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Verizon Communications Inc.’s ambitions for the burgeoning drone market aren’t limited to merely providing operators with access to its wireless network. The carrier also plans to offer value-added tools for easing fleet operations, a plan that was set into motion today following …
IBM and Visa team up to enable new Internet of Things business models with Watson
In the future, smart cars may not only gain the ability to navigate the roads without human input but also become independent enough to pay automatically after refueling at a gas station. That’s the vision IBM Corp. and Visa Inc. laid out …
Radar launches platform to take the hassle out of building location services
Location data is finding use in a growing number of applications ranging from optimizing supply chain operations to cutting travel times for field personnel. But many companies still struggle to take advantage of their information because of the technical challenges involved, a …
IBM opens access to Watson’s core machine learning component
The last few years have seen IBM Corp. apply its Watson artificial intelligence to a wide variety of areas ranging from speech recognition to drug research. But the company can’t address every single use case alone, a limitation that it’s now looking …
Armed with $10M in new funding, IOVOX moves to unlock the world’s call data
Another promising startup has raised funding to unlock the valuable data lurking in business calls. London-based IOVOX Ltd. today announced that it has received $10 million from Silicon Valley Bank, SF Capital and a British fund called Octopus Ventures. The funding comes …
Samanage reels in $20M to change how companies support their users
There are numerous tools out there that promise to help companies streamline their internal support operations, but many of them hail from a time when on-premises software still ruled the workplace. Samanage Inc. has taken it upon itself to bring the industry …
DigitalOcean fills gap in its public cloud with new managed load balancing
With its public cloud on the verge of reaching a million users, DigitalOcean Inc. is ramping up feature development to ensure that new bookings keep coming down the pipe. The latest fruit of the provider’s efforts is a new load balancing mechanism designed …
HP’s new security software turns every browser tab into an isolated sandbox
HP Inc. may have exited the breach prevention market after splitting from its enterprise technology arm in 2015, but helping customers keep their personal computers secure remains a priority. The technology giant today unveiled a new piece of software called Sure Click …
Google launches new gateway for cloud application programming interfaces
As part of its campaign to provide greater freedom of choice in the public cloud, Google Inc. is giving customers a new option for managing the application programming interfaces they use to enable web services to communicate with one another. The search …
Docker debuts new security mechanism for application containers
One of the reasons behind the rapid adoption of containers is that the applications running inside them can be easily moved across different types of infrastructure, which simplifies a lot of administrative tasks. But this portability often has the opposite effect when …