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HubSpot acquires chatbot development startup Motion AI
Just two months after buying Kemvi Inc. to give customers access to better market intelligence, HubSpot Inc. has picked up another startup. The marketing automation giant this morning announced the acquisition of Motion AI Inc., a two-year-old chatbot development specialist. With the help of about $700,000 in seed funding, the startup has created a service ...
DigitalOcean launches Spaces, a much-needed object storage service
DigitalOcean Inc. is marking its seventh product launch in 18 months. Following an extensive beta testing phase, the well-funded cloud provider today rolled out an object storage service called Spaces. DigitalOcean Chief Executive Officer Ben Uretsky hailed it as “the most important product we’ve released since Droplet,” the startup’s flagship virtual machine family. The reason ...
HashiCorp’s new Sentinel tool creates corporate ‘policy guardrails’
Infrastructure automation provider HashiCorp Inc. is doubling down on policy enforcement. The startup, which counts Pinterest Inc. and Barclays PLC among its clients, today introduced a framework called Sentinel to help companies enforce internal compliance policies. It was developed to address the inherent risks involved in managing a firm’s technology infrastructure. Tools such as HashiCorp’s ...
Google’s natural language processing service gets smarter
Like other web giants, Google LLC is investing a lot of resources into recruiting artificial intelligence researchers. Improving its developer services is one of the ways in which the company has been putting that talent to use. Today, the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary released two new features for the Google Cloud Natural Language application programming interface to help customers ...
Twilio opens its cloud communications platform to nondevelopers
Some 1.6 million developers use Twilio Inc.’s namesake cloud platform to provide communications features such as voice calling in their applications. Now, the company hopes to grow that number even further by bringing nontechnical professionals into the fold. Twilio today unveiled a new service that provides the ability to take advantage of its communications features without writing any ...
Threat Stack’s centralized cybersecurity vision attracts $45M in funding
Against the backdrop of the attack against Equifax Inc. that compromised over 140 million consumers, companies are investing heavily in cybersecurity to avoid becoming the next headline. Startups such as Threat Stack Inc. are rushing to meet the demand, with enthusiastic support from venture capitalists. The five-year-old intrusion prevention provider today announced that it has ...
Salesforce upgrades Einstein AI suite’s crystal ball and debuts $50M fund
Since introducing its Einstein suite of artificial intelligence features a year ago, Salesforce.com Inc. has been regularly making new additions to the lineup. Today the company unveiled one of the most significant updates yet. The main highlight is Einstein Forecasting, a new product aimed at helping companies predict how well internal sales goals will be met. ...
Intel, Waymo reveal previously undisclosed self-driving car alliance
Two of the biggest players in the autonomous vehicle segment have been quietly collaborating for years. In a blog post published today, Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich revealed the existence of a long-running partnership between his company and Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division. The alliance reportedly dates all the way back to 2009, when the ...
Industrial Internet firm Silver Spring acquired by Itron for $830M
A significant portion of the connected devices in use today are employed for industrial purposes such as monitoring remote equipment. Liberty Lake, Washington-based Itron Inc. is one of the suppliers shaping this part of the market. The firm, which mainly sells metering hardware for measuring energy and water usage, today announced plans to acquire publicly traded Silver Spring ...
Google and Spotify open-source a new cloud security toolkit
In the past six months, there have been two high-profile cases of companies storing sensitive data on cloud servers that were inadvertently exposed to the outside world. Google LLC is looking to help customers of its infrastructure as a service platform avoid making the same mistake. The technology giant today open-sourced Forseti Security, a toolkit for ...