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Intercom rolls out new chatbot builder to automate customer engagement
Intercom Inc., a customer engagement startup that achieved unicorn status with a big funding round in March, today launched a new tool to let brands automate their interactions with users. Custom Bots is a chatbot builder that enables companies to build tailored virtual assistants. It extends Intercom’s flagship Messenger platform, a chat service for websites that can be used to ...
RiskRecon bags $25M funding round backed by Accel and Dell to tackle outside security risk
Enterprises generally rely on countless different cloud service providers, suppliers and other third parties to support day-to-day operations. Recent history has shown that it can take just one such partner to be hit by a breach for sensitive data to get compromised. Salt Lake City-based RiskRecon Inc. is one of the players trying to mitigate ...
Mozilla’s new experimental Advance tool helps Firefox users explore the web
The Mozilla Foundation’s efforts to set Firefox apart from Google Chrome have moved into a new area: content recommendation. The browser maker today introduced Advance, an experimental feature that uses machine learning to suggest new websites and online content for users to explore. It’s available as an extension downloadable through Test Pilot, the early adopter program Mozilla uses ...
Dell EMC unveils new Ready Solutions for AI and machine learning
Hot on the heels of rival NetApp Inc. introducing a new hardware platform for artificial intelligence workloads, Dell EMC today unveiled two competing offerings that target the same market. The products are rolling out under the brand Ready Solutions for AI. According to Dell EMC, they’re prevalidated designs that bring together different hardware and software components ...
Google Cloud adds Nvidia P4 graphics cards for AI and virtual desktops
Google LLC today made a new graphics accelerator available in its public cloud to provide better support for artificial intelligence and virtual desktop workloads. The chip in question is market leader Nvidia Corp.’s P4. It brings the number of Nvidia graphics processing units that Google’s cloud platform supports to four, all of which have been added since February 2017. ...
AMD debuts new 32-core desktop processor that outperforms Intel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today refreshed its Ryzen Threadripper processor line for desktops, upping the ante against Intel Corp. in a key segment of the chip market. The company is releasing four new central processing units as part of the upgrade that are based on the 12-nanometer Zen+ architecture. Two of the chips are part of a “WX” ...
Nutanix to acquire virtual desktop startup Frame in move to bolster cloud lineup
Hyperconverged appliance maker Nutanix Inc. on Thursday evening announced plans to acquire Mainframe2 Inc., a virtual desktop startup that does business as Frame. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is the culmination of a six-year startup journey for Frame that saw it raise three funding rounds along the way for $28.5 million ...
Walmart is piloting a robot called Alphabot to automate grocery pickups
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s automation efforts go far beyond its reported talks with Microsoft Corp. about building cashier-free stores. The company today revealed plans to deploy a specialized warehouse robot as part of a pilot program focused on speeding up grocery pickups for online shoppers. Dubbed Alphabot, the system (pictured) was born from a partnership between Walmart and Alert ...
In a milestone first, Apple’s market cap passes $1 trillion
After seeing its stock price steadily rise over the past two days, Apple Inc. today hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion and thereby became the first U.S. company ever to reach the valuation. The iPhone maker’s shares passed the crucial $207.05 mark this morning and finished at $207.39 by the end of Thursday, up just under ...
With new Unity alliance, Google looks to mobile games for new ad revenue
Google LLC is extending its digital advertising business into a new, and highly lucrative, corner of the online world: mobile games. The technology giant kicked off the push today by announcing a partnership with Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of the industry’s top mobile game engine. Unity claims that titles powered by its software racked ...