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Startup CrowdAI Inc. announced the official launch of its artificial intelligence-based customized VisionAI platform today alongside a $6.25 million round of funding. Threshold Ventures led the Series A round, together with participation from Susa Ventures, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Jerry Yang at …
Automated development environment startup Gitpod raises $13M
Open-source developer platform startup Gitpod GmbH said today it has raised $13 million in funding and made several updates to its platform that are aimed at accelerating software development in the cloud. The round, led by General Catalyst, will be used to …
Business messaging platform Gupshup raises $100M
Conversational messaging platform Gupshup, which is owned and operated by Webaroo Inc., said today it has raised $100 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion. The funding comes from Tiger Global Management, and Gupshup said it will soon …
Gartner: Digital transformation will drive even more tech spending
Enterprise executives will spend big on digital transformation this year, and that will help to drive overall global information technology spending by 8.4%, to $4.1 trillion, by the end of 2021. That’s according to a new update from research firm Gartner Inc. …
Okta debuts privileged access and identity governance tools to expand market reach
Cloud identity management firm Okta Inc. is building on the launch of its revamped developer experience earlier this week with the planned release of new products that will help it significantly expand its market opportunity. It’s also partnering with the content delivery …
VMware Carbon Black expands container security through the entire CI/CD lifecycle
Software virtualization giant VMware Inc. is expanding its container and Kubernetes security capabilities with a key update to its VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload offering announced today. The update, the company said, will increase visibility for containerized applications throughout the development lifecycle, …
IBM Cloud for Financial Services now generally available with expanded partner ecosystem
IBM Corp. hit a key milestone today when it announced that the world’s first financial services-ready public cloud is now ready for prime time. The company has been working on IBM Cloud for Financial Services for a long time. The offering was …
Microsoft is using boiling liquid to cool one of its Azure data centers
Microsoft Corp. revealed today that it has been experimenting with what it calls a “two-phase immersion cooling technology” using a liquid that boils at extremely low temperatures to keep its data centers cool. The company explained in a post today on its …
Google open-sources Lyra codec for high-quality voice calls with very low bandwidth
Google LLC said today it has open-sourced a codec called Lyra that relies on machine learning to enable high-quality voice calls in low bandwidth situations. Lyra, which is now hosted on GitHub, can compress audio down to as little as 3 kilobits …
Cisco, Dell and Lenovo debut new servers based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors
Data center infrastructure providers Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. all announced refreshed server lineups today that feature Intel Corp.’s new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new Intel chips launched today are based on an improved …