solutions that enable companies to ...
Help desk automation startup Moveworks lands $75M round
When employees at Autodesk Inc. and Nutanix Inc. submit a support ticket to the information technology department, their issue is oftentimes resolved before an administrator even gets around to reading the request. The two tech firms are among the growing list of companies using help desk automation technology from Moveworks Inc., a three-year-old startup that ...
In a win for Microsoft, Salesforce will migrate its Marketing Cloud to Azure
Salesforce.com Inc. will move its Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure platform as part of a new hosting deal the companies revealed today. It’s safe to assume the contract is quite large even though the tech giants didn’t disclose any financial details. Marketing Cloud is a suite of advertising tools, analytics features and related products ...
Google completes its 6,500-mile Curie subsea internet cable to Chile
Google LLC today announced that it has finished installing and testing Curie, a 6,500-mile submarine internet cable connecting the United States with Chile. The project’s completion comes seven months after the tip of the network link touched down in Valparaíso, a Chilean port city about 75 miles northwest of the capital Santiago. The other end ...
Google is teaming up with banks to launch a checking account service
Google LLC wants a bigger slice of the financial services market. In a Wall Street Journal interview published today, Caesar Sengupta, the head of the company’s Payments group, revealed that his unit is building a checking account service for consumers. The offering is codenamed “Cache” internally and is expected to go online as soon as ...
Container shakeup: Docker sells enterprise business to Mirantis, appoints new CEO
Software container pioneer Docker Inc. is selling off its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. as part of a shakeup that will also see Scott Johnston, formerly its head of product, take over the reins as chief executive officer. The company announced the news this morning. Docker has raised $35 million in fresh funding from Benchmark Capital and ...
Apple’s new MacBook Pro ditches the butterfly keyboard, adds AMD graphics chips
Apple Inc. today introduced a new 16-inch version of its MacBook Pro laptop that packs much faster internals and does away with the previous models’ butterfly keyboard, which represented one of the most controversial design decisions in the company’s recent history. First, the display: Apple managed to pack the new 16-inch screen into a laptop ...
Cnvrg.io picks up $8M for its collaborative AI development platform
Machine learning models are more often built by teams than individual developers because of their complexity. As a result, an engineer working on a neural network needs not only suitable programming tools but also the means to coordinate with their colleagues, a requirement that Cnvrg.io Inc. has set out to address. The New York-based startup, ...
Five9 buys Whendu to shift more enterprise contact centers to the cloud
Five9 Inc., a publicly traded provider of cloud services for running enterprise contact centers, today announced its first acquisition since 2013. The company is buying SpiderMonkey LLC, a small startup based out of the San Francisco Bay Area that does business as Whendu. It offers a tool that makes it easier to integrate an organization’s contact center systems ...