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Cisco buys Dashbase to brings logs and events analytics to AppDynamics
Cisco Systems Inc. announced today it will acquire events and logs analytics startup Dashbase Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Dashbase, whose software is used by enterprises to pull in log data from various real-time communications environments, will help bolster Cisco’s AppDynamics platform. AppDynamics is an application monitoring platform that has become central to Cisco’s push in ...
VergeSense raises $12M to help companies create safer and more productive offices
Workplace analytics provider VergeSense Inc. said today it has closed on a $12 million round of funding as it bids to help companies get back to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tola Capital led the Series B round, which brings VergeSense’s total funding to $22.6 million, following previous investments by JLL Spark, Allegion Ventures, MetaProp, ...
Verizon teams up with Deloitte on 5G mobile edge infrastructure
Verizon Communications Inc. subsidiary Verizon Business said today it’s teaming up with the professional services consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to offer 5G and mobile edge computing services to the manufacturing and retail industries. The plan is to combine Verizon’s mobile and private wireless networks and 5G Edge Multi-Access Edge Computing platform and its software-defined ...
SoftBank launches its first special-purpose acquisition company
As expected, SoftBank Group filed to launch a special-purpose acquisition company today, saying it plans to raise $525 million to invest in an unnamed technology company. The Japanese investment giant, which is known for backing promising technology startups, said the new company is called SVF Investment. Rajeev Misra, who leads SoftBank’s investment unit and its ...
Report: Apple aims to get its self-driving car on the road by 2024
Apple Inc. is aiming to produce an electric car by 2024 and it may feature a “breakthrough” battery design that makes it cheaper to run and gives it longer range that existing vehicles of its type. That’s according to an exclusive report in Reuters today, which said Apple is secretly developing a lithium iron phosphate ...
Mimik and IBM team up to make edge computing resources more accessible
Edge computing startup mimik Technology Inc. is collaborating with IBM Corp. to create edge-based computing resources that it says will help to accelerate automation and digital transformation in healthcare, manufacturing, retail and other industries. In its pitch announced today, mimik said the growth of trends such as the “internet of things” and 5G has resulted ...
Report: SoftBank to create its first special-purpose acquisition company
SoftBank Group Corp. is preparing to raise between $500 million and $600 million via an initial public offering of its first special-purpose acquisition company, Axios reported late Sunday, citing multiple sources. The investment giant, which is known for backing promising technology startups, is said to be prepping for at least two additional SPACs, which are ...
Nvidia gets its own AI store in the AWS Marketplace
Nvidia Corp. is getting its own storefront in Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Marketplace. Under an announcement today, customers will be able to download directly more than 20 of Nvidia’s NGC software resources to speed up their artificial intelligence deployments in healthcare, robotics, data science and other projects. Nvidia NGC is a catalog of graphics ...
IBM and Salesforce team up to help verify workers’ vaccination status
With COVID-19 vaccination programs finally kicking off in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are teaming up to provide a secure way for people to verify their health status so they can get back to work safely. The companies said today they’re integrating IBM’s Digital Health Pass with Salesforce’s ...
Process automation startup UiPath files for IPO expected in the first half of 2021
Fast-growing robotic process automation startup UiPath Inc. is setting its sights on Wall Street after filing confidential paperwork for an initial public offering that will likely come in the first half of 2021. UiPath hasn’t yet determined a price for the offering, but Bloomberg, which first reported the news today, speculated it could put the company’s ...