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Alphabet is building a salt-powered system for storing renewable energy
Alphabet Inc.’s latest moonshot project appears to be one of its most ambitious yet. Google Inc.’s parent company has revealed to Bloomberg that its secretive X research group is working on a project meant to tackle one of the biggest economic obstacles to renewable energy initiatives: underutilization. The issue lies with the fact that solar and ...
Rackspace deepens AWS partnership to ease cloud transition for more enterprises
The public cloud is by now on almost every company’s agenda, but many lack the expertise necessary to move mission-critical applications off their in-house infrastructure. Rackspace Inc. is looking to help. The cloud specialist today expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. in a bid to better support organizations that are making the shift to ...
Report: Dropbox is working with Goldman Sachs to prepare for an IPO
Ten years after hitting the scene, file-sharing giant Dropbox Inc. may finally be ready to take the first serious steps towards an initial public offering of stock. The offering would present another sign that more technology companies are looking to IPO in a year in which offerings have come in fits and starts. Today, the ...
After dismissing acquisition rumors, Mitel picks up ShoreTel for $530M
Amid reports that team messaging giant Slack Technologies Inc. is looking to raise $250 million from investors, another major player in the enterprise communications industry has inked a nine-figure deal of its own. Mitel Networks Corp. today announced an agreement to acquire publicly traded competitor ShoreTel Inc. for $530 million in cash. The deal comes a ...
Callsign raises $35M to tailor authentication for every login
Multifactor authentication is one of the most reliable ways to combat account hijacking, but it’s typically applied in a fairly rigid way that requires users to perform the same verification steps regardless of the circumstances. London’s Callsign Ltd. today said it has secured a $35 million investment led by Accel and early-stage fund PTB Ventures ...
Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps
When Tricentis GmbH closed its massive $165 million funding round earlier this year, Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Johri suggested that some of the capital may go toward strategic acquisitions. The first such deal is now officially in the bag. The Vienna, Austria-based software testing provider said today it has picked up a startup called Flood ...
Cementing its market position, OpenText buys Guidance Software for $240M
Companies must check off a long list of operational requirements when it comes to handling internal data. One of the most important is enabling executives and other non-technical personnel to quickly retrieve documents necessary for their work, a need that has given rise to the multibillion-dollar enterprise information management industry. OpenText Corp., the largest pure-play ...
Microsoft aims for a cloud edge with new Azure Container Instances
Launching a Docker container takes only a single line of code, but as the number of instances in an environment starts adding up, managing them becomes a much more difficult ordeal. Microsoft Corp. now hopes to take some complexity out of the task for its customers. The company today introduced Azure Container Instances, a service ...
Cleo’s personal-finance bot attracts $2.6M in funding
While most of the consumer-focused players in the financial technology segment are looking to replace traditional banks, Cleo Ltd. has a different target in its sights: those banks’ mobile apps. The London-based startup, which said today it has secured £2 million ($2.6 million) in funding, offers a chatbot that enables users to manage their finances ...
HubSpot picks up Kemvi to gain an edge in the AI arms race
HubSpot Inc. is determined to catch the artificial intelligence wave that is sweeping through Silicon Valley. So today, the publicly traded marketing automation provider today announced the acquisition of Kemvi Inc., a small startup that has applied machine learning to market research. Kemvi’s flagship DeepGraph platform scans the web for press releases, regulatory filings, social ...