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Microsoft, eBay lead $1.4B funding of Indian e-commerce phenom Flipkart
India’s booming online economy is attracting interest from tech companies the world over. Two of the biggest names that are working to establish a foothold in the country are Microsoft Corp. and eBay Inc., which today banded together to lead a $1.4 billion funding round into e-commerce powerhouse Flipkart Ltd. They were joined by China’s ...
IBM brings Watson AI to the help desk
Now that more and more companies are deploying chatbots to streamline their help desk operations, IBM Corp. is looking to join the fray with Watson. The technology giant today introduced a new support service that includes a version of the artificial intelligence optimized for troubleshooting technical problems. Watson can take natural language questions and generate ...
Otonomo, operator of a data exchange for connected cars, raises $25M
Internet-connected vehicles are emerging as a valuable source of data both for the auto industry and external organizations looking to better understand driver behavior. However, meeting the stringent privacy regulations that govern such information is often a challenge for carmakers hoping to share their telemetry. As a result, a growing number of them are turning ...
In a bid to court developers, Twitter launches major API overhaul
As part of its efforts to rekindle revenue growth, Twitter Inc. is rolling out new application programming interfaces today that target companies interested in taking better advantage of social media. The landmark upgrade is set to release in stages and builds on technology that the microblogging company obtained through the acquisition of Gnip Inc. in ...
Uber extends its open-source visualization engine into new frontiers
Like other top tech companies, Uber Technologies Inc. often creates custom software tools for its staff when the products available on the market don’t fully fit the bill. One of the ride-hailing giant’s most notable projects is a data visualization tool called deck.lg that became accessible to the public last year and has received a ...
Dapulse raises $25M to take on the crowded project management market
There are numerous providers of team collaboration services and software that focus on project management, but Dapulse Labs Ltd. believes the market still has room for one more contender. The Israeli startup intends to take on the competition with the help of $25 million in funding that it secured today from Insight Venture Partners, Genesis ...
Google says its ultra-fast AI chips crush the competition
Google Inc. made headlines at its I/O developer event last May after revealing the existence of an internally developed chip (pictured) for running artificial intelligence workloads. Nearly a year later, the search giant is finally opening up about how the processor matches up against commercially available alternatives. Members of Google’s hardware team released a paper ...
E-commerce giant Magento takes aim at the business-to-business world
Magento Inc. has built its reputation on selling tools that help retailers target online shoppers, but its competitive ambitions extend far beyond consumers. At a client event today, the former eBay Inc. subsidiary unveiled a new e-commerce service aimed at companies that sell their wares to fellow organizations. Digital Commerce Cloud for business-to-business promises to ...
Armor raises $89M to grow its cloud security operations
With a customer base of 1,200 organizations, Armor Defense Inc. aims to become a major force in the cybersecurity market, and today the Dallas-based company today announced that it’s speeding up its plans with the help of $89 million in newly raised financing. The capital was provided by ST Telemedia, a part of the Singaporean ...
Fresh off its $3.7B Cisco buyout, AppDynamics revamps its platform
While the AppDynamics Inc. management team was busy sorting out the company’s $3.7 billion sale to Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this year, product development efforts evidently continued as normal. The application monitoring provider today rolled out the first major update to its namesake toolkit since the completion of the acquisition last month. One of the main ...