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LinkedIn’s new platformwide analytics service targets recruiting blind spots
Microsoft Corp. paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn last year first and foremost to obtain its massive trove of information about the world’s working population. Today, the social network unveiled a new service designed to generate a return on that data more directly. LinkedIn Talent Insights provides a visual interface that enables users to access a breakdown of different ...
Kahoot takes its gamified education platform to the enterprise
Outside a purely conceptual point of view, corporate training programs usually have little in common with traditional classroom education. Norway’s Kahoot AS is narrowing the gap. The startup, which recently raised $20 million from a consortium featuring Microsoft Ventures, offers a platform that lets teachers present quizzes and homework assignments in the form of mobile games. Over 40 percent ...
Intel’s new service aims to accelerate the spread of connected devices – safely
Installing smart light bulbs in an office is a fairly trivial task. Deploying several thousands of them in a factory, on the other hand, is an entirely different proposition. The complexity of such large-scale projects represents an obstacle to connected-device adoption that Intel Corp. has set out to remove. At the center of the chip giant’s plans ...
Analytics startup AtScale raises $25M to help enterprises answer big questions
During his time at Yahoo Inc., Dave Mariani had a chance to experience the challenges involved in processing data on a large scale close up. Employees at the web giant employed several different analytics tools as part of their work that each required Mariani’s team to maintain a separate set of supporting technologies and processes. To help ...
Kryon Systems lands $12M to free knowledge workers from repetitive tasks
Kryon Systems Ltd. is working to help companies streamline business operations one back-office application at a time. The Israeli startup, which this morning announced the completion of a $12 million funding round, offers a platform for performing so-called robotic process automation. It’s an emerging use of deep learning that centers on freeing up knowledge workers from performing repetitive ...
With $20M in new funding, OpsRamp sets out to automate hybrid clouds
As cloud adoption continues to widen, administrators must balance the requirements of the new off-premises applications their companies are deploying with the infrastructure that still runs in-house. OpsRamp Inc. has carved out a niche for itself by helping to automate the task. The three-year-old startup, which was bootstrapped up to this point, today announced that ...
Cloud-based communications startup Dialpad lands $17M more in funding
More than 48,000 companies have adopted Dialpad Inc.’s cloud-based communications services since it hit the scene in 2011. On Thursday, the startup announced the completion of a $17 million investment intended to help sustain its growth amid rising competition from rival providers. Dialpad’s flagship offering is a subscription-based platform that allows users to handle all their ...
Report: Lyft is close to hiring an advisory firm for potential 2018 IPO
Lyft Inc. is reportedly preparing to take the first step toward becoming a publicly traded company. Anonymous sources have told Reuters that the ride-hailing giant, which was valued at $7.5 billion after its last funding round, recently wrapped up a series of interviews with advisory firms focused on planning initial public offerings. Lyft is expected to make ...
CallDesk raises $2.5M for its AI-powered take on customer service
Even though the virtual-assistant market has gotten incredibly crowded over the past few quarters, the venture capital community continues backing new entrants. Paris-based CallDesk is the latest beneficiary. The startup has secured a $2.5 million investment from Point Nine Capital and EQT Ventures, an arm of Swedish private equity giant EQT Partners. CallDesk will use ...
Microsoft, Salesforce join $30M funding of identity verification startup Onfido
After seeing revenue grow fivefold in the past year, London-based Onfido Ltd. has secured a fresh capital infusion to keep expanding. The identity verification startup today announced the completion of a $30 million funding round that included contributions from Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. They were joined by a Europe-focused fund called Crane Venture Partners, ...