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StreamNative launches cloud-native Kafka service built on Apache Pulsar
Cloud-native messaging and streaming platform provider StreamNative Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to migrate from the Apache Kafka event streaming platform to Apache Pulsar with the launch of StreamNative Cloud for Kafka in beta test mode today. StreamNative Cloud for Kafka is a streaming data platform that supports the Kafka protocol, though it runs ...
Amazon releases ‘MASSIVE’ database to scale up natural language understanding
Amazon.com Inc. today announced the release of a massive new dataset, appropriately called “MASSIVE,” which it says can be used to build virtual assistants that support some of the world’s most obscure languages. Alongside the database Amazon has also released open-source modeling code to help developers build more capable virtual assistants. The MASSIVE database is ...
Spanish startup Nuclia gets $5.4M to advance unstructured data search
Artificial intelligence-powered search startup Nuclia said today it has raised $5.4 million in a seed funding round led by Crane Venture Partners and Ealai. The round will enable the company to build upon the launch of its open-source and cloud-native database NucliaDB. Officially called Bosutech S.L., Nuclia also announced the public availability of its application programming ...
Amazon launches first AWS Impact Accelerator for Black founders
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s committing $30 million over the next three years to back early-stage startups led by Blacks, Latinos, women founders and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community. The commitment is part of the company’s new series of AWS Impact Accelerators. AWS will provide funding ...
Encore raises $3M to automate backend development for distributed cloud systems
Swedish startup Encoretivity AB is making waves today after raising $3 million in seed funding to build out what it says is the first back-end development engine that enables developers to build scalable, distributed systems rapidly in the cloud. Today’s round was led by Crane Venture Partners and included participation from Acequia Capital, Essence Venture ...
Enso exits stealth with $16.5M funding to help everyone do complex data analysis
Enso is exiting stealth mode today on a mission to democratize data analysis and help business users to run complex analytics processes without relying on experienced data scientists. The startup said today it has raised $16.5 million in funding from investors including SignalFire, Khosla Ventures, Day One Ventures, Decacorn Capital, Y Combinator, Samsung Next, Harvard’s ...
Google Cloud’s BigQuery gains an Automatic Data Loss Prevention feature
Google Cloud said today it’s enabling Automatic Data Loss Prevention in Google BigQuery to help users find, classify and protect sensitive information that may have inadvertently been scattered around their cloud deployments. In a blog post, Google Cloud Product Manager Scott Ellis explained that sensitive data has a knack for appearing in all kinds of ...
Samsung leapfrogs Intel as world’s No. 1 chipmaker
Ongoing shortages in the semiconductor industry helped chipmakers’ revenue jump by more than 26% last year, hitting $595 billion. Today’s report from Gartner Inc. also reveals the impact of U.S. sanctions on China, which saw its market share fall dramatically. It no longer has a single chip manufacturer that ranks in the top 10 list. ...
Uniphore acquires AI-powered knowledge automation provider Colabo
Call center intelligence firm Uniphore Technologies Inc. has wasted no time in putting its recent $400 million funding round to work, announcing today that it has acquired a startup called Colabo Inc. In doing so, it gets its hands on an artificial intelligence-powered knowledge automation tool that can extract and use information from both structured ...
Choco raises $111M to eliminate food industry waste through streamlined ordering
Berlin-based startup Choco Communications GmbH said today it has raised $111 million in a new round of funding to help it take on the growing problem of food waste. The Series B2 round is an extension of the company’s $100 million Series B round last year, and was led by G Squared and Insight Partners. ...
