Maria Deutscher, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

To boost its application ecosystem, Salesforce overhauls AppExchange

By Maria Deutscher Oct 24, 2017

There’s perhaps no better indicator of the key role partners play in Salesforce.com Inc.’s strategy than the fact that 87 percent of its customers use outside apps. Today, the software-as-a-service giant announced a major…

Big Data

Andreessen Horowitz leads $30M funding of marketing analytics startup ActionIQ

By Maria Deutscher Oct 23, 2017

Barely a week seems to go by these days without at least one startup raising capital in a bid to change how companies approach digital marketing. Today, it was ActionIQ Inc.’s turn. The three-year-old…

Cloud

Cisco to buy cloud communications provider BroadSoft for $1.9B

By Maria Deutscher Oct 23, 2017

Cisco Systems Inc. has kicked off the week by announcing plans today to acquire BroadSoft Inc., a Gaithersburg, Maryland-based provider of business communications services, for a hefty $1.9 billion in cash. The price tag amounts…

Emerging Tech

Solvvy raises $12M in funding to infuse machine learning into customer service

By Maria Deutscher Oct 23, 2017

Solvvy Inc., an artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, California, today announced that it has raised $12 million in funding to streamline the customer service experience. Different companies run their help desks in…

Emerging Tech

Google’s new AVA dataset aims to help AI better understand humans

By Maria Deutscher Oct 20, 2017

A week after Facebook Inc. introduced two datasets aimed at helping developers train their computer vision models, Google LLC has upped the ante with a contribution of its own. The company on Thursday released AVA,…

Apps

Lyft picks up $1 billion funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG

By Maria Deutscher Oct 19, 2017

Anonymous tipsters leaked word in September that Lyft Inc. may be looking to raise capital through an initial public offering scheduled for as early as 2018. Those plans have evidently been put on hold. Lyft today announced…

Infra

Dell EMC beefs up its Cloud for Azure Stack appliance

By Maria Deutscher Oct 19, 2017

Dell EMC is giving its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio a major boost. The data center equipment supplier, which operates under the Dell Technologies Inc. umbrella, today unveiled an upgraded version of the Dell EMC Cloud…

Apps

Snaps raises $6M to bring marketing into the chatbot era

By Maria Deutscher Oct 19, 2017

For New York-based Snaps Media Inc., emojis are serious business. The startup helps Fortune 500 companies such as Marriott International Inc. and Nike Inc. extend marketing campaigns to the mobile messaging services in which…

Infra

Duo Security, authentication provider to web giants, raises $70M

By Maria Deutscher Oct 18, 2017

More than 10,000 organizations, including web giants such as Facebook Inc., rely on Duo Security Inc.’s technology to manage access to their infrastructure. Today, the startup announced that it has raised $70 million in funding…

Apps

Apple and GE join forces to build industrial apps for mobile devices

By Maria Deutscher Oct 18, 2017

Apple Inc. and General Electric Co., two companies that have vastly different business priorities most of the time, are joining forces in the mobile market. With a new partnership announced this morning, the two companies…

Maria Deutscher

To boost its application ecosystem, Salesforce overhauls AppExchange

Andreessen Horowitz leads $30M funding of marketing analytics startup ActionIQ

Solvvy raises $12M in funding to infuse machine learning into customer service

Google’s new AVA dataset aims to help AI better understand humans

Dell EMC beefs up its Cloud for Azure Stack appliance

Snaps raises $6M to bring marketing into the chatbot era

Duo Security, authentication provider to web giants, raises $70M

Apple and GE join forces to build industrial apps for mobile devices

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