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External data provider Explorium raises $75M in new funding
Data discovery startup Explorium Ltd. revealed today that it has landed $75 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to more than $127 million. Insight Partners led the Series C round, which included participation from existing investors Zeev Ventures, Emerge, F2 Capital, 01 Advisors and Dynamic Loop Capital. Explorium offers ...
HPE bets on Europe’s Gaia-X cloud and data services initiative
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is betting on the success of a new European initiative that’s aimed at creating a unified ecosystem of cloud and data services protected by European data laws. The company said today that its new HPE Solution Framework for Gaia-X is designed for companies, service providers and other organizations that want to ...
Amazon targets more cloud workloads with new Application Migration Service
Amazon Web Services Inc. is asking customers to switch to its newly launched AWS Application Migration Service for “lift-and-shift” application migrations to its cloud platform. The service, which went live today, makes it possible for companies to move their apps to the AWS cloud without first needing to make any changes to them, their architecture ...
Twilio buys business SMS text startup Zipwhip for $850M
Cloud communications firm Twilio Inc. is looking to boost its messaging capabilities when it closes on the $850 million acquisition of a company called Zipwhip Inc. that was announced today. Seattle-based Zipwhip enables U.S. companies to send free SMS text messages to their customers from landline phones, VoIP services and toll-free numbers. Users simply enable ...
IBM’s updated Accessibility Checker makes it easier to scan whole websites or apps for problems
IBM Corp. today updated its open-source Accessibility Checker with a new tool that developers can use to scan entire websites and applications quickly for any accessibility issues they need to fix. Enterprises have a moral and sometimes even a legal obligation to ensure that their digital assets are accessible to all users, but ensuring that ...
Facebook has created a way for AI, like people, to forget unimportant details it learns
Facebook Inc. is helping artificial intelligence systems use their memory more effectively by teaching them to forget unimportant memories that they don’t need to know. Teaching AI models stuff is easy. AI models are simply fed labeled dataset As they process the data, they remember everything within it, it’s pretty simple stuff. But teaching them ...
AWS powers new shot and save analytics for NHL’s Stanley Cup
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to help National Hockey League fans gain a better understanding of their favorite players’ and teams’ performances with two new analytics features that will make their debut in the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The company said today it’s leveraging its cloud-based data analytics, serverless compute and media services to deliver ...
AI life sciences software startup Axtria raises $150M
Life sciences software startup Axtria Inc. has reportedly been valued at close to $1 billion after picking up $150 million in a funding round led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Founded in 2010, Axtria provides cloud based data management and artificial intelligence software for companies in the life sciences industry, with the goal of helping ...
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne steps down, replaced by industry veteran Bill Staples
Observability platform provider New Relic Inc. caused a bit of a stir today with the sudden announcement that Chief Executive Officer Lew Cirne is stepping down, to be replaced by software industry veteran Bill Staples. The news came as New Relic delivered fourth-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue, though ...
PayPal expands its use of Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation
PayPal Holdings Inc. is betting on Google Cloud’s infrastructure to support its continued growth and will expand the use of that company’s services to accelerate its digital transformation plans. Google LLC said today it will provide PayPal with expanded cloud resources in order to help it process transactional data at massive scale. PayPal, which forged its ...
