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DataVisor raises $40M round led by Sequoia for its fraud-hunting AI
On Pinterest and Yelp, specialized machine learning algorithms scan user activity for signs of malicious behavior such as deceptive review practices. The algorithms are powered by a system from a Mountain View, California-based startup called DataVisor Inc. that today announced it has closed a $40 million round of funding. Sequoia Capital’s Chinese arm led the ...
Look out, FedEx and UPS: Amazon plans to launch its own delivery service soon
Amazon.com Inc. is finally gearing up to launch its long-rumored push to become a shipping provider. That’s according to a Wall Street Journal report published this morning, which claims the retail giant plans to roll out a new package delivery service in the coming weeks. The operation is set run under the brand “Shipping with ...
Broadcom to meet with Qualcomm after again sweetening $121B takeover bid
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. rejected Broadcom Ltd.’s record-breaking $121 billion takeover bid late Thursday in the second such rebuff since the latter company made its initial offer last year. But although the proposal was shot down, it seemed to have achieved Broadcom’s reported goal of bringing the chipmaker to the negotiating table. In conjunction with the rejection ...
Lyft hires top Tesla executive Jon McNeill as COO
Hot on the heels of Uber Technologies Inc. hiring its first chief operating officer, rival Lyft Inc. today announced the appointment of a top Tesla Inc. executive to the same position. Jon McNeill is coming aboard after a more than two-year stint as the president of global sales and service at Elon Musk’s carmaker. He ...
LogMeIn to acquire internet voice provider Jive Communications for $342M
Cloud communications and information technology giant LogMeIn Inc. today announced plans to acquire Jive Communications Inc., a provider of managed internet voice services based out of Utah, to cement its position in a key market. The deal is valued at $342 million and will bolster LogMeIn’s existing communications business. The division consists in large part of ...
Adobe debuts new AI features for creating more compelling web content
Adobe Systems Inc. is applying artificial intelligence to new areas, for example recently infusing machine learning into Photoshop to save time for designers. Today, it’s bringing similar automation features to Experience Manager, its marketing content platform for enterprises, in an effort to help companies more easily create and target marketing content. “Everyone’s becoming a creator,” Elliot Sedegah, ...
Akamai lays off 5% of workforce following activist investor pressure
Content delivery giant Akamai Technologies Inc. has laid off 400 employees, or 5 percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to streamline operations. Akamai Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton revealed the move during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday night. He said the restructuring initiative, which wrapped up this week, was originally launched ...
Intel debuts new edge computing chip with specialized cryptography tech
Intel Corp. this morning pulled back the curtains on the Xeon D-2100, a specialized new chip series built to perform computations outside a traditional data center. So-called edge computing enables companies to process data closer to the point of creation in the interest of improving response times. A factory operator, for example, might wish to ...
Top VCs bet $32M on Highfive’s flavor of download-free videoconferencing
Highfive Technologies Inc., a startup that competes in the crowded videoconferencing market with its own custom communications hardware, today announced the completion of a $32 million funding round. The lead investor was $8 billion technology consulting provider Dimension Data Holdings Plc. The company is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based telecommunications giant NTT Group, which regularly backs funding rounds ...
Check Point’s new cloud security toolkit aims to thwart ‘Gen V’ threats
Recent years have seen a noticeable increase in large-scale cyberattacks that compromise a significant amount of sensitive data or cause substantial business disruption. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. collectively refers to such breaches as “Gen V” threats, the risk of which it’s hoping to mitigate with its latest offering. Unveiled today, CloudGuard is a set ...