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Data science startup Dataiku raises $101M in Series C round
Big-data startup Dataiku Inc. has just raised a hefty $101 million in a round of funding announced Wednesday. The Series C round was led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from Alven Capital, Battery Ventures, Dawn Capital and FirstMark Capital. It brings its total funding to date just north of $146 million. Not everyone has heard ...
Report: Microsoft ponders acquisition of networking firm Mellanox
Microsoft Corp. could be set to make one of the earliest tech acquisitions in the New Year, according to a report that suggests it’s interested in buying up Israeli networking company Mellanox Technologies Ltd. The report Wednesday by the Hebrew-language publication TheMarker say Microsoft has hired the services of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to negotiate on its ...
3M buys M*Modal’s healthcare-focused conversational AI assistant tech
Specialized healthcare software provider 3M Co. has bought itself an early Christmas present, M*Modal IP LLC’s medical technology business, for a “total enterprise value” of $1 billion. 3M said the acquisition, announced today, is intended to boost its own health information systems business by adding M*Modal’s artificial intelligence-based conversational software for physicians to its portfolio of products. ...
SoftBank pumps $500M into driving data analytics firm Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc., which uses smartphone data in order to analyze the behavior of drivers on the road, today became the latest beneficiary of SoftBank Corp’s $100 billion Vision Fund. The eight-year-old startup, which was born out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, landed a hefty $500 million in ...
Facebook’s Oculus open-sources DeepFocus code for more realistic VR images
Facebook Inc.’s Oculus virtual reality team today open-sourced the code behind its DeepFocus software that’s used to create more realistic visuals for VR headsets. The DeepFocus software first came to public attention in May, when Oculus showed off a new prototype VR headset called Half Dome. The prototype headset featured a “varifocal” display that moves ...
Google is letting non-account holders view and edit documents in G Suite
Google LLC is testing a new feature for G Suite that lets users send invites to people without a Google account and allow them to interact with Google documents. G Suite, Google’s productivity suite that comes with commercial versions of services including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Sites and Slides, is a rival to Microsoft Corp.’s more ...
SAP updates its enterprise information management tools
Enterprise software giant SAP SE today added a bunch of new capabilities to its Enterprise Information Management suite in order to help to reduce the complexity associated with managing company data. The updated products include SAP’s Master Data Governance offering for SAP S/4HANA 1809, which provides a central location to create, change, distribute or consolidate ...
Arm announces new Cortex chip to boost safety in autonomous cars
Arm Holdings Ltd. is upping its bid to become a major player in the world of connected and autonomous vehicles with the launch of a new microprocessor chip designed to handle multiple streams of data. The new Arm Cortex-A65AE chip, which will become available in 2020, adds to the company’s Automotive Enhanced portfolio of chips. ...
Packet provides more oomph for IoT deployments at the network edge
Bare-metal server infrastructure company Packet Hosting Inc. today said it’s forging a partnership with a networking company called Netronome Systems Inc. on a hardware platform designed to power cloud-native workloads at the network edge. Packet is an interesting startup that’s gaining attention with enterprises for its developer-friendly hosting service that provides highly customizable infrastructure for ...
AI brain builder Neurala automates video annotation to speed up deep learning
Artificial intelligence software company Neurala Inc. is boosting its Brain Builder deep learning platform with a new automated video annotation tool it says can significantly speed up the time it takes to prepare data used to create neural networks. Neurala has gained lots of attention in recent months with its AI platform, which attempts to mimic the ...