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Many of the startups working to commercialize artificial intelligence nowadays have chosen recruiting as the area where they wish to make their mark. Among them is Paris-based Clustree SA, which today said it has raised $7.9 million from local funds Idinvest Partners …
DigitalOcean adds firewall service to target serious workloads
DigitalOcean Inc. is pursuing an aggressive development roadmap to counter the competition from Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the other bigger players in the cloud market. The provider passed another milestone today after launching a native firewall for its infrastructure as a …
Newly public Alteryx buys Y Combinator-backed Yhat to speed data science projects
Three months after going public in a $126 million offering, analytics powerhouse Alteryx Inc. is putting some of that money to use. At a user event in Las Vegas today, the company announced that it has acquired Yhat Inc., a Y Combinator-backed …
Cumulus launches tool for troubleshooting software-defined networks
The automated nature of software-defined networks makes it relatively straightforward to roll out changes, but this convenience comes at a cost. The fact that implementing an update requires little to no manual input means errors can spread across an environment before anyone …
Stealthy IoT security startup Armis closes $17M round
The rapid spread of connected devices is making it difficult for companies to keep track of all the hardware linked to their networks, which creates blind spots that can be exploited by a determined attacker. Fortunately, this threat is emerging as a …
Workey raises $8M for its AI-powered recruiting platform
Workey Employees Recruitments Ltd. believes that artificial intelligence can make hiring smoother both for recruiters and for candidates. The Israeli startup, which announced today that it has secured $8 million in funding, runs a job board that employs machine learning technology to …
Salesforce beefs up Heroku with new security controls
Salesforce.com Inc. wants to help Heroku customers protect their workloads more easily. To that end, the cloud giant today released a security toolkit for the application platform that aims to reduce the amount of work involved in meeting compliance standards. It’s modeled …
NetApp jumps into the hyperconverged infrastructure market
Four months after revealing plans to enter the hyperconverged infrastructure market, NetApp Inc. is officially joining the fray with a new system it’s touting as the “most far-reaching” innovation in its 25-year history. The NetApp HCI is an appliance that offers up …
Moore’s Law lives: In computing milestone, IBM develops 5-nanometer chip
While chip market leader Intel Corp. is only just starting to experiment with transistors that are 7 nanometers thick, a consortium led by IBM Corp. has already reached the next evolutionary stage of semiconductor technology. Engineers from the company’s research arm, Samsung …
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 …