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Cloud

AWS’ public sector push leads to investment in Bahrain’s citizens

By Bev Bellile Oct 3, 2018

With a decidedly global aim for public cloud domination, Amazon Web Services Inc. has been flexing its expansion muscles to all corners of the world, including the Middle East region. Bahrain, a tiny island kingdom, tapped AWS…

Emerging Tech

GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit strikes $2.75B partnership with Honda

By Maria Deutscher Oct 3, 2018

GM Cruise LLC, the high-profile unit within General Motors Co. working on autonomous driving technology, is joining forces with another automaker to speed up its efforts. The group today announced a $2.75 billion partnership…

Big Data

Unicorn sighting: Talkdesk raises $100M for its intelligent contact center software suite

By Paul Gillin Oct 3, 2018

Talkdesk Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million funding round, calling it the largest round ever raised by a private company in the contact center industry. The Series B funding, which was led…

Big Data

Databricks’ MLflow machine learning toolkit adds support for R language

By Mike Wheatley Oct 3, 2018

Big-data company Databricks Inc. today updated its MLflow machine learning toolkit with support for the R programming language and other new features aimed at boosting its utility. Databricks had unveiled MLflow only in June in order…

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks inks $173M deal to acquire cloud security startup RedLock

By Maria Deutscher Oct 3, 2018

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced that it has agreed to buy RedLock Inc., a competitor focused on securing cloud environments, in an all-cash deal worth $173 million. The purchase is the latest in…

Infra

Work apps that put ‘regular’ employees in the innovation juice press

By R. Danes Oct 3, 2018

Whom do modern businesses depend on to come up with the next breakthrough discovery or innovative idea? Since businesses in general are becoming software businesses, many would say it’s their developers. But what if,…

Emerging Tech

In apparent acquihire, Google acquires automation platform startup Onward

By Duncan Riley Oct 2, 2018

Google LLC has acquired Onward, a small San Francisco-based startup that was building a customer service automation platform, in what appears to be essentially a talent buy. The price of the acquisition is not…

Emerging Tech

Report: Coinbase in talks to raise $500M on $8B valuation

By Duncan Riley Oct 2, 2018

Coinbase Inc., the first cryptocurrency exchange to become a unicorn, is reported to be raising even more money on an $8 billion valuation. Citing people familiar with the matter, Recode claimed Tuesday that the company is in…

Apps

Facebook introduces new anti-bullying tools to curb harassment

By James Farrell Oct 2, 2018

Facebook Inc. has bolstered its efforts to reduce the amount of bullying that occurs on the platform with a slew of new anti-bullying tools. On Tuesday, the company announced that it intends to give…

Emerging Tech

Microsoft gets busy with a new range of Surface computing devices

By Duncan Riley Oct 2, 2018

Microsoft Corp. today debuted a new range of Surface products that are being hailed by even skeptical observers as “great upgrades.” As expected, Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 6, a two-in-one laptop/tablet hybrid with eighth-generation…

the latest

GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit strikes $2.75B partnership with Honda

Databricks’ MLflow machine learning toolkit adds support for R language

Work apps that put ‘regular’ employees in the innovation juice press

In apparent acquihire, Google acquires automation platform startup Onward

Report: Coinbase in talks to raise $500M on $8B valuation

Microsoft gets busy with a new range of Surface computing devices

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