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Symantec adds browser isolation security with new startup acquisition
Symantec Corp.’s latest acquisition may not be as big as its $2.3 billion purchase of LifeLock Inc. last November, but the deal could prove significant in several ways. The cybersecurity giant today announced that it’s buying Fireglass Ltd., an Israeli startup with a novel approach to protecting workers from online threats. The firm has developed a platform ...
Google’s DeepMind opens new AI lab in Canada
Less than a year after establishing an artificial intelligence lab in Canada, Google is once again expanding its presence up north. DeepMind, a subsidiary of the search giant that experiments with novel ways to apply AI, today announced the launch of a new research center in Edmonton. The facility is the unit’s first major outpost outside its ...
Tide raises $14M to ride the fintech wave into small and midsized businesses
For small and midsized companies, banking presents the same hurdle they often face in the technology market, namely a lack of access to the conveniences available to large enterprises. Tide Holdings Ltd. now hopes to even the playing field. The British startup Tuesday announced it has raised $14 million from a consortium led by London-based ...
Baidu snaps up chatbot startup Kitt.ai
Artificial intelligence is taking center stage at Baidu Inc.’s annual Create developer conference today. Alongside a deep learning partnership with Nvidia Corp., the Chinese search giant has announced that it’s acquiring a venture-backed chatbot startup called Kitt.ai Inc. The Seattle-based firm’s claim to fame is a suite of tools designed to help developers create virtual assistants that ...
JPMorgan, Vantiv bid to buy digital payments giant Worldpay
The shift from cash to credit cards and digital payments is unsurprisingly attracting serious attention in the financial sector. Worldpay Group PLC, one of the leaders in payment processing, has now found itself at the center of the spotlight. The British payment processing giant today revealed that it has been separately approached by JPMorgan Chase ...
Samsung to invest $18.6B into expanding memory production
As global demand for flash memory continues to rise, the semiconductor industry is ramping up production to meet it. One of the manufacturers leading the charge is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, which yesterday revealed plans to invest 20.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion) into expanding its chip business. The lion’s share, 14.4 trillion won ($14.7 billion), will ...
Recruiting automation startup Harver raises $8.1M in its bid to replace the resume
Resumes are a fundamental part of recruiting, but they only provide so much insight into a job applicant’s suitability. Harver BV, a four-year-old startup based in Amsterdam, claims to have come up with a better means of screening candidates. The firm offers a cloud service that promises to help companies attract workers with a lower turnover ...
Bain bets $2M on StorageOS, a startup working to simplify container projects
Building an application that can be used in containers, which allows software to run across many computing environments, has become much simpler in recent years thanks to the work of Docker Inc. and other key providers. But there remain several technical obstacles. One of the biggest is the difficulty of managing workloads such as databases ...
Google enhances the AI behind its computer vision services
As of this week, companies that rely on Google Inc.’s cloud platform to process their media assets should see a noticeable improvement in results. The search giant on Thursday announced several enhancements to its object recognition services aimed at increasing the accuracy with which they can identify and categorize items. Most of the changes affect Google’s Cloud ...
LinkedIn open-sources its internal tools for dealing with outages
LinkedIn’s tradition of sharing internal technologies with the developer community is going as strong as ever under Microsoft Corp.’s wing. Its latest contribution is a pair of incident management tools designed to ease the task of responding to technical issues. In a blog post published this morning, LinkedIn engineer Daniel Wang wrote that they were originally ...