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Samsung to invest $18.6B into expanding memory production
As global demand for flash memory continues to rise, the semiconductor industry is ramping up production to meet it. One of the manufacturers leading the charge is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, which yesterday revealed plans to invest 20.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion) into expanding its chip business. The lion’s share, 14.4 trillion won ($14.7 billion), will ...
Recruiting automation startup Harver raises $8.1M in its bid to replace the resume
Resumes are a fundamental part of recruiting, but they only provide so much insight into a job applicant’s suitability. Harver BV, a four-year-old startup based in Amsterdam, claims to have come up with a better means of screening candidates. The firm offers a cloud service that promises to help companies attract workers with a lower turnover ...
Bain bets $2M on StorageOS, a startup working to simplify container projects
Building an application that can be used in containers, which allows software to run across many computing environments, has become much simpler in recent years thanks to the work of Docker Inc. and other key providers. But there remain several technical obstacles. One of the biggest is the difficulty of managing workloads such as databases ...
Google enhances the AI behind its computer vision services
As of this week, companies that rely on Google Inc.’s cloud platform to process their media assets should see a noticeable improvement in results. The search giant on Thursday announced several enhancements to its object recognition services aimed at increasing the accuracy with which they can identify and categorize items. Most of the changes affect Google’s Cloud ...
LinkedIn open-sources its internal tools for dealing with outages
LinkedIn’s tradition of sharing internal technologies with the developer community is going as strong as ever under Microsoft Corp.’s wing. Its latest contribution is a pair of incident management tools designed to ease the task of responding to technical issues. In a blog post published this morning, LinkedIn engineer Daniel Wang wrote that they were originally ...
Microsoft confirms it’s buying cloud automation startup Cloudyn
Three weeks after picking up Israeli cybersecurity specialist Hexadite Ltd. for a reported $100 million, Microsoft Corp. is marking yet another acquisition in the country. The technology giant today announced that it has entered an agreement to buy Cloudyn Software Ltd., a startup focused on helping organizations manage their off-premises infrastructure. Insiders first leaked word of the deal ...
Accenture doubles down on connected devices with Intrepid acquisition
Harnessing the countless connected devices that are expected to come online in coming years will pose a major technical challenge to enterprises. For Accenture plc, this represents an equally large consulting opportunity. The professional services giant stepped up its efforts to monetize the connected universe today by acquiring Intrepid LLC, a Boston-based digital agency that makes software ...
Salesforce debuts new AI services for developers
Salesforce.com Inc. is the latest tech giant looking to capitalize on the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence among developers. At an event in San Francisco today, the company unveiled a set of AI services designed to ease the creation of applications on top of its customer relationship management platform. They extend the Einstein lineup of machine ...
Demisto’s incident management bot can now learn from human security pros
Many modern security tools employ machine learning to identify patterns in hacker behavior and deploy appropriate countermeasures. Today, Demisto Inc. is taking it a step further with a new release of its incident management platform that also mixes in lessons from human network protection professionals. The capability, which the startup touts as an industry first, ...
Akamai harnesses its massive online reach to fight hackers
Akamai Technologies Inc. is working to expand its cybersecurity portfolio in a bid to address companies’ growing concerns about hacking. The newest addition to the lineup is Enterprise Threat Protector, a cloud-based platform aimed at fending off attacks that exploit the Domain Name System at the foundation of the web. As one of the world’s largest provider ...