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Adobe upgrades its Marketing Cloud to address the rise of smart speakers and AR
Customizing content based on user preferences is a core tenant of marketing in the digital era. Today, Adobe Systems Inc. debuted new features for its Marketing Cloud aimed at enabling companies to deliver personalization via the new engagement channels that have emerged in recent years. At the top of provider’s checklist are smart speakers. The reasons why ...
Cisco joins the AI hardware fray with new deep learning server powered by 8 GPUs
Cisco Systems Inc. today became the latest data center equipment maker to introduce a system optimized for artificial intelligence. The company has pulled back the curtains on the UCS C480 ML M5, a new four-rack-unit server specifically built to run processor-intensive deep learning workloads. The machine joins Cisco’s Unified Computing System family. UCS servers combine compute ...
Software security startup Sonatype lands $80M in new funding
After growing revenues 81 percent in the first half of 2018, fast-rising software security provider Sonatype Inc. today announced that it has secured a $80 million round led by private-equity heavyweight TPG LLC. Maryland-based Sonatype sells a platform that enables companies to control what goes into their applications. The software, dubbed Nexus, focuses on mitigating the potential ...
Unicorn sighting: Incident response startup PagerDuty raises $90M at $1.3B valuation
PagerDuty Inc., a startup that helps engineers spot and respond to technical problems, today announced that it has secured $90 million in new financing at a $1.3 billion valuation. The round included a Who’s Who of institutional backers. Wall Street giants T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and Wellington Management Group LLC led the investment, with ...
Lyft launches its scooter-sharing service in Denver with an eye to expansion
Like rival Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. is expanding its focus beyond ride-sharing to other modes of transport. The company today took the effort a big step forward by launching an electric scooter service in Denver. The move comes two months after Lyft followed Uber into the alternative transportation market with the acquisition of Motivate ...
Salesforce introduces new automation features for salespeople and marketers
Salesforce.com Inc. today introduced new capabilities, including some powered by artificial intelligence, to make the salespeople and marketers using its services more productive. The two biggest additions are rolling out for the company’s flagship Sales Cloud. Work Queues, the first new tool, uses machine learning to determine which leads should be prioritized based on their likelihood ...
Enterprise search engine powerhouse Elastic files to go public
Hot on the heels of a report that claimed Elasticsearch BV had secretly submitted preliminary paperwork for a stock market debut, the company today officially filed to go public. The move comes six years after it first opened for business in Amsterdam. The company, which is now headquartered in California and does business as Elastic, ...
Airbnb expands its enterprise business with new offerings for companies
Since launching a business travel offering in 2014 to attract corporate customers, Airbnb Inc. has seen this part of its online rental marketplace grow to account for 15 percent of total bookings. Today, the hospitality juggernaut is moving to expand the operation even further. Airbnb has added three new offerings to Airbnb for Work that ...
BitSight seeks to ease cybersecurity planning with new forecasting service
Recent years have seen the rise of so-called security ratings providers that specialize in supplying enterprises with data about vulnerabilities in their infrastructure and supply chains. BitSight Technologies Inc., one of those providers, hopes to set itself apart with a new offering called BitSight Forecasting. Introduced today, the solution aims to help firms act upon ...
Munich Re to acquire IoT startup relayr for $300M as it moves deeper into tech
Munich Re Group has established a sizable presence in the startup ecosystem by backing emerging players across various growth segments. Now, the Germany-based global insurance giant is moving more directly into tech by acquiring one of its portfolio companies. Munich Re today announced plans to buy relayr Inc., a Boston-based provider of “internet of things” ...