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Zoom, the well-funded videoconferencing startup, embraces AR
Earlier this year, Zoom Video Communications Inc. raised $100 million in funding from a consortium led by Sequoia Capital to fuel feature development. This morning at a user conference in California, the startup unveiled the latest fruits of the effort. The main highlight is a new feature called Recording Transcripts. According to VentureBeat, Zoom has applied ...
Evernote veterans’ new chatbot aims to make finding files a breeze
Navigating the maze of folders that contain a company’s internal files can be a hassle even with the search tools included in most modern collaboration services. A team of Evernote Corp. veterans led by Jack Hirsch, the company’s former engineering head, is tackling the issue. The team’s startup, Butter.ai Inc., exited stealth mode today with ...
ProsperWorks raises $53M to take on Salesforce.com
With its $10 billion annual run rate, Salesforce.com Inc. boasts a commanding lead in the customer relationship management market. But that’s not deterring smaller players from trying to climb the competitive ladder. One of the fastest-rising Salesforce rivals out there is San Francisco-based ProsperWorks Inc., which today announced that it has completed a $53 million ...
Aptrinsic sets out to personalize cloud services
Aptrinsic Inc. is looking to change how companies approach user experience. The San Mateo-based startup, which is backed by $7.2 million in funding, hit the scene today with a “product experience platform” for personalizing cloud applications. Aptrinsic is essentially hoping to apply the targeted engagement approach employed in the marketing world to interface design. The ...
Hackers breach Deloitte’s email system, compromise client data
Yet another data breach at a major company has come to light. In a statement released this morning, global accounting giant Deloitte LLP revealed that hackers had compromised its internal email system. A report in The Guardian cited sources familiar with the matter as saying that the deployment held approximately 5 million messages. The tipsters claim ...
Microsoft unveils Bing for Business and other new services at Ignite conference
Lining up an extensive array of announcements for this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the enterprise-oriented event by unveiling several dozen feature additions for key products, along with a few brand-new services that will likely go down as the main highlight. Bing for Business One of the most noteworthy products that Microsoft unveiled this morning ...
Microsoft improves Azure’s resiliency with new infrastructure expansion
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and other leading cloud platforms have safeguards against outages, but the risk of downtime can never be eliminated completely, because a disruption may be caused by human error, a power cut or any number of other factors. To help Azure customers better deal with such situations, Microsoft on Thursday introduced Availability Zones. It’s ...
Cisco debuts Intersight, a new cloud-based data center management service
Cisco Systems Inc. is expanding its lineup of data center management tools with a new cloud service designed to take some hassle out of day-to-day operations. Dubbed Intersight, the platform works with the company’s Unified Computing System and HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances. It augments the traditional on-premises management software that Cisco has offered for the systems until now. ...
Baidu launches a $1.5B autonomous vehicle fund
A week after Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed plans to invest in companies pursuing autonomous driving and other emerging vehicle technologies, another of Asia’s tech titans is joining the fray. Chinese search provider Baidu Inc. today announced the launch of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) fund for supporting autonomous driving projects. The company is looking ...
Manifold exits stealth to simplify how developers buy cloud services
Development teams increasingly employ cloud-based tools as part of their work — so much so, in fact, that managing all the different services used for a project can often be a major hassle. Arigato Machine Inc., which conducts business under the Manifold name, has spent the past year and a half working on a solution. Today, ...