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Applause launches application testing platform with expert community
Crowdsourced testing solutions company Applause App Quality Inc. today announced the launch of its Product Excellent Platform to provide customers access to enterprise-grade software-as-a-service infrastructure, digital testing solutions and access to the world’s largest community of digital experts. With PEP, Applause intends to provide customers and brands the capability of finding bugs in software before ...
Lacework announces new leadership hires, tapping David ‘Hat’ Hatfield as CEO
Lacework Inc., a security and compliance platform for cloud generation, today announced an expansion of its leadership team that includes key executive hires, including the surprise appointment of David “Hat” Hatfield as chief executive. Other hires in addition to Hatfield (pictured) include former Chief Executive Dan Hubbard, who will become Lacework’s chief product officer; security ...
CircleCI releases ‘private orbs’ to enhance security for DevOps teams
Continuous integration and delivery platform for DevOps teams Circle Internet Services Inc. today announced the release of new secure and private configuration options known as “private orbs,” which are reusable packages that automate repeated processes. CircleCI uses orbs across its entire framework to provide automated project setup for more than 10,000 unique organizations on a ...
Edgybees raises $9.5M in new funding for lifesaving augmented aerial video
Edgybees Ltd., a provider of real-time high-precision geotagging and visual augmentation of aerial video, today announced it closed $9.5 million in Series A funding led by Seraphim Capital. Edgybees uses its augmented vision capability for defense, public safety and critical infrastructure command centers that depend on aerial video to make lifesaving decisions in real time ...
Bitcoin wallet Blockchain.com raises $120M in funding
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet Blockchain.com today announced it has raised $120 million. The “strategic” funding round was led by Moore Strategic Ventures LLC, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, venture capital firms Access Industries Inc., Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital unit GV. The company will use the money to continue to expand its ...
Filecoin’s decentralized storage reaches 2.5 billion gigabytes in capacity
Filecoin, the world’s largest distributed blockchain storage network, announced today that its global community has exceeded 2.5 billion gigabytes of storage capacity within its network. This capacity could also be written as 2.5 exabytes and represents enough data on Filecoin to store 725 million 1080p movies, 4,500 copies of Wikipedia and 47 copies of the ...
Microsoft close to unveiling preview of web-based xCloud for iPads and iPhones
Microsoft Corp. is close to revealing a preview of its xCloud game streaming service that will allow users to play on their Apple mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones, according to a report today from The Verge. According to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, employees are now testing a web-based version of the streaming service ...
Facebook report reveals how it uses AI to fight harassment, hate speech
Facebook Inc. today outlined its escalating efforts, partly using improved artificial intelligence techniques, to prevent hate speech, bullying, harassment, and violent and graphic content on its platform. The social network giant this morning released its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report covering the fourth quarter of 2020, including metrics from October through December for Facebook and ...
Amazon reportedly planning a wall-mounted Echo device for smart homes
Amazon.com Inc. is working on a wall-mounted Echo device that will act as a command-and-control center for smart homes, according to a report published by Bloomberg today. The device, developed and designed by the company’s Lab126 hardware division, would be a digital command center capable of controlling lights, locks, music, temperature and other elements of ...
WPVIP acquires Parse.ly to give WordPress customers better content analytics
WordPress VIP, a WordPress hosting provider for enterprise business and one of Automattic Inc.’s services, today announced the acquisition of Parse.ly, a an analytics and optimization solution designed for content management and e-commerce platforms. WPVIP hopes to put Parse.ly’s expertise in analytics to use for its customers to offer better insights to understand the impact ...