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Google Cloud is coming to Mexico with new region
Google Cloud today announced plans to open a new cloud infrastructure region in Mexico. When the region goes online, it will become the company’s third in Latin America, alongside Santiago in Chile and Sao Paulo in Brazil, joining the 34 it operates globally. Google Cloud’s regions are specific geographic locations where it provides the infrastructure ...
15Five gets $52M in funding to grow its continuous performance management platform
The self-styled continuous performance management startup 15Five Inc. said today it has landed $52 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $94.1 million. Today’s Series C round was led by Quad Partners and saw the participation of a string of existing investors, including Next47, Origin Ventures, Matrix ...
Clarifai’s new community service aims to promote AI sharing and collaboration
The unstructured data-focused artificial intelligence startup Clarifai Inc. said today it’s launching Clarifai Community, a free service aimed at promoting collaboration and sharing in AI. Clarifai is a well-funded startup that has hit upon the somewhat novel idea of helping companies use massive volumes of unstructured and unlabeled data to train AI models. The company ...
Despite strong revenue growth, Qualtrics posts an unexpected loss and its stock dives
Experience management software firm Qualtrics International Inc. saw its stock fall in extended trading today after reporting a second-quarter loss that came below expectations. The company reported a net loss of $279.2 million for the quarter, resulting in a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of four cents per share. Revenue jumped by ...
Pecan AI can now automate the deployment and monitoring of predictive AI models
Predictive analytics startup Pecan AI Ltd. said today it’s bringing one-click model deployment and integration to common customer relationship platforms, marketing automation tools and other business systems. By doing so, it promises to make life much easier for business teams to take action on accurate predictions about future churn, demand and other customer conversion metrics ...
Diwo debuts with AI-powered decision-making platform
Business intelligence startup Diwo Inc. today launched its flagship Decision Intelligence Platform, providing business users with access to artificial intelligence-powered recommendations in order to solve the “last mile” challenge of data analytics. Diwo has created a next-generation business intelligence platform that aims to transform the decision-making process. Although enterprises have an array of BI tools at ...
Microsoft announces Update Management Center in public preview
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s rolling out a public preview of Update Management Center, a new tool aimed at system administrators tasked with performing multiple updates of Windows- and Linux-based servers. Known as UMC for short, it’s the latest iteration of an existing offering known as Azure Automation Update Management, which is a handy, if ...
At Inspire, Microsoft leverages AI to move into the crowded contact-center market
In one of the biggest announcements to come out of Inspire 2022 today, Microsoft Corp. has said it’s taking on rivals including Google LLC, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Zoom Video Communications Inc. in the contact center business. The new Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform is a comprehensive contact center offering that looks to be ...
Microsoft boosts hybrid workforces with new additions to Teams, Windows 365 and Viva
Microsoft Corp. took the opportunity at its Inspire 2022 event today to announce a raft of new features for Microsoft 365 offerings, including Teams, Windows 365 and Viva, its new employee experience platform. In a blog post, Colette Stallbaumer, Microsoft’s general manager of Microsoft 365 and Future of Work, said the motivation for many of ...
Microsoft exhorts its partner community to seize cloud growth opportunity
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s updating its Azure Migration and Modernization Program and launching a new ISV Success Program to help its partner community take advantage of trends around digital transformation. At Inspire 2022, its partner conference, the company explained that digital transformation is accelerating because the cloud has become a catalyst for new innovation, ...