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SoundHound takes in $100M to challenge Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
A surprisingly large proportion of voice-activated devices out there don’t rely on Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri to power their conversational interfaces. Many hardware makers are instead opting to use technology from a startup called SoundHound Inc., which today announced it has raised $100 million in funding to capitalize on the demand. The company’s software ...
Google’s latest weapon against Alexa is a new startup investment program
Google Inc. is turning to the startup ecosystem for an edge in the virtual assistant market. The company today announced a new investment program meant to support early-stage teams working to extend the capabilities of Google Assistant. According to an official blog post, the initiative will seek to foster software and hardware startups alike. In ...
ARM’s new tamper-resistant chip aims to secure the ‘internet of things’
ARM Holdings plc today unveiled a new chip with specialized antitampering features designed for situations where hackers gain direct physical access to a device. The Cortex-M35P, as it’s called, is based in part on technology from the company’s SecurCore processors. They’re built for use in biometric credit cards and other so-called smart cards that contain highly sensitive ...
DigitalOcean launches a new Kubernetes service to match cloud rivals
DigitalOcean Inc. unveiled a new Kubernetes service at KubeCon Europe today that’s intended to make it easier for companies to run software containers on its cloud platform. The move to add support for the Google Inc.-developed open-source technology may help the provider level the playing field against its bigger rivals. Amazon Web Services Inc. already ...
Neo4j 3.4 brings new analytics features for large-scale graph processing
Neo4j Inc., the startup behind the widely used database of the same name, today released a new version of the system that will enable companies to take advantage of its specialized architecture in more ways. Neo4j is a graph store, a kind of database specifically designed to keep track of the relationships between records. That ...
New study shows rapid growth in microservices adoption among enterprises
Enterprise adoption of the microservices approach to software development is growing rapidly and practically all those that have embraced the technology so far expect it to become their default application architecture. That’s according to a new report from Dimensional Research Inc. on behalf of LightStep Inc., a well-funded application management startup. The firm surveyed 353 ...
Google advances its hybrid cloud plans with new managed automation service
Google Inc.’s cloud ambitions aren’t limited to its own infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The company this morning released Cloud Composer, a service that enables administrators to create workflows for automating their firms’ technology environments. It works not only with Google’s platform but also those of competitors such as Amazon Web Services Inc. Moreover, the offering can integrate with ...
Microsoft one-ups Gmail’s big redesign with new features for Outlook
A week after Google Inc. debuted a new design for Gmail with a host of features aimed at business users, Microsoft Corp. is updating Outlook to reinforce its leadership position in the productivity segment. Most of the big changes unveiled today focus on mobile users. One of the enhancements that will likely resonate the most ...
Cisco to sell its video software business for up to $1B, buys an AI company
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to sell its video software business to private equity firm Permira Advisers Ltd. in a deal that, by some accounts, is worth $1 billion. There’s some conflicting information on the exact value of the deal. The $1 billion figure comes from reports by Reuters and Israeli business journal Globes ...
Microsoft launches an ultrafast version of its cloud data warehouse
Against the backdrop of rival Google LLC rolling out new infrastructure options for cloud customers, Microsoft Corp. today augmented the analytics capabilities of its Azure platform. The company this morning launched a heavily upgraded version of the Azure SQL Data Warehouse service that features major speed improvements across the board. According to Microsoft, this includes an ...