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The likes of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. actively encourage the public to report security flaws in their services with the promise of financial reward, but a payout alone isn’t sufficient to make a bug bounty program successful. Equally important is the ability …
Takipi bags $15M to help DevOps teams catch their mistakes faster
Out of all the tiresome and time-consuming chores involved in application development, troubleshooting bugs is perhaps the most tedious. And the more complicated a project is, the harder it can be to identify the cause of an issue. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo …
What you missed in Big Data: The chatbots are taking over
Among all the novel new applications of analytics that are making rounds in the enterprise these days, few are generating more buzz than chatbots. Last week saw Facebook Inc. add fuel to the fire by introducing a new machine learning tool aimed …
What you missed in Cloud: Big wins all around
Despite the continuing decline in venture capital spending, several cloud startups managed to buck the trend last week and secure the funding necessary for their growth plans. Among them was CloudEndure Ltd., which raised $6.2 million from a duo of unnamed ”global …
DigitalOcean takes out a $130M credit line to scale its public cloud globally
Running a public cloud isn’t cheap, especially if the goal is to provide a similar level of service as Amazon Inc. and the other web giants that dominate the infrastructure-as-a-service market. To try and level the playing field somewhat, DigitalOcean Inc. this …
Azure Media Analytics lets enterprises tap their video feeds and user content
Microsoft Corp. wants to help organizations get as much use out of their video assets as the rest of their unstructured data with a new set of cloud services for processing visual content that rolled out today. Azure Media Analytics provides tools …
Google’s AI engine, TensorFlow, can now scale across thousands of machines
Five months after its initial release, TensorFlow may finally start finding use in large-scale artificial intelligence projects. The credit goes to the new iteration of the framework that Google rolled out yesterday, which introduces the ability to scale algorithms across hundreds and …
DigitalGenius raises $4.1M for its customer service bot
The competition in the customer service automation space kicked up another notch today after DigitalGenius Inc. announced that it’s secured $4.1 million in funding from a group of nine institutional investors. According to the startup, the cash will be spent on trying …
Nexthink lands $40M to harness machine learning in the fight against hackers
The rapid increase in the number of attacks against corporate networks is creating a lot of new business for security startups like Nexthink SA, which snagged $40 million from investors today to try and increase its momentum even further. The capital will be …
CloudEndure raises another $6M for its managed disaster recovery service
As more organizations back up their workloads to the public cloud, the venture capital community is widening its efforts to monetize the trend. The latest beneficiary of the push is a disaster recovery startup called CloudEndure Ltd. that today revealed it’s raised …