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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 ...
ChaosSearch adds SQL support to deliver multicloud business intelligence
ChaosSearch Inc. is making its log analytics data platform more useful, creating what it says is the industry’s first true multimodel, multicloud data lake that enables fast, cost-effective log analytics and business intelligence at large scale. The platform gets a significant update with the ability to perform Structured Query Language queries on Amazon Web Services ...
VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform brings load balancing to Tanzu service mesh
VMware Inc. is trying to help companies that struggle to maintain hybrid cloud application connectivity with the launch of a new platform that combines its Tanzu Service Mesh product with its NSX Advanced Load Balancer. VMware’s Modern Apps Connectivity platform is designed to enable end-to-end application connectivity in any cloud environment, the company said today. ...
Chipmakers and big tech push for $50B funding for semiconductor R&D
Computer chip makers and some of their biggest customers joined forces today in an attempt to pressure the U.S. government to commit tens of billion dollars in funding toward semiconductor manufacturing and research. The Semiconductors in America Coalition’s members include international chipmakers such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...