Context is everything when dealing with dialog systems. We humans take for granted how complex even our simplest conversations are. That’s part of the reason why dialog systems can’t live up to their human counterparts. But with an interactive learning approach and some open source love, Berlin-based Rasa is hoping to help enterprises solve their conversational AI problems. The… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/UvCUStEKs84/
Splunk is latest company to take exception to Larry Ellison’s slams at Oracle OpenWorld
Larry Ellison was at it again yesterday, making friends, influencing people and pissing off rivals. It was AWS in the keynote earlier in the week. Yesterday, it was Splunk, a seemingly innocuous logging software company, which somehow fell into Ellison’s marketing cross-hairs. The company took serious exception. Splunk is best known for logging all events related to IT. Ellison announced… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/GHb7CDG388Y/
Foursquare revamps its developer site as API usage soars
It’s no secret that developers are the key to Foursquare’s continued success, and as part of supporting that mission the company just launched a revamped developer site, its first major refresh since 2009. The new site clarifies what the difference is between the developer offerings. The Places API is the free offering that most developers will use that serves up information on… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/QIId9XRNnCc/
Apple acqui-hired the team from messaging assistant Init.ai to work on Siri
Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service — a smart assistant for customer representatives to parse and get better insights from their interactions with users, as well as automate some of the interactions — because the team was (according to a notice on the site) “joining a project that touches the lives of… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/e-77yOxNAYQ/
Cloud computing has demanded a kinder, gentler Oracle
Oracle has always had a swagger that reflects the public persona of its bombastic leader, Larry Ellison, but over the last several years, as the company has transitioned to the cloud, it has required a transformation to one that is softer and more customer-centric. Mind you, this was a company that was the poster child for vendor lock-in the 90s and early 2000s. They knew you were looking for… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/YVVY4pHf4X8/
Bluecore marketing automation platform raises $35 million in Series C
Bluecore, the automated marketing platform for ecommerce brands, has today announced the close of a $35 million Series C round of funding. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors including Georgian Partners, FirstMark Capital, and Felicis Ventures. As part of the deal, NVP’s Scott Beechuk will join the board of directors at Bluecore. When… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/8j4UkJJ-rNk/
LinkedIn to launch Talent Insights, a new analytics tool, as it dives deeper into data
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 500 million members, has made a large business out of recruitment — with some 11 million job listings on the site at any given time, and the recruitment market providing the company with its largest source of revenue. Now it is taking another step ahead in building out that business with a new product:… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/lEx1Uo54SWM/
Salesforce continues vertical tilt with new Financial Services Cloud
The Salesforce product line has always been distinctly horizontal, meaning it’s a general set of tools that can be used across any industry. The company has left it to customers, partners and developers to build industry-specific tools on top of the platform. This began to shift ever so slightly last year when Salesforce took a turn toward the vertical with a set of tools devoted… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/MFoPH5uE6jU/
Elements, Stripe’s new check-out toolkit, aims to boost e-commerce sales completions
Stripe, the payments startup is now valued at $9 billion, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to help its customers — which now number in the hundreds of thousands, and include companies like Lyft, Salesforce, Facebook, Deliveroo, and the U.K. government — generate more transactions, and thus greater returns for Stripe itself. It is launching Elements, a free toolkit… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/3Sxz_kNwr_4/
Who are you? Google Cloud releases custom identity roles Beta
Figuring out who can access services across a platform as varied as Google Cloud can be a challenge for IT administrators. Google has done a lot of the work for you with a set of fairly granular pre-defined roles, but recognizing that canned roles won’t suit everyone’s needs, the company announced a Beta of custom roles today. As the name implies, administrators can define roles… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/J3kpwVMptfQ/
Frame.io picks up $20 million to be the Slack of video
Frame.io, the collaboration platform for the video industry, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B funding round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from existing investors including Accel Partners, SignalFire and Shasta Ventures. Frame.io launched on to the scene back in March of 2015. The company solved a growing problem with a seemingly obvious solution. People… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/NXi81iEmyMI/
Intel introduces IoT provisioning solution to help install devices automatically
Chipmaker Intel wants a piece of the growing Internet of Things market and they have developed the Intel Secure Device solution to help companies provision IoT devices in a secure and automated way.
Dipti Vachani, vice president and general manager for the Internet of Things Group at Intel, says we hear that 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed by 2020, but there is a gap between that… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/Fgu3pLIQ1TQ/
Investors place $25M on AtScale to get the big picture of big data
AtScale, a four-year old startup that helps companies get a big-picture view of their big data inside their BI tools, announced a $25 million Series C investment today. The round was led by Atlantic Bridge with participation from new investors Wells Fargo and Industry Ventures along with returning investors Storm Ventures, UMC, Comcast and XSeed Capital. With today’s investment, the… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/_BnKCX-69F8/
Truphone raises $339M to retire debt and step up in connecting IoT devices
Truphone, a mobile company based out of London that made a name for itself through low-cost international mobile voice and data plans, is taking a very big step forward in a strategy to catapult itself into the future of communications: the company has picked up a massive £255 million ($339 million), funding that it will use to retire its debt and double down on providing data connectivity… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/sUVP2CWGC5k/
AWS fires back at Larry Ellison’s claims, saying it’s just Larry being Larry
When Oracle chairman Larry Ellison announced his company’s new autonomous database product at the Oracle OpenWorld conference keynote, he took several minutes to disparage AWS, one of his chief rivals in the cloud market. As market leader, Amazon stands firmly in Ellison’s crosshairs, but AWS took exception to his comments, and decided to issue a public rebuke. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/qJuQtE9YwIg/
ServiceNow just bought a design firm because even enterprise apps have to look pretty
ServiceNow is best known for helping large organizations organize field service and help desk activity. Today it bought design firm Telepathy because it knows that offering enterprise-class functionality isn’t enough anymore. Your applications have to look good too.
The company did not reveal the acquisition price
Telepathy is a design firm that was founded in 2001 in San Diego and… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/3PYM3VIWWU4/
Oracle adds AI development service to platform offerings
Oracle came late to the cloud and it’s been playing catch-up in recent years trying to add a wide range of services that customers are going to be demanding from a cloud vendor. To that end, the company added artificial intelligence as a service to its dance card today at Oracle OpenWorld. The company has been busy today with a flurry of announcements including a new autonomous database as… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/OaOpAmg-sq8/
Oracle climbs on blockchain bandwagon with new cloud service
Oracle is working hard to be a SaaS vendor that matters, whether with its new autonomous database service or getting involved with blockchain. Today, the database giant announced a new blockchain service at Oracle OpenWorld that aims to give enterprise customers who want to get involved with the blockchain, a fully managed approach. “There are not a lot of production-ready… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/nwSxN0LbKf0/
Larry Ellison pokes AWS while unveiling intelligent database service at Oracle OpenWorld keynote
Oracle is far behind in the cloud and chairman Larry Ellison knows it, so he takes whatever opportunity he can to take a swipe at market leader AWS. Last night’s Oracle OpenWorld keynote was no exception. When Ellison introduced the company’s new autonomous database, he couldn’t resist going after his chief rival while he was at it. The autonomous database actually does… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/LHfQWYIN7TY/
Accela gets acquired by Berkshire Partners as it looks to move govtech services to the cloud
Boston-based private equity shop Berkshire Partners announced this afternoon that it is acquiring Accela — a nearly 20 year old startup that sells regulatory management solutions to government clients. Accela has gone through a troika of CEOs in the last year. Previously acting CEO Mark Jung replaced Maury Blackman last October who had managed the company for about a decade. We… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/cguyhSTGE_w/ Source: https://techcrunch.com/
