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Qualified.com raises $95M to transform corporate websites into a sales generation tool
Salesforce pipeline generation platform provider Qualified.com Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $95 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $163 million. The Series C round was led by Sapphire with significant participation from Tiger Global. The likes of Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Salesforce Ventures ...
Bug bounty platform Intigriti raises $23M to empower ethical hackers
Belgium-based bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform Intigriti NV said today it has raised €21.1 million ($23 million) in a new round of funding. The Series B round, which was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from EnBW New Ventures and ETF Partners, is said to be the largest raise to date for a European ...
Pentagon hires Lyft machine learning expert Craig Martell as its first chief digital and AI officer
The Department of Defense today announced that the Pentagon has hired Lyft Inc. head of machine learning Craig Martell as its first-ever chief digital and artificial intelligence officer. Martell will head up the DOD’s Chief Digital and AI Office, which was created in December in order to centralize oversight of its data and AI initiatives ...
Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB
Akamai Technologies Inc. is accelerating its evolution to support developers with the launch today of a new managed database service powered by Linode. The new offering supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB databases and is designed to simplify database deployment and management for developers, helping them to reduce risk, increase efficiency and minimize complexity, Akamai ...
EU’s Digital Services Act will force big tech firms to police the internet
Big tech firms such as Google LLC, Twitter Inc. and Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will be required to do more to tackle illegal content or face being slapped with multibillion-euro fines under new European Union rules agreed to Saturday. The Digital Services Act is a wide-ranging regulatory act that aims to make the ...
Kraft Heinz to work with Microsoft on digital twins and supply chain efficiencies
Food manufacturing firm Kraft Heinz Co. said today it is partnering with Microsoft Corp. with an eye to improving its supply chain visibility and day-to-day operations. Under the alliance, Kraft Heinz will adopt various cloud, artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies to advance its digital transformation strategy. The companies have signed a multiyear deal that will ...
Andreessen Horowitz creates crypto research lab to solve problems around Web3
The renowned venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is stepping up its already considerable bet on the blockchain business with the creation of its own dedicated crypto research team. In a blog post today, a16z partners Ali Yahya and Chris Dixon said a16z crypto research is a new kind of “multidisciplinary lab” that will work closely with its ...
Qualtrics tops revenue estimates and its stock rises
Qualtrics International Inc.‘s stock rose more than 4% in extended trading today after the company posted strong fiscal first-quarter revenue that topped expectations, adding strong guidance for the next quarter as well. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $292.3 million, or 51 cents a share, and a loss before certain costs ...
Amazon launches AWS IoT TwinMaker to bring digital twins into the mainstream
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of a new service that enables companies to create digital twins of physical assets such as buildings, factories, products and production line equipment. With AWS IoT TwinMaker, companies can create digital twins and update them regularly with real-world data to mimic the systems they represent. They ...
Speechmatics adds entity formatting to improve its speech recognition software
U.K.-based startup Speechmatics said today it’s taking a big step in advancing speech recognition with the addition of “entity formatting” to its Autonomous Speech Recognition software. The startup, officially named Cantab Research Ltd., says it’s tackling one of the major challenges in machine learning today, which involves interpreting spoken numbers, currencies, percentages, addresses, dates and time ...
