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Amazon’s Echo speakers now support free calls, messages
The screen-equipped Echo Show isn’t the only addition that Amazon.com Inc. made to its smart speaker family today. The company is also rolling out a new communications service that will allow users to contact one another at no charge. Appropriately called Alexa Calling & Messaging, the feature will enable Echo devices to substitute a mobile ...
Signal Science, a security startup protecting tech giants, raises $15M
Adobe Systems Inc., Etsy Inc. and a growing number of other firms are entrusting the security of their web services to Signal Sciences Corp, a three-year-old startup that is on a mission to shake up the breach prevention segment. Today, it moved a step closer toward reaching that goal. Signal Sciences has closed a $15 million investment that ...
Tricentis and Panaya team up to ease SAP projects
One of the main reasons why SAP SE’s software products have become ubiquitous in the enterprise is that they can be customized according to the specific requirements of an organization. But the provider’s approach comes at the expense of complexity, a trade-off that becomes especially pronounced when it’s time to update a deployment. Tricentis Inc. ...
Confluent takes Kafka’s data streaming capabilities to the cloud
Fast-rising data processing startup Confluent Inc. is turning to the cloud in a bid to speed up its growth. The company today introduced a managed edition of Apache Kafka, the popular open-source data distribution engine created by its founders, that is positioned as a more convenient alternative to the vanilla version. Dubbed Confluent Cloud, the platform ...
MapD opens up its speedy database powered by graphics chips
MapD Technologies Inc., a fast-rising analytics startup backed by the likes of New Enterprise Associates and Nvidia Corp., beefed up its product lineup today in a bid to open new growth opportunities. The biggest addition is a new open-source version of its flagship MapD Core relational store. What sets the system apart from the alternatives is the ...
Reports: Microsoft is bringing chatbots to Bing
If recent reports are to be believed, search engines could be the next frontier of the chatbot revolution. Inside sources told The Verge on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. will announce plans to integrate bots into Bing at its Build developer conference next week. The leak is supported by the schedule that Microsoft has published through the ...
Oracle inks massive cloud deal with AT&T
Oracle Corp. is marking a new milestone in its effort to transition from selling traditional on-premises software to cloud services. The company announced today that AT&T Inc. has agreed to adopt its infrastructure and platform as a service offerings as part of a massive deal that encompasses petabytes of data. The company didn’t share a specific ...
Fraud detection startup Signifyd raises $56M round led by Bain Capital
With e-commerce accounting for a rapidly growing portion of the retail industry’s revenue, merchants are investing heavily to protect their online storefronts from scammers. Signifyd Inc. is one of the startups working to capitalize on the trend. The San Jose, California-based fraud detection provider announced today that it’s bolstering its efforts with $45 million in ...
Fast-rising user analytics startup Heap raises $27M to take on Google
Despite its late entry into user analytics, Heap Inc. is emerging as a serious contender against the tech giants that dominate the field. The startup, which has won over more than 6,000 companies since launching four years ago, further cemented its position today by securing $27 million in new funding. The financing comes courtesy of four returning ...
Flash memory producer Micron intros its own storage system
In addition to supplying flash memory for other companies’ storage arrays, Micron Technology Inc. now wants to sell its own storage systems. The semiconductor giant today unveiled a new top-of-rack platform called SolidScale that targets modern data centers where applications require the ability to pull up large volumes of information in a hurry. According to ...