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Helpshift Inc. raised a $23 million series B funding round for its in-app customer service technology , bringing total capital raised to $36.2 million. Participants in the new round include Microsoft Ventures Inc., Salesforce Ventures, and all previously existing investors, including Intel Capital …
#SparkSummit West 2016 preview: The power of 2.0
Spark Summit West kicks off in San Francisco today, and you can bet the buzz will be all about Spark 2.0. DataBricks Inc., the principal curator of Spark, was impeccable in its timing, announcing the successor to the current version 1.6 just …
ServiceNow extends growing security arm with BrightPoint buy
Cloud workflow powerhouse ServiceNow Inc. is wasting no time in expanding its footprint in its newest market: computer security. Barely three months after announcing the expansion of its platform into security operations, the company said it has acquired BrightPoint Security Inc. for …
Wikibon sees more big data projects moving cloud-ward
Big data projects are ready to move to the cloud on a large scale, but a host of concerns about regulations, ownership and the structural impediments of moving large amounts of data off-site will limit mass adoption of public cloud platforms, says …
SS8 brings law enforcement-style forensics to the enterprise
SS8 Networks Inc., a company whose clients until now have mainly been limited to telecommunications firms, intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, is bringing its breach detection technology to enterprises with a platform that uses a “time machine” approach to sniff out …
SignalFx spiffs up analytics-based monitor for complex systems
SignalFx Inc., a startup that claims to have a radical new approach to system monitoring in the age of containers and micro services, is enhancing its core platform with new features to better detect anomalies in complex infrastructure. The venture-backed company, which …
Colorado builds childcare-rating system on Salesforce.com – really
With more than 9,000 early childhood care and development facilities spread across the state, the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood has its hands full keeping track of the places and people responsible for the welfare of the state’s most vulnerable …
Lattice Engines says it knows when prospects are ready to buy
Predictive marketing software provider Lattice Engines Inc. is bidding for the hearts and minds of business-to-business marketers with a new platform that predicts whether prospects are ready to buy and when. It then routes that information to the appropriate sales representatives in seconds. …
CloudBolt automates cloud bursting
CloudBolt Software Inc. has added cloud bursting support to its virtual machine self-provisioning software, enabling customers to specify CPU thresholds at which workloads can automatically expand into public infrastructure-as-a-service without user intervention. Cloud bursting is simple in concept but difficult in execution. …
Why the future will be 3D printed
The next big breakthroughs in additive manufacturing – also called 3D printing – won’t be as showy as notable recent examples of printed houses and cars, but they will be no less dramatic in their impact. The process of taking ideas from …