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Payroll giant ADP acquires worker management startup WorkMarket
ADP LLC says about 80 percent of American businesses rely on contractors to one extent or another. To address the phenomenon, the payroll automation giant has acquired a well-funded startup called WorkMarket Inc. in a deal announced this morning. New York-based WorkMarket provides a platform through which a company can centrally manage contractors and the ...
Microsoft challenges Google in the classroom with new devices, Office features
Microsoft Corp. is upping the ante against Google LLC in the hotly contested education market. The company today unveiled new devices and software tools aimed at winning over more schools to Windows 10, which is estimated to have a market share of 22 percent in the U.S. K-12 segment compared with Chromebooks’ nearly 60 percent. The ...
Google inks patent sharing deal with Tencent as it eyes opportunities in China
Google LLC on Thursday announced that it has inked a patent sharing agreement with Tencent Holdings Ltd., China’s top tech firm by market capitalization and the fifth largest in the world, as part of a move that could pave the way for broader collaboration between the two web giants. The intellectual property alliance is the ...
Reboot problem in Intel’s Spectre patch threatens almost all recent processors
Two weeks after the first patches for the far-reaching Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities started rolling out, many users are still not out of the woods. The latest complication in the computer industry’s efforts to fix the problem involves Intel Corp., whose central processing unit chips are most heavily affected by the flaws. The chipmaker ...
Okta and ServiceNow launch new tool for containing security breaches
According to research from Verizon Communications Inc., a full 81 percent of security breaches in the enterprise involve compromised user credentials. Okta Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. this morning launched a new jointly developed tool aimed at mitigating the threat. The two cloud giants said the application draws on their respective technologies to enable faster response ...
Iris Automation raises $8M round to prevent midair drone collisions
In October, a drone narrowly missed the wing of an airliner approaching London Gatwick Airport and almost caused a collision that the pilot said could have put the passengers’ lives at risk. It’s this kind of scenario that San Francisco-based Iris Automation Inc. is working to prevent with the help of $8 million in newly ...
Lyft is turning its self-driving taxi demo from CES into a regional pilot
Lyft Inc. is looking to accelerate its self-driving taxi push. On Tuesday, the ride-hailing company revealed plans to extend an autonomous shuttle service that it had set up for the Consumer Electronics Show last week and launch a regional pilot project. The initiative is the fruit of a partnership with auto parts giant Aptiv PLC. Originally known ...
Google’s new AutoML service promises code-free AI development
Artificial intelligence has become quite accessible for enterprises thanks to cloud services such as Google LLC’s Vision API that offer pretrained machine learning models on-demand. But building a custom AI optimized for a company’s specific use case is still a costly endeavor. Google has set out to change that by introducing today a new cloud toolkit ...
Usermind raises $23.5M to become the IFTTT of customer experience
Usermind Inc., a Seattle-based startup working to improve customer experience with automation, today announced that it has secured a $23.5 million investment led by Northgate Capital. Returning backers Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures and Charles River Ventures contributed as well. The trio previously invested $14.5 million into Usermind as part of a 2016 funding round. The ...
Cloudflare’s new secure access service takes a page from Google
Cloudflare Inc. today rolled out a new service designed to make it easier for the world’s growing population of mobile workers to access company systems when they’re away from the office. Employees at most enterprises currently have to use virtual private network tools for the task, which can be quite cumbersome. The main issue is that ...