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Segment raises $64M to free brands’ customer data
The numerous channels through which companies engage customers nowadays provide a tremendous amount of information about their buying preferences. But marketing personnel often struggle to take full advantage of the data since it’s typically spread out between disparate systems, a problem that Segment Inc. has set out to solve. The startup’s efforts are supported by $64 million in ...
Cisco acquires cloud security startup Observable Networks
Alongside a steady inflow of venture capital, the cybersecurity industry is also seeing a great deal of merger and acquisition activity as leading technology suppliers work to bolster their network protection capabilities. The latest player to have entered the mergers and acquisitions spotlight is Cisco Systems Inc., which today picked up a startup called Observable ...
Eric Schmidt’s fund joins $7.5M round into cloud backup startup OwnBackup
While the industry’s leading software as a service providers take great pains to protect customer records, data loss is still a concern for companies due to risks such as user error and hacking. OwnBackup Ltd. is working to help organizations prepare for such contingencies. The startup’s efforts have today attracted a $7.5 million investment led by ...
Microsoft launches new lab to explore multi-purpose AI, adds ethics panel
Microsoft Corp. is investing heavily in artificial intelligence research to try to gain an edge over the other tech giants working to incorporate the technology into their products. As part of the push, the company today said it has set up a new lab at its Redmond, Washington headquarters that will focus on the development ...
Lightbend, the startup behind the Scala programming language, raises $15M
A recent developer survey from Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange Inc.) shows that only 4 percent of professional programmers use the scalable language Scala in their projects. That’s a far cry from the 38 percent market share of Java, the go-to language in the enterprise, but investors believe there’s a lot of potential for growth. A consortium ...
Report: Symantec may offload its troubled web certificate business
In parallel with its efforts to double down on high-growth areas such as endpoint security, Symantec Corp. has been working to scale back traditional businesses with more limited prospects. A new Reuters report indicates that the company’s web certificate group may be the next division to end up on the auction block. Three sources have ...
Investors bet $20M on Gong.io, a startup using AI to analyze sales calls
An artificial intelligence program couldn’t conduct a sales call or close a deal, but the technology can go a long way toward easing such tasks for humans. That’s the proposition put forth by Gong.io Ltd., which today announced it has secured $20 million in funding to apply the power of machine learning to customer acquisition. The ...
Symantec picks up mobile security startup Skycure
Symantec Corp. is investing heavily to expand its security capabilities amid the fierce competition in the cybersecurity market. The company last week acquired browser isolation provider Fireglass Ltd. and returned to the headlines today after picking up Skycure Ltd., another breach prevention startup that focuses on mobile devices. Skycure offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform aimed ...
Once again, Citrix replaces CEO amid shift to cloud services
A year and a half after its last reshuffle, the leadership team at Citrix Systems Inc. is already undergoing another major change. The biggest news is the departure of Kirill Tatarinov, who came aboard as the desktop virtualization giant’s chief executive officer last January following 13 years at Microsoft Corp. Citrix divulged on Monday that the ...
Twitter veterans’ startup nabs $10.5M to change how applications are wired
During their five-year stint at Twitter Inc., William Morgan and Oliver Gould played a central role in doing away with the notorious Fail Whale that embodied the social network’s early growth pains. The duo has now raised $10.5 million from a consortium led by Benchmark Capital to help other companies overcome their own service reliability ...