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Lyft acquires AR startup Blue Vision to boost self-driving car plans
Lyft Inc. today announced that it has acquired a young augmented reality startup called Blue Vision Ltd. to boost its autonomous driving roadmap. The deal is valued at $72 million and allocates up to $30 million in additional compensation if certain performance goals are met, according to TechCrunch. For reference, Blue Vision exited stealth mode a mere ...
SAP debuts new enterprise AI tools for automating customer support and more
SAP SE is injecting more artificial intelligence into its portfolio. At an event in Barcelona today, the company unveiled a collection of tools aimed at opening up new ways for enterprise customers to harness AI. The additions range from point solutions focused on highly specific tasks to software intended to automate entire workflows. The most expansive of the ...
Oracle to acquire Goldman Sachs-backed sales intelligence startup DataFox
Oracle Corp. late Monday announced plans to acquire DataFox Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that provides sales intelligence for business-to-business companies. DataFox hit the scene in 2013 and has since built up a sizable customer roster spanning multiple segments. MongoDB Inc., Bain & Co., Twilio Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among the organizations that ...
Sisense launches Hunch, an AI engine for bringing complex analytics to the edge
Sisense Inc. believes there’s a better way to process information at the edge. The DFJ-backed analytics startup today unveiled Hunch, an artificial intelligence engine that it claims can condense large datasets into a size manageable even for connected devices. The software does so by creating a neural network that acts as a stand-in, taking up only megabytes ...
Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe exits Facebook in latest high-profile departure
Continuing a string of high-profile departures from Facebook Inc., Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe today announced that he’s leaving the social network to “recharge, reflect and be creative.” Iribe (pictured) served as the chief executive officer of Oculus prior to its $3 billion acquisition by the company in 2014. The entrepreneur, who had earlier started two ...
With Swift alliance, Microsoft puts key piece of global banking system on Azure
Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with Swift SCRL to bring the organization’s financial communications network to Azure. The Swift system is a core pillar of global commerce that’s used by over 11,000 financial institutions, as well as major corporations, to exchange data about transactions between their accounts. It helps process most of the world’s international ...
Pulumi raises $15M for its unique brand of infrastructure automation
Pulumi Corp., an infrastructure automation startup that launched in June with $5 million from investors, has bagged an additional $15 million round led by Madrona Venture Group. The investment was announced today and saw Seattle-based enterprise technology fund Tola Capital chip in as well. Pulumi made the round public in conjunction with the introduction of ...
European Union greenlights Microsoft’s $7.5B acquisition of GitHub
Microsoft Corp.’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub Inc. has moved a big step closer toward closing. The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, today unconditionally approved the deal after deciding that the transaction doesn’t raise any antitrust concerns. The body concluded that “Microsoft would not have the market power to undermine the ...
Samsung debuts the Galaxy Book2, a new challenger to Microsoft’s Surface Pro
Fresh off the Galaxy Note 9 launch event, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled another addition to its mobile lineup that directly challenges Microsoft Corp.’s Surface Pro. The Galaxy Book2 is a Windows two-in-one that functions as a tablet on its own and can be turned into a laptop using accessories included in the box. The peripherals ...
Atlassian modernizes Jira with new look, features to boost developer productivity
Since Atlassian Corp. PLC first released Jira 16 years ago, the project management tool has become a fixture in software development initiatives. Today, the company is giving its flagship product a makeover to meet the needs of modern application teams. The main theme of the update is accessibility. Actions that previously required knowledge of Jira’s ...