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With $10.3M in new funding, Terminus wants to bridge sales and marketing
After seeing revenue grow sixfold over the past year, Terminus Software LLC is launching the next phase of its effort to take on the account-based marketing world. The startup got some support for its mission with a fresh $10.3 million investment announced today. Atlanta Ventures and Edison Partners provided the biggest portion of the funding, while the rest ...
Salesforce’s new AI project aims to organize emails and documents
Salesforce.com Inc. believes that artificial intelligence could hold the key to tackling one of the biggest time sinks in the modern workplace: checking email. On Thursday, the company shared details about an internal project aimed at using deep learning to automatically summarize messages and documents so that they can be read more quickly. Salesforce is ...
More from Build: Microsoft unveils cross-device vision for Windows 10
After dedicating the first day of its Build 2017 conference to cloud services, Microsoft Corp. today shifted the focus to Windows 10, unveiling a slew of new updates for the operating system this morning that will affect both consumers and developers. The upshot is that the company built upon the personal computer may have finally crossed ...
Cisco picks up pioneering chatbot startup MindMeld for $125M
After dabbling with the technology here and there over the past few quarters, Cisco Systems Inc. is shifting its chatbot push into high gear. The networking giant today announced that it’s buying MindMeld Inc., an artificial intelligence startup founded by former MIT researcher Tim Tuttle, for $125 million. The deal buys Cisco a chatbot development ...
Neo gives its graph database a major speed boost
Neo Technology Inc. is investing heavily in feature development to keep its popular graph database ahead of the pack. The company delivered the latest batch of enhancements today as part of a new release that is one of the biggest in recent memory. For developers, the most noticeable change will be Neo4j 3.2’s revamped data ...
Unstructured-data search giant Lucidworks makes its first acquisition
In addition to helping organizations make their unstructured-data troves searchable, Lucidworks Inc. now wants to provide the tools for visualizing them. The company set its plan in motion today by acquiring Twigkit Ltd, a British provider of dashboarding software that boasts clients such as General Electric Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Thomson Reuters Corp. Its ...
At Build conference, Microsoft debuts ‘planet-scale’ database, AI training service
Underscoring a big bet by Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella (pictured), cloud computing is dominating the agenda on the first day of the company’s Build 2017 conference. The technology giant today introduced a host of new services for its Azure infrastructure as a service platform that were headlined by Cosmos DB, a managed database ...
Mya Systems reels in $11.4M to automate hiring
Job interviews may soon be performed with the help of artificial intelligence if Mya Systems Inc. has its way. The San Francisco-based startup entered the spotlight today by announcing that it has raised $11.4 million in a round led by Salesforce.com Inc. and Box Inc. investor Emergence Capital. The funds will help fuel the development ...
Zive, a productivity startup taking on Office 365, raises $2.2M
Zive Inc. is a small startup with a big dream: to take on Microsoft Corp. on its home turf. The team’s mission is supported by $2.2 million in seed funding from New York Angels, Blue Tree Allied Angels and Keiretsu Capital Fund that was made public today. The money will go toward fueling the adoption of Zive’s ...
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 ...