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Netlify Inc., a startup working to change how websites are built, today announced that it has reeled in a $30 million investment from an all-star lineup of investors. Venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins led the round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Slack …
Liferay takes its ‘digital experience platform’ to the cloud
The content management system market can be roughly divided into two segments. The first includes mass-market platforms such as WordPress, while the other consists of enterprise solutions for large organizations. One of the biggest players in this latter market is Liferay Inc., …
LinkedIn to acquire workforce analytics startup Glint for $400M+
LinkedIn is marking its first acquisition since becoming part of Microsoft Corp. in 2016. The business social network today announced plans to purchase Glint Inc., a Redwood City, California-based startup focused on providing enterprises with insight into employee sentiment. The terms of …
Joining Google, Microsoft unveils its own cloud-based game streaming service
Microsoft Corp. today previewed Project xCloud, an upcoming service intended to make video games that currently require a personal computer or a gaming console playable on mobile devices. The announcement comes a week after Google LLC revealed plans to launch a game streaming service of its own. If they live …
Facebook launches Portal, an Alexa-powered video calling device with AI features
Following more than a year of rumors that Facebook Inc. could enter the smart home market, the company today officially debuted Portal, a voice-controlled video calling device powered by Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa assistant. The system’s specifications are more or less in line with …
Salesforce picks up interactive email startup Rebel
Rebelmail Inc., a venture-backed marketing technology startup that does business as Rebel, today announced that it has been acquired five years after launching. The company on the other end of the transaction is Salesforce.com Inc., which will use the startup’s software to …
Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET, an AI engine that helps power Azure cloud services
Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced Infer.NET, an internally developed machine learning engine that it uses to power parts of Azure, Office 365 and the Xbox video game platform. The company has made the code for the tool available on GitHub under the permissive …
Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon to merge into $100M social intelligence provider
Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon Inc., two of the biggest players in the social media intelligence market, today revealed plans to merge into a single entity with annual recurring revenues of $100 million. The deal is expected to close by the end of the …
DevOps startup JFrog reels in $165M round, now valued above $1B
JFrog Ltd.’s development tools are used by more than 4,500 companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Facebook Inc. and 70 percent of the Fortune 100. The startup’s investors are betting that it can continue growing this installed base. JFrog today announced that …
Bloomberg claims China planted spy chips in servers used by Apple and Amazon, but both refute story
Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. are said to have been targeted in a Chinese spying campaign that reportedly saw malicious chips enter their data centers as part of compromised server motherboards. That’s the claim put forth in a bombshell Bloomberg report published …