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AI-driven IT operations startup Moogsoft raises $40M round led by Goldman Sachs
Moogsoft Inc., a startup competing in an emerging market segment aimed at applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to information technology operations, today announced the completion of a late-stage $40 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s growth equity division. A half-dozen returning investors chipped into the Series D round as well. Among the ...
Salesforce to acquire business e-commerce startup CloudCraze
Salesforce.com Inc.’s latest acquisition focuses on addressing the rapid growth of the e-commerce market. The company late Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire CloudCraze LLC, a Chicago-based startup with a cloud platform for managing online storefronts. What sets the service apart is a specialized feature set geared not toward selling to consumers, but rather ...
Cloudflare’s new edge computing service aims to accelerate the web
Cloudflare Inc. today launched a new service to help companies speed up their online services by deploying code in closer physical proximity to users. The offering, which is called Cloudflare Workers, does so by harnessing the web optimization giant’s global network of 127 data centers. In a certain respect, this approach represents an evolution of the ...
Rundeck aims to automate IT with new “operations-as-a-service” tool
Rundeck is a low key open-source platform used at companies such as The Walt Disney Co., Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. to automate their infrastructure operations. Rundeck Inc., a venture-backed startup founded by the software’s creators, today pulled back the curtains on a commercial version of the project designed to bring its capabilities to ...
Microsoft Teams gets Cortana voice commands and other new AI features
Microsoft Corp. today marked the first anniversary of its fast-growing Slack alternative becoming generally available by introducing several major feature announcements centered on artificial intelligence. The first capability is an integration with the company’s Cortana virtual assistant that will allow workers to use spoken commands in Microsoft Teams. The initial voice controls will make it possible to join a ...
Former Docker CEO Ben Golub takes the reins at blockchain startup Storj Labs
Former Docker Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ben Golub, who helped turn the company from a fledgling startup into a major force in the software development world, is taking his expertise to a new area: the blockchain ecosystem. A decentralized storage startup called Storj Labs Inc. this morning named Golub (pictured) as its CEO. The company offers ...
Dropbox seeks to raise up to $648M in IPO, with an $8B valuation target
Dropbox Inc. today revealed plans to raise up to $648 million in its forthcoming initial public offering, which would give it a valuation as high as $8 million when taking into account restricted stock. The IPO will see the cloud storage company sell 36 million shares for $16 to $18 apiece. In a regulatory filing, Dropbox specified ...
InfoSum launches new platform to bring privacy into user data analytics
InfoSum Ltd., a British analytics startup backed by $8 million in funding, today burst onto the scene with a new platform built to address one of the biggest challenges that enterprises face when trying to extract insight from their information. Large-scale analytics projects typically require combining records from multiple sources to piece together the full ...
Dropbox and Salesforce forge new alliance to bring their platforms closer together
Hot on the heels of launching a collaboration with Google LLC to provide a better experience for joint customers, Dropbox Inc. today announced another significant cloud partnership that should help further raise the appeal of its platform. The cloud storage provider will team up with Salesforce.com Inc. to let users of Dropbox’s services access their files ...
Uber reportedly close to selling Southeast Asia business to rival Grab
Following months of speculation that Uber Technologies Inc. is weighing a retreat from the Southeast Asian ride-sharing market, the company may finally push through with the move. A Bloomberg report published today cited multiple sources as saying that Uber is “close” to selling parts of its operations in the region to local rival Grab Taxi ...