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Sofy eases visual element testing in mobile app development
Quantyzd Inc. a maker of a scriptless automation platform for mobile app testing that does business as Sofy.ai, today introduced new features that it said eliminate the challenges of testing visual elements in mobile software applications. Visual Match augments the company’s core testing platform by allowing testers to fine-tune click targets during testing, addressing what ...
Robin AI’s legal copilot gets $26M venture infusion
Robin AI Ltd., the developer of an artificial intelligence “copilot” for creating and reviewing legal contracts, today said it has raised $26 million in a new funding round, bringing its total funding to nearly $43 million. The Series B round comes just 10 months after its previous $10.5 million Series A round. The UK-based firm ...
Business services giant realizes outsized cost savings by moving to the cloud
Conventional wisdom says the wrong reason to migrate to the cloud is to save money, with cost reductions typically topping out at no more than 15%. Don’t tell that to Cintas Corp., though. The $8.8 billion maker of uniforms, cleaning supplies, safety equipment and other business services recently migrated its suite of more than 200 ...
Tembo raises $7M to make Postgres more accessible and configurable
Managed Postgres startup Tembo Data Systems Inc. today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding to further its mission of making the open-source database management system more accessible and available for a wide variety of uses. The Cincinnati-based company was founded by Ry Walker, whose previous venture, the data orchestration platform Astronomer Inc., ...
Salesforce packages core technology for developers and introduces a jobs marketplace
Salesforce Inc. today announced the general availability of Unlimited Edition+, which it describes as a simplified technology package of the technology it uses in its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Einstein artificial intelligence, Data Cloud, Slack, Tableau and Industries applications. The company also announced a marketplace for people with Salesforce skills to find jobs. Citing its ...
Featureform raises $5.5M to bring order to feature management ‘chaos’
Featureform Inc., the developer of a feature store for artificial intelligence development, today said it has raised a $5.5 million seed round that brings its total funding to $8.1 million. The company is addressing what it says is a mainly bespoke process by which companies transform raw data into signals to feed into large language ...
Startup VirtualZ says it can connect cloud apps to mainframe data in real time
A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is addressing the difficulty organizations have integrating data from IBM Corp. mainframes into their cloud applications. Mainframe data is often in older, proprietary formats that ...
Logik.io applies AI to complex configure, price and quote processes
Logik.io Inc., a company that focuses on streamlining complex product sales with rules-base automation, today is announcing the launch of an artificial intelligence-based product for the configure, price and quote or CPQ processes used in complex sales to configure products or services, price them according to various factors, and generate quotes for customers. Cosmo AI ...
Hardware sales trough sends Dell revenue down for the fifth straight quarter
Dell Technologies Inc. dropped a lump of coal into investors’ stockings today with third-quarter financial results that beat analysts’ estimates on earnings per share but fell far short of revenue expectations on continuing weak PC demand. Dell’s stock dropped more than 4% in extended trading. Adjusted earnings of $1.88 a share beat Wall Street forecasts ...
HPE, Nvidia partner on AI-optimized platforms and services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. is tuning up its artificial intelligence portfolio with today’s announcement of a new set of hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage and fine-tuning of AI inferencing services. The company said the services will be delivered on a platform that incorporates a combination of open-source software ...