Google, IBM and others launch an open-source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains
Thanks to containers and microservices, the way we are building software is changing. But you probably still want to know who built a given container and what’s running in it. To get a handle on this, Google, IBM and others today announced Grafeas, a new joint open-source project that provides users with a standardized way for auditing and governing their software supply chain. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/PJC3TChXo3k/
Box’s dalliance with AI foretells a broader shift in content management
As Box CEO Aaron Levie pointed out at his BoxWorks keynote this week, content management has been an evolving field since it came into being as an enterprise software concept in the 1990s. Back in those days, the state of the art was network drives. As content spread across the organization, we saw the rise of enterprise content management. Later file sharing tools developed and finally the… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/UdK9CZNVnZE/
Everything announced at Oculus’ Connect 4 VR conference
Standalone headsets, VR replacements for your computer monitor and ways to share VR to the News Feed were highlights of today’s big Oculus conference. Click through or scroll down to get just the need-to-know info and GIFs from our in-depth coverage of Facebook’s vision for the future of virtual reality.
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ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI
Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup is announcing an $8.7 million Series A today led by iNovia Capital with participation from Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Real Ventures, Dentons’ NextLaw Labs and angels. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/XV_6JHP4PNc/
‘Oculus for Business’ launches to help enterprises build VR
Oculus wants to help companies like Walmart and Deloitte build VR experiences for their clients and customers. So today it launched “Oculus for Business,” which lets companies buy $900 Oculus Rift bundles in bulk with enterprise-grade warranties, a full VR commercial license and access to dedicated customer support. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/yAx-_BsRK9c/
Box Graph unleashes relationships between content and users
Box has vast amounts of content in its stores, and as it begins to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to make it easier to surface, it also wants to expose each piece of content and how it relates to other content and users. To help achieve that, the company announced the Box Graph today at BoxWorks. “The Box Graph enables customers to predictively recommend content… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/vqEwptvMYi8/
Box Skills applies AI and machine learning to growing multimedia content
Box CEO Aaron Levie has always had a vision for the company that extended well beyond its earliest use case as way to transfer files between machines online. His company has continually kept looking to the future at ways the Box toolset could adapt to the changing needs of the market. More than a decade after launching the company and almost three years after going public, the company continues… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/_m_ePT71RcQ/
NumberAI raises $1.6M to make business landline numbers smarter
The phone number is probably one of the most important identifying numbers in your life — it’s how people reach out and get in touch with you outside of Facebook, Google, and whatnot. But the landline phone number, especially for small businesses, has basically gone nowhere in years. That’s where NumberAI and Tasso Roumeliotis’ team come in. The company launched to… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/0Hz_wxtTlvo/
Cloud Foundry adds native Kubernetes support for running containers
Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform as a service (PaaS) offering, has become somewhat of a de facto standard in the enterprise for building and managing applications in the cloud or in their own data centers. The project, which is supported by the Linux Foundation, is announcing a number of updates at its annual European user conference this week. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/ArRt3ktKlA4/
Cap table apps team up as Solium acquires Capshare
Uber, SpaceX and Stripe rely on Solium to keep track of all their shareholders and stock plans; 10,000 smaller startups turn to Capshare for more streamlined equity software that’s not clumsy like spreadsheets. Now Solium is buying out Capshare and letting it run independently, so together they can handle shareholder management from inception to IPO. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/1f9WqJ51Qvg/
Petuum secures $93M Series B to push AI into the mainstream
With a shortage of machine learning developers bearing down on the industry, startups and big tech companies alike are moving to democratize the tools necessary to commercialize artificial intelligence. The latest startup, Petuum, is announcing a $93 million Series B this morning from Softbank and Advantech Capital.
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Standard Cognition gets $5M to build a machine vision-powered checkout
While image recognition in photos and video has become increasingly sophisticated at an incredible rate, Standard Cognition co-founder Jordan Fisher says everyone is chasing autonomous driving — or, the “shiny object,” as he calls it.
That’s not the aim of Fisher and his team, who set out to start a company that’s focused on streamlining the checkout experience. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/mKm119za_RY/
Salesforce takes another shot at IoT
Everyone wants a piece of the Internet of Things, and why not? If predictions come to fruition, there are going to be billions and billions of devices and sensors broadcasting information at us by 2020, and someone has to make sense of it and point us to the data that matters. Salesforce wants to be that company (or at least one of them). Salesforce has never been shy about jumping on the… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/tLqxlcfeMzY/
Upskill Skylight update aimed at bringing augmented reality to mainstream
Upskill wants to be the development platform for your smart glasses, regardless of the brand. This agnostic approach is fairly unusual for companies building augmented reality applications and it provides enterprises with a neutral way to build these applications to work across different smart glasses systems. Company CEO Brian Ballard says the hardware is beginning to mature, but… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/3Ab-uODqOdY/
Chef’s Habitat Builder helps developers deploy their applications to any environment
Chef has long made a name for itself as the go-to tool for helping businesses automate the deployment of their on-premises or cloud infrastructure environments. About a year ago, though, the company also launched Habitat, a more application-centric service that allows developers to package up their code for deployment on a wide variety of platforms, ranging from containers and VMs to… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/JBv-6ehp4s4/
Spiro raises $3M to build CRM tools for businesses that don’t like CRM
Spiro aims to sell CRM software to businesses that have been avoiding traditional CRM products. CEO Adam Honig told me that he and his co-founders originally set out to build artificial intelligence products that could assist with CRM. But then they started hearing from companies that weren’t using any CRM at all. So the team ended up broadening its approach. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/AECbUlAk0zY/
Flexport’s epic plan to build a freight empire with its $110M raise
“We’re actually out here trying to create value, not just give venture capital money away” says Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen. “It’s counterintuitive. The more the business works, the more cash it needs.” That’s because Flexport doesn’t ship bits, it ships atoms. Lots of them. Flexport is a freight forwarding logistics network. If you produce a… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/gcELIUj5lQ8/
Butterfly nabs $2.4M seed round to improve managers with targeted tips
One of life’s puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with disdain for the status quo can a startup create something that people not only don’t hate, but find helpful. The idea for Butterfly originated from poor experiences the founders had when receiving leadership training. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/YGKVWlFblvU/
Facebook quietly launches Mac and PC Workplace Chat apps with screen share
TechCrunch has discovered that Facebook has stealthily launched official desktop PC and Mac chat apps with screen sharing — two features users have been begging for. Right now, they’re only available for Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise collaboration software that competes with Slack and other business apps. But users would surely enjoy if the consumer Messenger app got its… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/XkE0afViVyU/
Google Compute Engine goes a little crazy with up to 96 CPU cores and 624 GB of memory
If you’ve got a resource-hungry app, Google Compute Engine’s latest offering has you covered. It lets you dial up to 96 CPUs and an other-worldly 624 GB of memory. Remember Bill Gates allegedly asking who would ever need more than 640K of memory. He obviously didn’t see this coming. If you think that’s a lot, you aren’t kidding, and believe it or not it’s a… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunchIt/~3/LJTmf1GC7kc/ Source: https://techcrunch.com/
