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Amazon adds more secure edition of its QuickSight analytics service
Amazon.com Inc. has introduced an enterprise edition of its QuickSight analytics service that aims to help companies better secure the data they’re processing. The introduction comes a month after the company launched QuickSight into general availability. The biggest improvement over the standard tier is a built-in encryption feature for protecting records when they’re not being actively used. ...
VictorOps lands additional $2.8M as part of oversubscribed funding round
With an annual growth rate in the high double digits and thousands of customers under its belt, VictorOps Inc. has become a magnet for venture capitalists. The incident response startup on Friday revealed that it had raised an additional $2.8 million as part of a $15 million round originally announced in November. “We received a lot ...
Bold launches its enterprise publishing platform and adds a Slack bot
The cloud-based collaboration market is jam packed with document sharing tools, but Bold Inc. believes that there’s room for one more. The startup, founded by Ben Lee and David Byttow, founder of the defunct anonymous sharing app Secret, on Thursday announced the general availability of its IO publishing service, which aims to provide a one-stop hub ...
Springbot raises $10M for its marketing automation platform
Online retailers are investing heavily in marketing tools to try to capture a bigger slice of the $1.9 trillion global e-commerce market. Springbot Inc., a five-year-old marketing automation startup, announced on Thursday that it has raised $10 million in funding to capitalize on the trend. The round was led by the growth capital arm of Harbert ...
HyperScience raises $18M for its paperwork-beating AI
Handling paperwork isn’t exactly the most complicated aspect of a company’s operations, but it consumes a lot of person-hours that could be spent on more productive activities. New York’s HyperScience Inc. believes that the answer is artificial intelligence. The startup exited stealth today to pursue its vision for automating document management and announced the completion ...
Nokia buys analytics startup Deepfield to build self-optimizing networks
Although it certainly doesn’t dominate the mobile phone market anymore, Nokia Corp. remains a leading player in the multibillion-dollar network equipment market. The company set out to improve its position even further today by acquiring a Michigan-based startup called Deepfield Inc. that develops traffic analysis services. At the heart of its product lineup is Singularity, ...
Amazon launches U.K. cloud data centers for 100K+ customers
Just days after announcing an expansion into Canada, Amazon.com Inc. is growing its global infrastructure network once again by opening two new cloud data centers in the United Kingdom. The facilities are located in London and are reportedly on lease from local hosting companies as opposed to being owned by the company itself. Regardless, Amazon has ...
Docker open-sources a core component of its container engine
About eight months ago, the engineers at Docker Inc. decided that its popular container platform was in need of a revamp and set out to break up the complex tangle of components that formed its core architecture. The long-awaited product of their efforts arrived today in the form of “containerd,” a runtime module that is ...
Cloudflare buys Eager to build an app store for websites
Cloudflare Inc.’s strategic ambitions extend far beyond the domain name system hosting space where it has built its reputation. The provider also offers several tools designed to improve the security and usability of web services, a lineup that is poised to receive a major boost in the wake of its move today to acquire Eager ...
Amazon offers to manage big customers’ cloud deployments
Setting up and maintaining a remote cloud environment can be a major challenge even for large organizations with plenty of technical personnel at their disposal. In a bid to ease the task, Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out a new management service that aims to reduce the amount of effort required to run applications on ...