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Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds two open-source security projects
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a prominent industry body backed by a who’s who of technology firms, is joining the cybersecurity fray. The group this morning announced that it has taken charge of two open-source projects designed to help developers better protect their applications against hackers. The projects join a dozen technologies already under the ...
To boost its application ecosystem, Salesforce overhauls AppExchange
There’s perhaps no better indicator of the key role partners play in Salesforce.com Inc.’s strategy than the fact that 87 percent of its customers use outside apps. Today, the software-as-a-service giant announced a major update that should put those partner-developed offerings even more front and center. Salesforce has rolled out a new version of its ...
Andreessen Horowitz leads $30M funding of marketing analytics startup ActionIQ
Barely a week seems to go by these days without at least one startup raising capital in a bid to change how companies approach digital marketing. Today, it was ActionIQ Inc.’s turn. The three-year-old firm this morning announced the closing of a $30 million funding round led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz. The fund ...
Cisco to buy cloud communications provider BroadSoft for $1.9B
Cisco Systems Inc. has kicked off the week by announcing plans today to acquire BroadSoft Inc., a Gaithersburg, Maryland-based provider of business communications services, for a hefty $1.9 billion in cash. The price tag amounts to about $1.7 billion net of debt. BroadSoft shareholders stand to receive $55 per share as part of the deal, which ...
Solvvy raises $12M in funding to infuse machine learning into customer service
Solvvy Inc., an artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, California, today announced that it has raised $12 million in funding to streamline the customer service experience. Different companies run their help desks in different ways, but they usually grapple with the same basic set of challenges. These include familiar issues such as inconsistent answers ...
Google’s new AVA dataset aims to help AI better understand humans
A week after Facebook Inc. introduced two datasets aimed at helping developers train their computer vision models, Google LLC has upped the ante with a contribution of its own. The company on Thursday released AVA, a vast collection of video content that can be used to hone an artificial intelligence’s observation skills. Both Google and Facebook ...
Lyft picks up $1 billion funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG
Anonymous tipsters leaked word in September that Lyft Inc. may be looking to raise capital through an initial public offering scheduled for as early as 2018. Those plans have evidently been put on hold. Lyft today announced the completion of a hefty $1 billion funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s late-stage startup fund. The investment values the ...
Dell EMC beefs up its Cloud for Azure Stack appliance
Dell EMC is giving its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio a major boost. The data center equipment supplier, which operates under the Dell Technologies Inc. umbrella, today unveiled an upgraded version of the Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack appliance. It combines server equipment, storage and networking gear in a chassis that comes installed with the ...
Snaps raises $6M to bring marketing into the chatbot era
For New York-based Snaps Media Inc., emojis are serious business. The startup helps Fortune 500 companies such as Marriott International Inc. and Nike Inc. extend marketing campaigns to the mobile messaging services in which consumers are spending a growing portion of their time. Today, it announced the completion of a $6 million financing round led ...
Duo Security, authentication provider to web giants, raises $70M
More than 10,000 organizations, including web giants such as Facebook Inc., rely on Duo Security Inc.’s technology to manage access to their infrastructure. Today, the startup announced that it has raised $70 million in funding to help it grow that number even more. The round was jointly led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital. ...