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LinkedIn steps up advertising efforts with new native video ads
LinkedIn members have had the ability to post native video content on the social network for quite some time now, but the same option wasn’t available to advertisers. Now, the Microsoft Corp. subsidiary is moving to change that in a bid to open a new revenue stream. LinkedIn on Thursday announced that it will roll ...
Cloud ascendant: Microsoft launches major reorg as Windows head departs
If Microsoft Corp.’s employees didn’t already realize cloud computing and artificial intelligence will drive their company’s future much more than its venerable Windows software, they sure know it now. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella today announced a series of major organizational changes that will restructure the company’s efforts in several key areas. The driver ...
Communications market consolidates: Plantronics agrees to buy Polycom for $2B
Although cloud services such as Slack Inc.’s have come to dominate the conversation around business communications, they constitute only one element of an expansive market. Companies also spend billions of dollars every year on hardware to help their employees collaborate remotely, an area on track to see some consolidation. Plantronics Inc., a leading maker of ...
Hire by Google gets new features to help recruiters fill job openings faster
In many cases, a job opening will attract far more potentially qualified candidates than what the company behind the listing can hire. Google LLC hopes to take advantage of this dynamic to make it easier for recruiters to fill open positions. The search giant today released a new iteration of Hire by Google, the job applicant ...
VMware acquires startup E8 Security to bolster its device management capabilities
VMware Inc. today revealed that it has acquired E8 Security Inc., a Redwood City, California-based startup that develops software for protecting employee devices from online threats. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Sumit Dhawan, the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s End-User Computing group, shared in a blog post ...
Ubiquity6 nabs $10.5M in funding to fill AR’s missing pieces
The challenge of making augmented reality appealing enough for mainstream adoption has caught the attention of both tech giants such as Google LLC and emerging startups. One of the newest players in the race is eight-month-old Ubiquity6 Inc., which today announced that it has secured a $10.5 million funding round. Index Ventures led the investment, joined ...
Pure Storage introduces AIRI, a beefy machine for AI workloads
Pure Storage Inc. today unveiled AIRI, a new hardware platform built in collaboration with graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. that targets enterprises pursuing large-scale artificial intelligence initiatives. Introduced at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, the system is a “fully integrated” solution that cuts the complexity of creating an AI environment, the companies said. It’s based ...
Chat-centered sales startup Intercom raises $125M on $1.3B valuation
Intercom Inc., a sales startup that enables companies to engage prospective customers automatically online, today announced that it has secured a hefty $125 million investment led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers. The venture capital firm was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV private equity arm and a number of returning investors. Their cash infusion brings Intercom’s ...
With new Experience Cloud updates, Adobe offers a unified customer view
Adobe Systems Inc. set a new sales record last quarter and handily beat analyst expectations thanks to a strong increase in revenue from cloud services. At an event in Las Vegas today, the company unveiled new features aimed at continuing that momentum. The focus of the upgrade is Experience Cloud, the suite of services that ...
In latest win over Amazon Web Services, Google inks cloud deal with Shopify
Google LLC is kicking off the week with a major customer win in the public cloud. Dale Neufeld, the vice president of production engineering at Shopify Inc., revealed in a blog post today that the e-commerce giant is shifting its back-end systems to Google Cloud Platform. The companies didn’t divulge the financial terms of the ...