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Linear B raises $1.6M to boost software teams’ productivity with data and AI
Analytics has become an integral part of decision-making across almost every business function in the enterprise, from sales to human resources. But software engineering organizations often still operate without clear data about operations and developer productivity for lack of proper tooling. That’s the market gap Santa Monica, California-based Linear B Inc. is looking to fill. The ...
Google backs new WordPress initiative to build a cloud platform for local publishers
Google LLC has thrown its weight behind a new initiative from Automattic Inc., the maker of WordPress, that aims to create a low-cost publishing platform for small to medium-sized news organizations. The project officially launched today under the name Newspack. It places an emphasis on local outlets, which have been hit particularly hard by the well-documented ...
Salesforce strengthens Commerce Cloud with new AI services
Salesforce.com Inc. is infusing more artificial intelligence into its Commerce Cloud. The company today introduced a pair of new AI services for the e-commerce automation platform that aim to help retailers target online shoppers more effectively. Both offerings use Einstein, the machine learning layer that underpins Salesforce’s core services, and are exposed as application programming ...
AWS and Samsung back $30M round into energy-scavenging chip startup Wiliot
Cellular networks, televisions and other electronic devices give off so-called ambient energy that bounces around the atmosphere in the form of radio waves. Wiliot Inc., a startup led by former Intel Corp. engineers, is building a new kind of chip that scavenges this ambient energy to operate with no need for a battery or a ...
Slack reportedly will go public via a direct listing in the second quarter
Slack Technologies Inc. is reportedly preparing to hit the stock market through a direct listing, which would make it only the second major tech firm to go that route. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the company expects to go public between April and June. However, a final decision apparently has not ...
Apple said to be planning iPhone with 3 rear cameras this year
Apple Inc. plans to launch a trio of iPhones this year that will be headlined by a flagship with three rear cameras, according to a new report. The information leaked this morning by way of anonymous “people familiar with the matter” who spoke with the Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, a separate report revealed that ...
Report: Samsung will unveil foldable and Galaxy S10 phones on Feb. 20
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next-generation mobile devices are right around the corner. The phone maker today revealed that its annual Unpacked product event will take place on Feb. 20 in San Francisco. According to a Wall Street Journal report that coincided with the news, Samsung will use the conference to unveil its buzzed-about foldable handset. The ...
AMD debuts 7-nanometer processors for the consumer market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today debuted the world’s seven-nanometer graphics card for consumer devices along with power-efficient central processing units aimed at the same market. The Radeon VII marks a big improvement over AMD’s previous top-end consumer card. It uses roughly the same amount of power but offers significantly more computational power. Making the announcement at the ...
Microsoft targets shift workers with new mobile collaboration tools for Teams
Team collaboration services such as Slack are for the most part geared toward knowledge workers. Microsoft Corp., however, is taking a broader approach by targeting the 2 billion shift workers worldwide who spend most of their time outside a cubicle. The company today debuted new features for its Teams collaboration service that focus specifically on ...
Google Assistant can now translate conversations, book hotel rooms and more
Google LLC made its presence known at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas this week, introducing a slew of new capabilities and integrations for its voice assistant. The updates, announced Tuesday, tick several boxes in the search giant’s strategy for driving Google Assistant adoption. One is making the service more handy for users on ...