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Although cloud services such as Slack Inc.’s have come to dominate the conversation around business communications, they constitute only one element of an expansive market. Companies also spend billions of dollars every year on hardware to help their employees collaborate remotely, an …
Hire by Google gets new features to help recruiters fill job openings faster
In many cases, a job opening will attract far more potentially qualified candidates than what the company behind the listing can hire. Google LLC hopes to take advantage of this dynamic to make it easier for recruiters to fill open positions. The search …
VMware acquires startup E8 Security to bolster its device management capabilities
VMware Inc. today revealed that it has acquired E8 Security Inc., a Redwood City, California-based startup that develops software for protecting employee devices from online threats. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Sumit Dhawan, the senior vice president …
Ubiquity6 nabs $10.5M in funding to fill AR’s missing pieces
The challenge of making augmented reality appealing enough for mainstream adoption has caught the attention of both tech giants such as Google LLC and emerging startups. One of the newest players in the race is eight-month-old Ubiquity6 Inc., which today announced that it …
Pure Storage introduces AIRI, a beefy machine for AI workloads
Pure Storage Inc. today unveiled AIRI, a new hardware platform built in collaboration with graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. that targets enterprises pursuing large-scale artificial intelligence initiatives. Introduced at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, the system is a “fully integrated” solution that …
Chat-centered sales startup Intercom raises $125M on $1.3B valuation
Intercom Inc., a sales startup that enables companies to engage prospective customers automatically online, today announced that it has secured a hefty $125 million investment led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers. The venture capital firm was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV private …
With new Experience Cloud updates, Adobe offers a unified customer view
Adobe Systems Inc. set a new sales record last quarter and handily beat analyst expectations thanks to a strong increase in revenue from cloud services. At an event in Las Vegas today, the company unveiled new features aimed at continuing that momentum. …
In latest win over Amazon Web Services, Google inks cloud deal with Shopify
Google LLC is kicking off the week with a major customer win in the public cloud. Dale Neufeld, the vice president of production engineering at Shopify Inc., revealed in a blog post today that the e-commerce giant is shifting its back-end systems …
New DeepMind research applies ‘neuron deletion’ to improve AI models
Artificial intelligence algorithms are highly sophisticated constructs that can contain an eye-watering number of neurons and internal connections. This gives them the power to handle a wide range of complex tasks, but also makes it tricky for researchers to understand the way conclusions …
GitLab brings code integration and delivery to rival hosting service GitHub
GitLab Inc. today rolled out a new release of its widely used code hosting platform that makes one of the software’s most important capabilities available to customers of top rival GitHub Inc. Companies that store their software projects on GitHub now have the ability to …