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Microsoft integrates LinkedIn data into Word with new Resume Assistant
Since its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. last year, Microsoft Corp. has been working to integrate the social network’s data into key product lines such as the Office 365 productivity suite. Today, the technology giant unveiled the latest fruit of this initiative. Resume Assistant is a new tool in Word that aims to help ...
Nutanix doubles down on its cloud strategy with new developer services
Nutanix Inc., the hyperconverged infrastructure provider, today unveiled new software services designed to replicate the usability of the public cloud in on-premises data centers. The additions are rolling out for the Enterprise Cloud OS that powers the company’s systems, which combine compute, storage and network equipment with management software in an integrated chassis. Nutanix also makes the platform ...
MongoDB gets new developer features and a needed security upgrade
Just three weeks after going public, MongoDB Inc. today unveiled a new release of its popular open-source NoSQL database that addresses several major operational requirements for enterprise users. The first is improved support for applications that must quickly adapt to changes in the information they process. Even something as seemingly basic as a weather app, ...
Amid production woes, Tesla buys manufacturing automation firm Perbix
In its fourth acquisition to date, Tesla Inc. Tuesday announced the purchase of a company called Perbix Machine Co. Inc. that develops machinery for automating production line operations. According to Reuters, the Minnesota-based firm has been a supplier to Elon Musk’s electric car maker for nearly three years. Perbix specializes in providing design and manufacturing services ...
AWS’ new C5 instances pack a lot of processing power, and more
Amazon Web Services Inc. has made another addition to its infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio less than two weeks after the last major upgrade. The cloud giant on Monday afternoon launched the C5 instance family, which is geared toward computationally intensive workloads such as batch analytics and video encoding. AWS said the series is 25 percent more cost-efficient than ...
Facebook now lets companies embed Messenger into their websites
Facebook Inc. is creating a new way for companies to interact with the large subset of consumers who prefer communicating via chat. The social network this morning introduced Customer Chat, a plugin that brings the ability to embed Messenger into an organization’s website. Users will thus gain the ability to contact companies without the hassle of launching ...
MIT spinoff Pienso raises $2.1M to take coding out of AI development
Pienso Inc., a New York-based startup that spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, is tackling arguably the biggest obstacle to artificial intelligence adoption in the enterprise: the shortage of people versed in applying the technology. Pienso’s mission is supported by $2.1 million in outside capital that was raised via a seed ...
Reddit co-founder’s venture capital fund bets $7M on LogDNA
LogDNA Inc., a startup that helps organizations such as Elon Musk’s OpenAI foundation monitor their infrastructure and applications, today announced that it has secured a $7 million round of financing. The investment came from San Francisco-based Initialized Capital. It’s an early-stage fund that was launched in 2011 by Reddit Inc. co-founder Alexis Ohanian with former ...
Synopsys buys open-source security firm Black Duck Software for $565M
Synopsys Inc. is best known for selling specialized software that helps chip makers develop new semiconductors. On Thursday afternoon, however, the company entered the spotlight over in the cybersecurity world by announcing plans to acquire Black Duck Software Inc. for $565 million. Burlington, Massachusetts-based Black Duck offers tools for reining in the growing number of open-source ...
In latest lawsuit, Qualcomm accuses Apple of leaking its software to Intel
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is once again upping the ante in its legal dispute with Apple Inc. over their supply agreements. The chip maker’s latest move takes the form of a lawsuit that was submitted to the California state court in San Diego on Wednesday and hit the news cycle this morning. In the filing, Qualcomm reportedly ...