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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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Demandbase raises $65M to help business-to-business firms drive more sales
Like their peers in the consumer market, business-to-business companies increasingly rely on online ads as part of their marketing efforts. The difference is that they try to a narrower group of users with authority to make purchases on behalf of their firms, which requires …
Red Hat picks up development tools maker Codenvy
Red Hat Inc.’s lineup of development automation tools is set to receive a major boost. The open-source giant today revealed that it has acquired Codenvy Inc., the startup behind the popular Eclipse Che coding platform. The software, which is available under an Apache …
Tableau offers up new machine learning, hybrid cloud features to data pros
Tableau Software Inc. wants to reduce the amount of effort involved in creating dashboards using its popular data visualization platform. The company today debuted a new release of the product that aims to streamline several key parts of the workflow, starting with the …