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Twitter adds a new enterprise software link for chatbots and customer service
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday announced it’s making an enterprise version of its Account Activity application programming interface available to software developers. The new API will allow developers to build more sophisticated applications for businesses that want to engage with customers through chatbots, direct messages and other methods. More specifically, the enterprise Account Activity API is for ...
DocuSign acquires Appuri for its machine learning expertise
E-signature and digital transaction company DocuSign Inc. today agreed a deal to buy the technology assets and hire most of the staff from a machine learning startup called Appuri Inc. The terms of the deal, which will see DocuSign obtain rights to Appuri’s source code, were not disclosed. The company had raised a total of $6.5 ...
Google has built a machine learning model that can decide if images are pleasing to the human eye
Researchers at Google LLC are taking image recognition to the next level with an experimental machine learning model that can rank photos according to their aesthetic appeal. The new model, called Neural Image Assessment, is designed to assess which images humans are most likely to find aesthetically pleasing. This is quite different to existing models, ...
HyTrust touts new data discovery tool to secure virtualized environments
Cloud computing security firm HyTrust Inc. is bolstering its portfolio with a new offering that enables enterprises to identify their most sensitive data and put safeguards in place to ensure it’s protected. The company said its new CloudAdvisor product is designed to “proactively identify risks to sensitive data” and also protect it from “inadvertent exposure, ...
Maana lands $28M funding to go after industrial data analytics
Maana Inc. today said it has raised a $28 million late-stage funding round to expand its effort to win the data analytics market for the oil and gas industry. New investors China International Capital Corp., Eight Square Capital, Accenture Ventures and Sino Capital led the round, which also saw participation from existing investors Intel Capital, GE ...
Amazon Web Services opens its first cloud region in France
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services Inc. is wrapping up a busy end of year with the opening of a new region in France. The AWS EU (Paris) Region is the company’s fourth region in Europe, alongside existing regions in Germany, Ireland and the U.K. The decision to open a French region was taken in ...
Bloomberg open-sources PowerfulSeal, a new tool for testing Kubernetes clusters
Bloomberg L.P. is best known for the technology it reports on, but recent innovations in enterprise information technology have prompted the financial software and media organization to get its hands dirty, so to speak. The company has open-sourced a new tool that allows system engineers to test and monitor their Kubernetes container orchestration systems. Bloomberg described ...
French aerospace contractor Thales buys digital security firm Gemalto for $5.6B
French aerospace contractor Thales Group Sunday said it will acquire the digital security startup Gemalto NV in an all-cash deal worth $5.6 billion. The move comes just days after information technology services firm Atos Corp. saw a $5.1 billion offer for the company rejected. The offer, which has been unanimously approved by Gemalto’s board of directors, is a 57 percent ...
Xen Project updates its hypervisor with security and UI improvements
The Xen Project has just updated its open-source hypervisor to version 4.10, with new security features and improvements to its underlying code and user interface. The updated platform, which is used by numerous public cloud providers and is also the base for many commercial virtualization products, also integrated ARM-based hardware for the first time. The ...
28% of enterprises are assessing blockchain, but almost no one’s using it
Interest in blockchain technology is growing among enterprises, but adoption is still nascent, with just 3 percent of businesses actually using it in production this year. That’s according to 451 Research Inc.’s new Blockchain Codex 2017 report, published Thursday, which takes a look at some of the ways in which the technology is being explored ...