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Security

Startup applies AI to cybersecurity insurance underwriting to improve policy precision

By Paul Gillin Sep 24, 2019

Startup Cowbell Cyber Inc. is applying machine learning to the small but growing market for cybersecurity insurance. It’s doing so with the announcement today of a continuous underwriting platform that it claims brings new…

Cloud

Alfresco offers content/process management platform as a cloud-native service

By Paul Gillin Sep 24, 2019

Alfresco Software Inc. today is unveiling a cloud-native version of its Digital Business Platform that it will offer as a fully managed service. The maker of open-source enterprise content management and business process management…

Blockchain

Bakkt bitcoin futures bomb on NYSE debut

By Duncan Riley Sep 23, 2019

Cryptocurrency startup Bakkt LLC, founded by New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc. finally debuted its much-anticipated bitcoin futures offering Sunday with a decidedly underwhelming response. It its first 24 hours of trading, Bakkt managed…

Blockchain

Kik shuts down core messaging app as it battles the SEC over initial coin offering

By Duncan Riley Sep 23, 2019

Troubled startup Kik Interactive Inc. is shutting down its core messaging service as it battles the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its $98 million initial coin offering in 2017. The SEC sued Kik…

AI

Amazon’s Echo can now help describe grocery items to the visually impaired

By James Farrell Sep 23, 2019

Amazon.com’s virtual assistant just got more intelligent after the company revealed Monday that the visually impaired can now ask it what they are holding. The new feature, called “Show and Tell,” enables customers who…

Emerging Tech

Facebook buys brain-reading neural interface startup CTRL-labs for $500M to $1B

By Duncan Riley Sep 23, 2019

Social networking giant Facebook Inc. has acquired neural interface startup CTRL-labs, an East Coast startup that reads brain signals, for an undisclosed price. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, today pegged the acquisition…

Policy

DevOps company Chef says it won’t renew ICE contracts after employee backlash

By Mike Wheatley Sep 23, 2019

Chef Software Inc. said today it will not renew its contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency following a protest by one of its former employees. The protest was led by Chef developer…

Policy

Apple pledges to make latest Mac Pro in US after weekend tariff exemptions

By Maria Deutscher Sep 23, 2019

Apple Inc. has decided to continue assembling its Mac Pro desktop computer in the U.S. after securing tariff waivers on certain components it imports from China. Regulators over the weekend approved 10 of the…

Blockchain

Developer of ‘Gods Unchained’ blockchain card game raises $15M in funding

By Kyt Dotson Sep 23, 2019

Immutable, a company formerly known as Fuel Games that makes games that use distributed ledger blockchain technology to create player-owned assets, announced today that it has raised $15 million in new funding. The company’s…

Big Data

Q&A: Data isn’t the new oil anymore, it’s the new software

By Diego Asturias Sep 23, 2019

“Data is the new oil” is a popular phrase hailing back to big data’s buzzy years circa 2006. After all, tech’s giants including Facebook Inc. and Google LLC have made billion dollar businesses on user data, developing software to run…

the latest

Startup applies AI to cybersecurity insurance underwriting to improve policy precision

Bakkt bitcoin futures bomb on NYSE debut

Kik shuts down core messaging app as it battles the SEC over initial coin offering

Amazon’s Echo can now help describe grocery items to the visually impaired

Facebook buys brain-reading neural interface startup CTRL-labs for $500M to $1B

Apple pledges to make latest Mac Pro in US after weekend tariff exemptions

Developer of ‘Gods Unchained’ blockchain card game raises $15M in funding

Q&A: Data isn’t the new oil anymore, it’s the new software

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