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Stealthy IoT security startup Armis closes $17M round
The rapid spread of connected devices is making it difficult for companies to keep track of all the hardware linked to their networks, which creates blind spots that can be exploited by a determined attacker. Fortunately, this threat is emerging as a growing priority for cybersecurity providers. Among them is Armis Inc., a stealth startup headquartered ...
Workey raises $8M for its AI-powered recruiting platform
Workey Employees Recruitments Ltd. believes that artificial intelligence can make hiring smoother both for recruiters and for candidates. The Israeli startup, which announced today that it has secured $8 million in funding, runs a job board that employs machine learning technology to match users with open positions. When a professional creates a profile on Workey, ...
Salesforce beefs up Heroku with new security controls
Salesforce.com Inc. wants to help Heroku customers protect their workloads more easily. To that end, the cloud giant today released a security toolkit for the application platform that aims to reduce the amount of work involved in meeting compliance standards. It’s modeled after Salesforce Shield, the encryption and monitoring bundle that the company sells for ...
NetApp jumps into the hyperconverged infrastructure market
Four months after revealing plans to enter the hyperconverged infrastructure market, NetApp Inc. is officially joining the fray with a new system it’s touting as the “most far-reaching” innovation in its 25-year history. The NetApp HCI is an appliance that offers up to 36 processing cores for running virtual machines and as much as 44 ...
Moore’s Law lives: In computing milestone, IBM develops 5-nanometer chip
While chip market leader Intel Corp. is only just starting to experiment with transistors that are 7 nanometers thick, a consortium led by IBM Corp. has already reached the next evolutionary stage of semiconductor technology. Engineers from the company’s research arm, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and GlobalFoundries Inc. are currently testing the world’s first batch ...
With $2.8M in funding, AI startup Julie Desk sets out to automate scheduling
Virtual assistants have become so closely associated with messaging services such as Slack Technologies Inc. that they’re now referred to as chatbots more often than not. But the technology is finding its way to other channels as well, including traditional email. One of the startups driving the trend is Julie Desk, which secured €2.5 million (or ...
RiskRecon raises $12M to help firms identify supplier vulnerabilities
Keeping a company’s data beyond the reach of hackers requires much more than defending its internal infrastructure. Organizations must also worry about the security of the cloud providers and other external parties with which they share their information, a challenge that RiskRecon Inc. is trying to alleviate. To support its efforts, the Salt Lake City-based ...
Adobe launches app to turn physical documents into PDFs
Adobe Systems Inc. is extending its Sensei artificial intelligence to mobile devices. The technology giant today introduced an app called Scan that harnesses the device’s computer vision capabilities to let users digitize physical documents. Like other tools in the category, it provides the ability to capture the contents of a record using a smartphone or ...
Google announces new Gmail security enhancements
Between 50 and 70 percent of the incoming emails processed by Gmail in a given day are spam, but only about one out of every thousand messages that actually reach users meet the same criteria. This is thanks to sophisticated filtering algorithms that the search giant made public today alongside several other security enhancements. The first ...
Salesforce launches $50M fund to boost partner ecosystem
A month after setting aside $100 million to invest in companies that are building applications for its cloud platform, Salesforce.com Inc. has launched yet another partner fund. The SI Trailblazer Fund, as it’s called, is worth $50 million and will be dedicated to backing consulting firms. Besides capital, portfolio companies will receive access to an accelerator ...