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Shares of Zscaler Inc. more than doubled in their trading debut today following a successful initial public offering that netted the cloud security company a war chest of $192 million. The stock sale marks the first major tech IPO of 2018. The …
Employee training could be the next market for Amazon’s cloud
A new report suggests that Amazon Web Services Inc. may look to enter the multibillion-dollar employee training market by introducing a specialized new service on its cloud platform. CNBC today cited two anonymous sources as saying that the offering from Amazon.com Inc.’s …
GV leads $14.5M round into collaborative AR startup Blue Vision Labs
Blue Vision Labs Inc. today exited stealth mode to tackle what it sees as a major barrier to widespread augmented reality adoption: Most AR applications don’t allow users to share virtual experiences with others. Along with the launch, the London-based startup announced that …
Amid growing competition, Adobe bolsters its electronic signature capabilities
Adobe Systems Inc.’s strategy for competing in the crowded document management segment rests on two pillars. The first is the ubiquitous Acrobat family of PDF editing tools, and the other is Adobe Sign, the company’s electronic signature service, which is receiving major …
SAP brings Concur expense management to Slack with two new chatbots
SAP SE is expanding the reach of Concur, the market-leading expense management service that it acquired for $8 billion in 2014. Concur Labs, an engineering group that SAP SE entrusts with developing new ways for workers to use the platform, today introduced …
Microsoft claims breakthrough with AI that translates news as well as a human
Microsoft Corp. researchers this morning revealed that they have developed an artificial intelligence capable of translating text with the same accuracy as a human. The system, which took three separate teams to build, is designed to translate sentences from Chinese news articles into English. It incorporates several …
AI-driven IT operations startup Moogsoft raises $40M round led by Goldman Sachs
Moogsoft Inc., a startup competing in an emerging market segment aimed at applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to information technology operations, today announced the completion of a late-stage $40 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s growth equity division. A …
Salesforce to acquire business e-commerce startup CloudCraze
Salesforce.com Inc.’s latest acquisition focuses on addressing the rapid growth of the e-commerce market. The company late Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire CloudCraze LLC, a Chicago-based startup with a cloud platform for managing online storefronts. What sets the service apart …
Cloudflare’s new edge computing service aims to accelerate the web
Cloudflare Inc. today launched a new service to help companies speed up their online services by deploying code in closer physical proximity to users. The offering, which is called Cloudflare Workers, does so by harnessing the web optimization giant’s global network of 127 …
Rundeck aims to automate IT with new “operations-as-a-service” tool
Rundeck is a low key open-source platform used at companies such as The Walt Disney Co., Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. to automate their infrastructure operations. Rundeck Inc., a venture-backed startup founded by the software’s creators, today pulled back the curtains …