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Managed detection and response startup Critical Start lands $215M in funding
Cybersecurity firm Critical Start Inc., which sells a managed detection and response solution to enterprises, said today it has closed on a bumper $215 million strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners. Critical Start’s managed detection and response or MDR offering is designed to help simplify breach prevention in enterprises. It does this by helping organizations ...
KeepTruckin rebrands as Motive as it shifts focus to automated operations
The fleet management software company KeepTruckin Inc. is reinventing itself as an “internet of things”-based automation company and rebranding itself as “Motive” to better reflect the fact it’s no longer focused solely on the trucking industry. The company began life with its smartphone apps for truck drivers and electronic logging devices that track their compliance with ...
Axis Security debuts cloud-native Security Service Edge platform
Axis Security Ltd. said today it’s reinventing security for modern workforces with the debut of a new platform that will give companies a viable alternative to older hub-and-spoke network architectures. The Atmos platform is also superior to existing Security Service Edge platforms built on data center-based architectures, according to Axis. The idea is to help ...
Observe.ai lands $125M in funding for its intelligent call center software
The intelligent contact center software provider Z21 Labs Inc., which does business as Observe.ai, announced today it has raised $125 million in a new round of funding. The Series C round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund and saw participation from Zoom Video Communications Inc., plus existing investors Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Nexus ...
PC shipments slow for first time since COVID-19 outbreak emerged
After two years of pandemic-fueled, double-digit growth, shipments of personal computers fell by more than 5% in the first quarter of this year from the same period a year ago. However, International Data Corp. said in its report released today that although the decline is a reflection of both higher costs and market saturation in some ...
Oracle-backed server chip startup Ampere files for IPO
Ampere Computing LLC, an Arm-based computer chip manufacturer heavily backed by Oracle Corp., said today it has filed plans for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The move has sparked widespread speculation about Ampere’s valuation, a key factor in the upcoming IPO. Ampere, which is led by the former Intel Corp. ...
Google’s new ‘multisearch’ feature enables users to search with both images and words
Google LLC said today it has added a new “multisearch” capability to Google Lens, enabling users to search for answers using a combination of images and text. Google Lens, the company’s image recognition technology, allows users to point the phone camera or snap a photo and search Google for answers relating to that image. With ...
NetApp buys open-source database-as-a-service player Instaclustr
Data storage giant NetApp Inc. said today it’s expanding into the platform-as-a-service business after acquiring the open-source database startup Instaclustr Pty. Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Instaclustr delivers fully managed versions of the most popular open-source databases to enterprises that don’t want to manage the software themselves. Its “open-source-as-a-service” platform provides hosting and support for ...
Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4%
The respected analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today in its latest forecast that worldwide information technology is expected to top $4.4 trillion in 2022, rising by 4% from the year before. Gartner Distinguished Research Vice President John-David Lovelock said 2022 is already proving to be one of the “noisiest years on record” for chief information ...
OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator creates fantastic images from text-based descriptions
The artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI Inc. today released an updated version of its text-to-image generation model DALL-E, with higher resolution and lower latency than the original system. DALL-E 2, like the original DALL-E, can produce pictures, such as the image above, from written descriptions and comes with a few new capabilities, such as being able ...