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Amid rumors of an Apple tie-up, Intel unveils powerful new mobile modems
The hundreds of millions of mobile devices that are sold every quarter each contain a wireless communications chip for connecting to carrier networks. Today, Intel Corp. unveiled new products that could help it establish a better position in this massive market. The first and most interesting chip that the company has previewed is the XMM 8060 ...
Element AI launches $45M AI fund with three prominent Korean partners
In an unusual move for a startup that’s barely a year old, Element AI Inc. on Wednesday announced the creation of a $45 million venture capital fund dedicated to backing fellow artificial intelligence providers. The launch comes not long after the company picked up $102 million in financing of its own from investors. Element AI, ...
At-Bay exits stealth with a data-driven approach to cyberinsurance
Most startups that have “cybersecurity” in their elevator pitch focus on breach prevention or remediating incidents after the fact. At-Bay Inc. instead sells insurance. The startup, which exited stealth mode today, is the latest in a crop of emerging players seeking to shake up the historically slow-moving insurance industry. Data from Crunchbase shows that such ...
Smarsh to merge with Actiance in bid to become a $100M compliance powerhouse
Managing internal communications is a tricky business for enterprises. They not only need to ensure that employees can interact with peers and outside contacts without any technical obstacles, but also store correspondences for extended periods of time to meet compliance requirements. The market for software that can ease the latter task is quite sizable. In an ...
Microsoft unveils new AI development tools at its Connect(); conference
Microsoft Corp. today kicked off Connect(); 2017, its annual developer conference in New York, with the introduction of several new tools designed to help companies build artificial intelligence applications and other modern software. The first additions are rolling out for Visual Studio, the company’s popular coding platform. Chief among them is a package called Visual Studio ...
Fast-growing log analytics startup Logz.io lands another $23M in funding
Since raising $16 million from investors last year, Logz.io Inc. has tripled both revenues and the size of its installed base. The three-year-old analytics startup shared these growth figures today as it announced the completion of a $23 million round that will go toward scaling up operations. Logz.io offers a cloud-based service that enables companies to ...
Meet Firefox Quantum, Mozilla’s most compelling answer to Chrome yet
The browser market may about to become a lot more competitive. The Mozilla Foundation today launched Firefox Quantum, a new iteration of its open-source browser hailed as the most significant release since the first stable version came out in 2004. It brings major enhancements in practically every area that counts. At the top of the list is performance. ...
Lessonly raises $8M in funding to make employee learning more interactive
Lessonly Inc., a fast-growing startup from Indianapolis working to improve how companies provide employee training, today announced that it has raised $8 million in funding to step up the effort. The investment was led by returning backer OpenView Venture Partners, which previously participated in Lessonly’s $5 Series A round last March. The period since has seen ...
Cloudflare acquires Accel-backed Neumob to accelerate mobile apps
Cloudflare Inc. is looking to establish a bigger presence in the mobile market. To that end, the content delivery provider today announced that it has acquired Neumob Inc., an emerging competitor backed by Accel. The startup offers a service similar to Cloudflare’s that enables mobile developers to serve up content faster via their apps by storing it ...
Emissary’s new service helps salespeople understand the companies they pitch
Most sales startups focus on automating various aspects of the deal-making process such as lead management and outreach. Emissary Inc. is looking to make its mark in an entirely different way. The startup, which was founded in 2013 by Google LLC veteran David Hammer and has raised $14 million from investors, operates a “sales intelligence ...