Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Microsoft Corp. today marked the first anniversary of its fast-growing Slack alternative becoming generally available by introducing several major feature announcements centered on artificial intelligence. The first capability is an integration with the company’s Cortana virtual assistant that will allow workers to use spoken commands …
Former Docker CEO Ben Golub takes the reins at blockchain startup Storj Labs
Former Docker Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ben Golub, who helped turn the company from a fledgling startup into a major force in the software development world, is taking his expertise to a new area: the blockchain ecosystem. A decentralized storage startup called Storj …
Dropbox seeks to raise up to $648M in IPO, with an $8B valuation target
Dropbox Inc. today revealed plans to raise up to $648 million in its forthcoming initial public offering, which would give it a valuation as high as $8 million when taking into account restricted stock. The IPO will see the cloud storage company sell …
InfoSum launches new platform to bring privacy into user data analytics
InfoSum Ltd., a British analytics startup backed by $8 million in funding, today burst onto the scene with a new platform built to address one of the biggest challenges that enterprises face when trying to extract insight from their information. Large-scale analytics …
Dropbox and Salesforce forge new alliance to bring their platforms closer together
Hot on the heels of launching a collaboration with Google LLC to provide a better experience for joint customers, Dropbox Inc. today announced another significant cloud partnership that should help further raise the appeal of its platform. The cloud storage provider will team …
Uber reportedly close to selling Southeast Asia business to rival Grab
Following months of speculation that Uber Technologies Inc. is weighing a retreat from the Southeast Asian ride-sharing market, the company may finally push through with the move. A Bloomberg report published today cited multiple sources as saying that Uber is “close” to …
Starsky Robotics picks up $16.5M to put self-driving trucks on the road
Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics Inc. today announced that its effort to automate the logistics industry has received a boost in the form of a $16.5 million funding round led by Shasta Ventures. The investment, which also saw the participation of several …
Microsoft will ship a built-in AI platform with the next release of Windows 10
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a new artificial intelligence toolkit for Windows 10 that will pave the way to the development of desktop applications with built-in machine learning capabilities. The technology, which the company calls Windows ML, is set to release with the …
Tech giants back $20M investment into meeting bot startup Voicera
Voicera (Rizio Inc.), a Menlo Park, California-based startup using artificial intelligence to make business meetings more productive, today announced that it has raised $20 million in funding from a who’s who of technology companies. The investment saw the participation of Alphabet Inc., …
IBM unveils an experimental analytics service for understanding the physical world
In analytics projects that seek to answer complex real-world questions such as how to reduce a farm’s water usage, researchers must typically collect data from multiple sources over an extended period of time. IBM Corp. today unveiled an experimental new service aimed …