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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 ...
Abandoning hosting ambitions, Verizon sells private cloud business to IBM
Six years after joining the infrastructure as a service race with the acquisition of Terremark Worldwide Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. is officially bowing out. The carrier on Tuesday revealed it has sold its private cloud hosting business, the last remnant of the acquisition, to IBM Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Verizon made the news public within ...
Docker hires veteran Steve Singh as CEO to lead commercialization efforts
Docker Inc. is starting a new chapter in its business journey today with a landmark executive hire. The buzzed-about software container startup announced this morning that it has appointed Steve Singh, a 20-year veteran of the tech industry, as chief executive officer. Singh is best known for founding business travel and expense management giant Concur ...
Salesforce aims to scale its app ecosystem with new $100M fund, partner program
Like Amazon.com Inc. and other major players in the cloud, Salesforce.com Inc. relies heavily on partners to address customer demands that fall outside its main focus area. The company announced two major updates today that aim to help members of its ecosystem step up their work. The first is a commitment to allocate $100 million ...
AI startup Bitfusion raises $5M to simplify deep learning projects
The complexity of artificial intelligence workloads can make them incredibly difficult to deploy. Application teams must set up specialized infrastructure to efficiently support the deep learning neural network algorithms running under the hood, a task that BitFusion.io Inc. is working to ease. The startup is supported by $5 million in new funding courtesy of Sierra Ventures, Data Collective, ...
User engagement giant Jive to go private in $462 million deal
Six years after hitting the stock exchange, Jive Software Inc. is returning to private ownership. The company, which helps brands create online portals where they can interact with their users, today announced that it has accepted a $462 million buyout offer from ESW Capital LLC. The acquisition will be carried out by Wave Systems Corp., a subsidiary ...