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Iconiq Capital leads $50M round into cloud communications startup Dialpad
Cloud-based communications startup Dialpad Inc. today announced that it has closed a $50 million funding round led by Iconiq Capital, a venture fund that counts Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as clients. Returning backer Andreessen Horowitz chipped in as well. The investment likely will help boost Dialpad’s already fast growth trajectory. The startup offers a trio ...
Microsoft rolls out HD video calling and other new features for Skype
Microsoft Corp. today released a new version of the Skype desktop app that offers new calling features and sets the stage for an even bigger update that will roll out later this summer. Among the capabilities available today, the most significant is support for high-definition video calls. Users can now see one another at 1080p and share ...
Salesforce to acquire AI marketing startup Datorama for a reported $800M+
Salesforce.com Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Datorama Inc., a startup with a cloud-based marketing platform used by more than 3,000 organizations. Some of the companies that rely on the service are PepsiCo Inc., IBM Corp. and Unilever PLC. Datorama’s impressive customer base might help explain the hefty reported price tag ...
GE and Microsoft expand their cloud alliance in industrial IoT push
General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to align their cloud efforts more closely across several important areas, in a move designed to address the rapid spread of connected devices. The push builds on the cloud partnership that the companies struck in 2016. The deal saw GE tap Microsoft’s Azure to host its cloud-based ...
Arrcus exits stealth with an operating system for white box networks
There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about how “white box” networking gear that uses affordable off-the-shelf components could reduce data center costs, but adoption among enterprises remains limited. Arrcus Inc. wants to change that. The San Jose, California-based networking software startup exited stealth mode today with $15 million in funding from ...
Report: AWS could be moving into the data center networking business
Amazon Web Services Inc. may soon challenge Cisco Systems Inc. and other established network equipment makers by bringing its own switches to market, The Information reported today. The publication cited two people familiar with the matter as saying that the plan is still under consideration. Nonetheless, Wall Street is taking the prospect of AWS entering ...
Microsoft’s new TextWorld framework generates games to train AI models
Artificial intelligence models have successfully mastered modern video games such as Dota 2 that boast complex three-dimensional environments and controls. Now, Microsoft Corp. wants to up the challenge in a bid to advance AI research. The company on Thursday open-sourced TextWorld, a framework that can generate games for training neural networks. More specifically, it creates text adventures, which don’t have ...
GitHub courts enterprise developers with new code management features
When Microsoft Corp. announced plans to acquire GitHub last month, Chief Executive Satya Nadella said one of his objectives is to widen the adoption of the service among enterprise developers. Today marked a milestone toward that goal. GitHub this morning launched new features for the enterprise tier of its code hosting platform to ease software ...
Apple launches new MacBook Pros with more processing power, better displays
Apple Inc. today pulled back the curtains on new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros that offer vastly more horsepower than their predecessors, along with an array of other enhancements. It’s the 13-inch model, the more affordable of the two, that has received the biggest boost. Apple claims that the machine can provide as much as ...
Alation adds ‘governance guardrails’ to its data catalog
Alation Inc., an analytics startup founded in 2012 by Google LLC and Apple Inc. veterans, wants to reduce the risk of unreliable information getting into enterprise analytics projects. Alation’s plan for achieving this involves a new set of features called TrustCheck that it rolled out today to its flagship data catalog. The platform, which boasts big-name ...