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GV-backed Mist offers new AI-powered automation for wireless networks
Mist Systems Inc., a high-profile networking startup backed by Alphabet Inc.’s GV, wants to automate enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure using artificial intelligence. Mist sells a platform called Learning WLAN that enables companies to build what it describes as “self-learning” wireless networks. The offering comprises an AI-infused management service and a family of Wi-Fi access points. Today, ...
EU lawmakers approve controversial copyright law targeting tech giants
The European Parliament today voted to approve controversial copyright legislation that seeks to overhaul the region’s digital content rules and takes direct aim at tech giants such as Google LLC. The Copyright Directive, as the proposal is called, passed with a majority of 438 to 226. An additional 39 lawmakers abstained. The vote comes two ...
Sumo Logic adds new tools to bring better security, analytics to IT operations
Sumo Logic Inc. today unveiled new tools designed to give enterprises more insight into their infrastructure and how operational efficiency can be improved. The additions, which are rolling out for the startup’s flagship log analytics platform, span several aspects of information technology teams’ work. Chief among them is security. The update introduces a tool that can ...
Facebook has built an AI called Rosetta to analyze 1B+ user images a day
Facebook Inc.’s more than 2.2 billion users share a staggering number of images on the platform each day that the social giant needs to catalog, add to search results and scan for harmful content. A big portion of those images contain text that must be analyzed as well. To handle this monumental task, the company ...
Intel acquires system-on-chip startup NetSpeed Systems
Intel Corp. today revealed that it has acquired NetSpeed Systems Inc., a venture-backed startup founded in 2011 with the goal of speeding up semiconductor design. NetSpeed’s focus area is system-on-chip development. An SoC is an integrated circuit that combines a processor with essential peripheral components such as memory in a single, compact unit. Such chips are ...
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 ...