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With $2.8M in funding, AI startup Julie Desk sets out to automate scheduling
Virtual assistants have become so closely associated with messaging services such as Slack Technologies Inc. that they’re now referred to as chatbots more often than not. But the technology is finding its way to other channels as well, including traditional email. One of the startups driving the trend is Julie Desk, which secured €2.5 million (or ...
RiskRecon raises $12M to help firms identify supplier vulnerabilities
Keeping a company’s data beyond the reach of hackers requires much more than defending its internal infrastructure. Organizations must also worry about the security of the cloud providers and other external parties with which they share their information, a challenge that RiskRecon Inc. is trying to alleviate. To support its efforts, the Salt Lake City-based ...
Adobe launches app to turn physical documents into PDFs
Adobe Systems Inc. is extending its Sensei artificial intelligence to mobile devices. The technology giant today introduced an app called Scan that harnesses the device’s computer vision capabilities to let users digitize physical documents. Like other tools in the category, it provides the ability to capture the contents of a record using a smartphone or ...
Google announces new Gmail security enhancements
Between 50 and 70 percent of the incoming emails processed by Gmail in a given day are spam, but only about one out of every thousand messages that actually reach users meet the same criteria. This is thanks to sophisticated filtering algorithms that the search giant made public today alongside several other security enhancements. The first ...
Salesforce launches $50M fund to boost partner ecosystem
A month after setting aside $100 million to invest in companies that are building applications for its cloud platform, Salesforce.com Inc. has launched yet another partner fund. The SI Trailblazer Fund, as it’s called, is worth $50 million and will be dedicated to backing consulting firms. Besides capital, portfolio companies will receive access to an accelerator ...
Data operations startup StreamSets raises $20M in funding
The logistics of transporting data are a major focus in enterprise analytics projects. Some records must be converted into a special format before they can be loaded into a number-crunching system, while others require extensive filtering to weed out errors. StreamSets Inc. wants to help organizations work through the checklist more easily. For its efforts, ...
People.ai raises $7M to help salespeople land more deals
There’s still a long way to go before artificial intelligence could threaten to automate positions in areas such as sales that require a special human touch. But the technology can identify opportunities to increase output that might normally go unnoticed. That’s the value proposition put forth by People.ai Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on ...
Meet Intel’s new $1,999 flagship desktop processor
Moore’s Law, the reality that the number of transistors on a chip has doubled every couple of years for decades, may be increasingly difficult for the semiconductor industry to follow, but Intel Corp. has still managed to handily up the performance ante with its latest desktop processors. The chip maker today unveiled a new family of ...
Continuing tech IPO streak, finance software firm Alfa pops 30 percent in London debut
U.S.-based tech firms aren’t the only ones benefiting from investors’ strong appetite for software. Alfa Financial Software Holdings Plc, a British provider of finance tools, saw its valuation surge after hitting the London Stock Exchange in an initial public offering on Friday. Bloomberg reports that the company’s shares rose as much as 30 percent above ...
Rulai raises $6.5M to help companies build multipurpose chatbots
Since chatbots hit Silicon Valley’s radar a few quarters ago, barely a week goes by without a funding announcement from a startup that’s involved in the trend. On cue, Campbell, California-based Rulai entered the spotlight on Thursday with $6.5 million in fresh capital and a toolkit designed to ease the creation of virtual assistants. The ...