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Uber orders 24,000 SUVs from Volvo to build a fleet of self-driving taxis
Swedish auto giant Volvo Cars Corp. today revealed that Uber Technologies Inc. has placed a landmark order for up to 24,000 sport utility vehicle a bid to build a fleet of self-driving taxis. The deal is reportedly valued at approximately $1.4 billion and will see the vehicles delivered over a period of three years starting ...
Food delivery startup Deliveroo picks up $98M in additional funding
Deliveroo Ltd., one of the billion-dollar-plus startups competing in what has come to be known as the on-demand economy, today announced the completion of a $98 million investment. The cash infusion is an extension of the $385 million Series F funding round that the British food delivery provider raised in September. Deliveroo runs an online marketplace ...
GitHub’s new security tool flags vulnerable project components
There’s always a risk that one of the numerous third-party components used in the typical application project might contain a security flaw exploitable by hackers. GitHub Inc., the code hosting provider, has set out to mitigate this threat. The company on Thursday introduced a new security tool that alerts developers when an external component on which their ...
Google launches Dialogflow Enterprise to power conversational apps
A day after introducing new developer tools for its popular voice assistant, Google LLC has launched a cloud service that will enable companies to build their own conversational apps. Released into public beta this morning, Dialogflow Enterprise is based on technology that the search giant obtained through the acquisition of API.AI Inc. last year. The service makes it ...
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 ...