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MapAnything raises $33.1M to become the Waze of field operations
For consumers, planning a travel route is as easy as inputting a few commands into the Google Inc. traffic app Waze. But field personnel often don’t have the same luxury thanks to the complexity of their schedules, a discrepancy that MapAnything Inc. has taken upon itself to tackle. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based startup on Thursday ...
Xnor.io raises $2.6M to bring machine vision to every device
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where self-driving cars can recognize and avoid potential dangers better than humans in some cases. But doing so requires a great of deal of processing power, a barrier that Seattle’s Xnor.io Inc. wants to remove. The startup today closed a $2.4 million seed investment to make machine vision technology ...
Salesforce.com buys creative agency Sequence to bolster its UX chops
A month into 2017, Salesforce.com Inc. has already made its first acquisition of the year. The company on the other end of the deal wasn’t a startup like most of the cloud giant’s recent acquisitions, but rather an 11-year-old creative agency called Sequence. Roy Jojo, the firm’s chief executive, broke the news in a blog ...
Security startup Bitglass broadens its cloud focus, adds Amazon support
After spending its first four years helping companies protect the data they keep in Office 365 and other leading cloud apps, Bitglass Inc. is moving into the broader cloud computing market. The startup kicked off the expansion into infrastructure-as-a-service today by adding support for market leader Amazon Web Services to its flagship reverse proxy. Described as ...
Google Cloud co-opts Microsoft’s Windows Server Core, SQL Server
The co-opetition among the world’s top cloud computing providers is becoming more pronounced. Google Inc. kicked it up another notch today by adding support for two of Microsoft Corp.’s most important software products to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The first is Windows Server Core, a slimmed-down operating system that has relatively few components for hackers to target ...
SoundHound raises $75M to create a voice-controlled future
For SoundHound Inc., developing a wildly popular app with hundreds of millions of downloads was just the first step toward success. The Santa Clara-based startup, which has carved out a niche by helping mobile users identify unfamiliar songs, Tuesday said it has raised $75 million to launch the next stage of its plan. SoundHound is looking ...
Cisco’s newest switch is designed to power smart buildings
Before the term “switching” joined the information technology lexicon, it was used primarily in the context of electrical engineering. Cisco Systems Inc. believes that it’s now time to bring these two fields together. The company today launched a new line of switches called the Catalyst Digital Building Series that’s designed to serve as a central hub for managing ...
Slack launches Enterprise Grid to target the corporate crowd
Despite racking up numerous Fortune 500 clients since launching in 2014, Slack Technologies Inc. believes that its service could still do better among the corporate crowd. The startup is putting this theory to the test today by launching a new tier of the messaging platform that is specifically designed with multinational firms in mind. Enterprise ...
Aiming at enterprises, Google launches new security features for G Suite
Starting today, the 3 million organizations that rely on G Suite should have an easier time protecting their cloud-based records. Google is rolling out new administrative controls for the suite of productivity apps that are aimed at reducing the risk of workers misplacing business information or falling victim to data theft. The most wide-reaching change affects G ...
Zenefits expands its HR platform with new apps, integrations
When Zenefits Inc. redesigned its workforce management platform last November, the move was hailed as a milestone for the company’s efforts to get back on the saddle. But the upgrade was only the first step in a broader effort aimed at extending the cloud suite’s reach to new areas. Zenefits crossed two more use cases ...