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Numerous IoT-Related Products, Services Debut at DreamForce

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce never wastes any time connecting dots in order to produce new marketing opportunities. This is a main reason why it is: a)...

Stream Analytics Provider WebAction Lands $20 Million in VC

Get ready for a new category called stream analytics, which is based on real-time streaming integration.Startup WebAction, which is betting on this taking place,...

DevOps Automator Chef Gets a $40 Million VC Infusion

Seattle-based DevOps automation software provider Chef, formerly known as Opscode, revealed Sept. 9 that it has closed a $40 million Series E funding round.The...

eWEEKChat Sept. 9: Digital Money: Bitcoin and Mobile Payments

On Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be "Digital Money:...

How Veritone’s Cognitive Platform Analyzes Spoken-Word Content

What if somebody did for voice content what Google did for Web search, Salesforce did for CRM and SAS does with analytics—all at the...

How the Latest Microsoft Technology Is Out-Googling Google

The conventional wisdom is that Microsoft and Google are completely different in how they approach the market.Microsoft these days is thought by many as...

How SwiftStack Is Raising the Bar on Object Storage as a Service

SwiftStack has looked at object storage as a service as it exists today, saw that it needed an upgrade, and moved it to another...

UST Global Launches Step IT Up America Jobs Program

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The conventional path of many IT careers is pretty standard all around the world: Study computer science in high school...

Mesosphere Expands Its Data Center OS for IoT Scale

Startup Mesosphere, which developed the first open-source-based data center operating system only during the past 18 months, already has expanded the scope of its...

Oracle Adds Optimization to Marketing Cloud with Maxymiser

Oracle on Aug. 20 revealed that it has agreed to acquire New York-based Maxymiser, a provider of cloud-based software that enables marketers to test,...