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TetraVue raises $10M to build better sensors for self-driving cars
Many if not most of the companies currently developing autonomous vehicles buy their object recognition equipment from Mobileye N.V., but it’s hardly the only provider out there. One of the most promising contenders is a low-key firm called TetraVue Inc. that entered the spotlight for the first time on Thursday after revealing that it has raised $10 ...
Aviso, the data science startup helping tech giants boost sales, raises $8M
Salespeople at the world’s top tech firms have long abandoned the traditional manual approach to managing their deal-making efforts. Instead, they employ automation tools from the likes of Aviso Inc., which announced today that it has raised $8 million in funding. The Menlo Park, California-based startup currently counts Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Inc., Splunk Inc., ...
Microsoft pushes back key Windows security update by an entire month
Despite the difficulty of keeping up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape, Microsoft Corp. has managed to issue new security updates for Windows consistently every month since 2003. As a result, company watchers were taken off guard on Wednesday when it announced that the patch originally scheduled for this Tuesday had been pushed back to ...
Verizon acquires startup Skyward to manage drone fleets
Verizon Communications Inc.’s ambitions for the burgeoning drone market aren’t limited to merely providing operators with access to its wireless network. The carrier also plans to offer value-added tools for easing fleet operations, a plan that was set into motion today following the announcement that it’s acquiring Skyward IO Inc. The Portland-based startup, which has ...
IBM and Visa team up to enable new Internet of Things business models with Watson
In the future, smart cars may not only gain the ability to navigate the roads without human input but also become independent enough to pay automatically after refueling at a gas station. That’s the vision IBM Corp. and Visa Inc. laid out today during the opening event for Big Blue’s new $200 million Watson IoT ...
Radar launches platform to take the hassle out of building location services
Location data is finding use in a growing number of applications ranging from optimizing supply chain operations to cutting travel times for field personnel. But many companies still struggle to take advantage of their information because of the technical challenges involved, a barrier that Radar Inc. wants to remove. The New York-based startup exited stealth ...
IBM opens access to Watson’s core machine learning component
The last few years have seen IBM Corp. apply its Watson artificial intelligence to a wide variety of areas ranging from speech recognition to drug research. But the company can’t address every single use case alone, a limitation that it’s now looking to remove. IBM today unveiled a standalone implementation of the machine learning technology ...
Armed with $10M in new funding, IOVOX moves to unlock the world’s call data
Another promising startup has raised funding to unlock the valuable data lurking in business calls. London-based IOVOX Ltd. today announced that it has received $10 million from Silicon Valley Bank, SF Capital and a British fund called Octopus Ventures. The funding comes a week after Chorus.ai Inc. secured an eight-digit investment to help salespeople learn ...
Samanage reels in $20M to change how companies support their users
There are numerous tools out there that promise to help companies streamline their internal support operations, but many of them hail from a time when on-premises software still ruled the workplace. Samanage Inc. has taken it upon itself to bring the industry into the cloud era. The North Carolina-based provider today secured a $20 million ...
DigitalOcean fills gap in its public cloud with new managed load balancing
With its public cloud on the verge of reaching a million users, DigitalOcean Inc. is ramping up feature development to ensure that new bookings keep coming down the pipe. The latest fruit of the provider’s efforts is a new load balancing mechanism designed to help customers distribute work among their virtual machines more easily. Like the ...