Youreka Labs spins out with $8.5M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers

by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Bill Karpovich, Boulder Ventures, cloud applications, computing, CRM, digital assistant, Enterprise, Funding, Grotech Ventures, ITAD News, mobile app, Recent Funding, Salesforce Ventures, Startups, Synaptic Advisors, TC, Youreka Labs

Mobile field service startup Youreka Labs Inc. raised an $8.5 million Series A round of funding co-led by Boulder Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Maryland-based company also officially announced its CEO — Bill Karpovich...

Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Acxiom, Alpha Square Group, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, cloud applications, computing, Enterprise, Franklin Templeton, fujitsu, Funding, ITAD News, Recent Funding, Salesforce, sumo logic, Talkdesk, TC, TI Platform Management, Tiago Paiva, Trivago, Viking Global Investors, Whale Rock Capital Management, Zendesk

Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. New investors Whale Rock Capital...

Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations

by admin | May 17, 2021 | api, cloud applications, cloudflare, computing, Developer, Ding, Enterprise, Expanse, ITAD News, jumpstart, Matt Kraning, matthew, Matthew Prince, merge, mulesoft, nea, Recent Funding, salesforce.com, Software, Startups, Tim Junio

Merge, a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors include former MuleSoft CEO Greg Schott, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince,...

Google’s Anthos multi-cloud platform gets improved logging, Windows container support and more

by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Anthos, Apigee, AWS, ceo, chrome os, Cisco, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, computing, Enterprise, Google, google cloud, google cloud platform, IBM, ITAD News, Kubernetes, Microsoft, microsoft windows, red hat, Sundar Pichai, vmware

Google today announced a sizable update to its Anthos multi-cloud platform that lets you build, deploy and manage containerized applications anywhere, including on Amazon’s AWS and (in preview) and Microsoft Azure. Version 1.7 includes new features like improved...

Amazon will expand its Amazon Care on-demand healthcare offering US-wide this summer

by admin | Mar 17, 2021 | Amazon, Amazon Care, Apple, AWS, baltimore, Berkshire Hathaway, computing, Enterprise, eta, Google, Health, healthcare, ITAD News, jpmorgan, physician, Seattle, TC, Technology, United States, washington, Washington D.C.

Amazon is apparently pleased with how its Amazon Care pilot in Seattle has gone, since it announced this morning that it will be expanding the offering across the U.S. this summer, and opening it up to companies of all sizes, in addition to its own employees. The...

Google Cloud launches Apigee X, the next generation of its API management platform

by admin | Feb 4, 2021 | api, Apigee, Artificial Intelligence, Caching, Cloud, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, computing, Developer, Enterprise, firewall, Google, google cloud, google cloud platform, ITAD News

Google today announced the launch of Apigee X, the next major release of the Apgiee API management platform it acquired back in 2016. “If you look at what’s happening — especially after the pandemic started in March last year — the volume of digital activities has...