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New TPG investment values cybersecurity firm Tanium at $5 billion
Cybersecurity firm Tanium Inc. is now valued at a mammoth $5 billion following its latest cash infusion from the investment firm TPG, which has just pumped another $175 million into the company, Reuters reported today. Somewhat unusually for a round of this size, the money won’t be going directly into the company’s coffers, but will instead ...
With new training academy, LinkedIn aims to overcome AI skills shortage
As artificial intelligence evolves to become a key component of most new software technologies, LinkedIn Corp. is hoping to address a growing problem facing many enterprises looking to extend their footprint in this area: the shortage of skilled workers. In a blog post today, Craig Martell, LinkedIn’s head of science and engineering, said AI is ...
Rackspace joins the Kubernetes party with its own managed container offering
Managed cloud computing specialist Rackspace Inc. is offering up its expertise to help enterprises get up and running with software containers. The company today announced a new offering called Rackspace Kubernetes-as-a-Service, based on the popular software that’s used to manage deployments of multiple software containers. Rackspace believes it’s entering the market at just the right ...
In-memory database company MemSQL lands $30M in late-stage funding round
MemSQL Inc., the developer of a real-time in-memory distributed database, said Tuesday that it has closed on a $30 million late-stage round of funding. The Series D round was led by GV, formerly Google Ventures, which is the venture capital investment arm of Google Inc.’s parent company Alphabet Inc. Glynn Capital and existing investors Accell, Caffeinated Capital, ...
Amazon serves up a simplified Ethereum blockchain platform on its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. is at last getting itself into the blockchain game, teaming up with the Ethereum design studio ConsenSys Inc. on a new platform that aims to make it easier for enterprises to implement the technology. Amazon and ConsenSys said the Kaleido Blockchain Business Cloud is an “all-in-one blockchain platform aimed at speeding ...
Periscope Data’s new ‘drag-and-drop’ interface makes it easier to visualize data
Data analytics software provider Periscope Data Inc. today updated its flagship Unified Data Platform with new visualization capabilities that make it possible for those without technical skills to navigate and make use of company data sets. The idea is to make information more accessible to ordinary business employees who lack the ability to query data using ...
Verizon hops aboard the Amazon Web Services cloud train
Wireless network operator Verizon Communications Inc. has become the latest big enterprise to move a large chunk of its business applications to Amazon Web Services Inc., choosing the company as its “preferred public cloud provider.” Verizon, which been working with AWS since 2015, said it’s planning to migrate more than 1,000 business-critical applications and database ...
To speed up machine learning, Google’s DeepMind simulates the effect of dopamine on the human brain
Artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning algorithms have shown their ability to outperform real people in all manner of tasks, including classifying images and playing classic board games such as chess and Go. But despite those impressive achievements, deep learning systems still struggle to compete with humans when it comes to the speed at ...
Filament brings blockchain capabilities to existing IoT devices
Startup Filament is adding another layer of abstraction and utility to the blockchain with a new plug-and-play hardware device that allows “internet of things” devices to access the distributed digital ledger technology. The company, which builds a variety of blockchain-based hardware and software products, is touting a new USB device it said can enable existing ...
Dropbox beats forecasts in its first earnings report since IPO
Dropbox Inc. today posted solid quarterly results in its first earnings report since the launch of its initial public offering in March. The file storage company beat out Wall Street’s expectations for its first quarter, reporting earnings after certain costs such as stock compensation of 4 cents per share on revenue of $316.3 million, up 28 ...