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When Australian entrepreneurs James Davies and Matt Fairhurst (above) founded Skedulo Pty Ltd. in 2013, they set out to achieve an ambitious goal: Make it easy for large companies to manage the legions of mobile workers who support their field operations. Three years …
Microsoft intros new chatbot service, partnerships with Elon Musk-backed OpenAI
Chatbots will take center stage at Microsoft Corp.’s Connect(); developer conference in New York this week. Harry Shum, the head of the company’s artificial intelligence group, laid the groundwork for the event today by announcing a new cloud tool designed to speed up …
Salesforce.com gives its Trailhead learning service a LinkedIn-style makeover
Almost every enterprise tech company runs some sort of training program to help users familiarize themselves with its products, but few appear to put as much thought into it as Salesforce.com Inc. has. The cloud giant operates a learning portal called Trailhead …
Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination
Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn’t have to mean they should be constantly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention …
Logz.io’s AI-powered IT analytics platform attracts $16M funding
There are numerous cloud-based analytics tools out there that offer to help information technology administrators make better sense of their system data, but Logz.io Inc. is probably the only one that relies on the online programmer community Stack Overflow to do it. …
App testing startup Sauce Labs lands massive $70M round
A year and a half after securing its last funding round, Sauce Labs Inc. has raised a mammoth $70 million investment from a trio of private equity firms. The biggest name on the list is Institutional Venture Partners, one of the oldest …
GE acquires field operations specialist ServiceMax for $915M
Two months after forming a new division to widen the adoption of cloud computing and analytics in the industrial world, General Electric Co. is acquiring ServiceMax Inc. for $915 million to fast-track its efforts. The deal buys the company one of the …
New Cray supercomputer offers petaflop computing power in one cabinet
More than 30 years after selling its first supercomputer, Cray Inc. continues to push the envelope on processing power. The company unveiled a new data crunching system at the SC16 computing event in Utah today that is the first of its kind …
Forward Networks exits stealth with math-based approach to fighting network issues
Three years after banding together to take on the data center market, David Erickson and his team of Stanford Ph.D.s at Forward Networks Inc. are finally ready to reveal what they’ve been working on. The startup is emerging from stealth today with …
IBM and Nvidia launch PowerAI, a hardware-optimized deep learning toolkit
IBM Corp. and Nvidia Corp. today revealed the next step in their plan to capitalize on the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. At the annual SC16 supercomputing conference today, the companies are showcasing a jointly developed toolkit dubbed PowerAI that contains custom …