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Former Docker CEO Ben Golub takes the reins at blockchain startup Storj Labs
Former Docker Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ben Golub, who helped turn the company from a fledgling startup into a major force in the software development world, is taking his expertise to a new area: the blockchain ecosystem. A decentralized storage startup called Storj Labs Inc. this morning named Golub (pictured) as its CEO. The company offers ...
Dropbox seeks to raise up to $648M in IPO, with an $8B valuation target
Dropbox Inc. today revealed plans to raise up to $648 million in its forthcoming initial public offering, which would give it a valuation as high as $8 million when taking into account restricted stock. The IPO will see the cloud storage company sell 36 million shares for $16 to $18 apiece. In a regulatory filing, Dropbox specified ...
InfoSum launches new platform to bring privacy into user data analytics
InfoSum Ltd., a British analytics startup backed by $8 million in funding, today burst onto the scene with a new platform built to address one of the biggest challenges that enterprises face when trying to extract insight from their information. Large-scale analytics projects typically require combining records from multiple sources to piece together the full ...
Dropbox and Salesforce forge new alliance to bring their platforms closer together
Hot on the heels of launching a collaboration with Google LLC to provide a better experience for joint customers, Dropbox Inc. today announced another significant cloud partnership that should help further raise the appeal of its platform. The cloud storage provider will team up with Salesforce.com Inc. to let users of Dropbox’s services access their files ...
Uber reportedly close to selling Southeast Asia business to rival Grab
Following months of speculation that Uber Technologies Inc. is weighing a retreat from the Southeast Asian ride-sharing market, the company may finally push through with the move. A Bloomberg report published today cited multiple sources as saying that Uber is “close” to selling parts of its operations in the region to local rival Grab Taxi ...
Starsky Robotics picks up $16.5M to put self-driving trucks on the road
Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics Inc. today announced that its effort to automate the logistics industry has received a boost in the form of a $16.5 million funding round led by Shasta Ventures. The investment, which also saw the participation of several returning backers, comes a few weeks after Starsky reached a major development milestone. ...
Microsoft will ship a built-in AI platform with the next release of Windows 10
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a new artificial intelligence toolkit for Windows 10 that will pave the way to the development of desktop applications with built-in machine learning capabilities. The technology, which the company calls Windows ML, is set to release with the next major upgrade to the operating system this spring. At its core is ...
Tech giants back $20M investment into meeting bot startup Voicera
Voicera (Rizio Inc.), a Menlo Park, California-based startup using artificial intelligence to make business meetings more productive, today announced that it has raised $20 million in funding from a who’s who of technology companies. The investment saw the participation of Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Workday Inc. along with several ...
IBM unveils an experimental analytics service for understanding the physical world
In analytics projects that seek to answer complex real-world questions such as how to reduce a farm’s water usage, researchers must typically collect data from multiple sources over an extended period of time. IBM Corp. today unveiled an experimental new service aimed at making it easier to put the different pieces together. The offering, which is ...
With powerful new chip, Google aims to usher in the quantum computing era
The tech industry’s push to develop large-scale quantum computers with the capability to outperform current hardware is advancing by leaps and bounds. The latest development comes courtesy of Google LLC, which on Monday unveiled a quantum processor with 72 qubits (pictured) that ranks as the largest of its kind to date by a sizable margin. The runner-up ...