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Marketo teams up with Google to build a new AI-powered marketing tool
Marketing automation giant Marketo Inc. today announced a collaboration with Google LLC to develop an artificial intelligence tool that will let enterprises look for potential buyers more efficiently. The company today also announced that it has acquired Bizible Inc., a Seattle startup that helps companies attribute revenue to particular parts of the sales and marketing process, based on data ...
Microsoft will begin rolling the next major upgrade to Windows 10 Monday
Cloud services have become Microsoft Corp.’s most important source of revenue growth, as its better-than-expected earnings report on Thursday demonstrated. But the company is still as committed as ever to advancing Windows 10. Microsoft today announced that the next major upgrade to the personal computer operating system will become available for manual download on Monday, ...
Digital banking startup Revolut lands $250M in funding, now valued at $1.7B
The venture capital community continues to make big bets on startups working to disrupt the financial sector. Revolut Ltd., a five-year-old digital banking firm in London, today announced that it has closed a hefty $250 million financing round led by DST Global. The Hong Kong-based fund is notable for having made early investments in tech ...
Amazon plans new AI features for Alexa to enable more natural interactions
Amazon.com Inc. plans to roll out a trio of new features for Alexa that should make interactions with the virtual assistant feel more natural, as well as significantly expand its utility. The development effort is led by a group within the retail giant that’s known as the Alexa Brain Initiative. According to Ruhi Sarikaya, the ...
Sprinklr applies AI to social media management with new Intuition toolkit
Sprinklr Inc., the social media management unicorn valued at $1.8 billion, is doubling down on artificial intelligence. The company today unveiled Intuition, a new set of AI features for its flagship Experience Cloud designed to help brands better engage customers via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Intuition will roll out with two initial capabilities ...
Google boosts cloud database lineup with an in-memory store and new features
Google LLC today revealed plans to strengthen the lineup of database services on its cloud platform with a managed in-memory store and several improvements to existing products. Cloud Memorystore for Redis, the new offering, is based on the open-source Redis project. The database keeps records on a server’s memory instead of slower secondary storage as ...
With latest product updates, Puppet speeds infrastructure automation
Puppet Inc. today unveiled new capabilities for its popular automation platform to help administrators find and seize upon opportunities to improve the efficiency of their companies’ infrastructure faster. The arguably biggest addition is Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise. As the name implies, the tool provides the ability to create continuous delivery pipelines, automated workflows for testing and rolling ...
High-performance database startup ScyllaDB reels in $10M from investors
ScyllaDB Inc., a database startup that boasts big-name users such as IBM Corp. and the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, today announced that it has raised $10 million in funding to take on the industry’s top cloud providers. Specifically, ScyllaDB plans to build a managed version of its database that will compete with similar ...
Tableau launches new visual data preparation tool to speed up analytics
Business intelligence heavyweight Tableau Software Inc. today bolstered its product lineup with a new visual tool for turning raw information into a form that lends itself to analysis. The appropriately named Data Prep focuses on easing the labor-intensive preparatory steps that analysts must perform before they can begin to search for insights in their records. Research ...
AWS launches IoT Analytics to help companies process their machine data
Like the other players in the public cloud market, Amazon Web Services Inc. is investing heavily to tap the revenue opportunities presented by companies’ increasing use of connected devices. The infrastructure-as-a-service giant today announced the general availability of AWS IoT Analytics, a service for processing the data generated by devices in the “internet of things.” ...