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Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform

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Seattle-based Pulumi has quickly made a name for itself as a modern platform that lets developers specify their infrastructure through writing code in their preferred programming language — and not YAML. With the launch of Pulumi 2.0, those languages now include JavaScript, TypeScript, Go and .NET, in addition to its original support for Python. It’s […] Continue reading Pulumi brings support for more languages to its infrastructure-as-code platform→

Hackaday Links: March 1, 2020

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Talk about buried treasure: archeologists in Germany have – literally – unearthed a pristine Soviet spy radio, buried for decades outside of Cologne. While searching for artifacts from a Roman empire settlement, the archeologists found a pit containing the Soviet R-394KM transceiver, built in 1987 and apparently buried shortly thereafter …read more

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Freshworks acquires AnsweriQ

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Customer engagement platform Freshworks today announced that it has acquired AnsweriQ, a startup that provides AI tools for self-service solutions and agent-assisted use cases where the ultimate goal is to quickly provide customers with answers and make agents more efficient. The companies did not disclose the acquisition price. AnsweriQ last raised a funding round in […] Continue reading Freshworks acquires AnsweriQ→

Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees

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Amazon has gone live with Amazon Care, a new pilot healthcare service offering that is initially available to its employees in and around the Seattle area. The Amazon Care offering includes both virtual and in-person care, with telemedicine via app, chat and remote video, as well as follow-up visits and prescription drug delivery in person […] Continue reading Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees→

Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second headquarters with its Tableau acquisition

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Here’s an interesting by-product the news today that Salesforce would be acquiring Tableau for $15.7 billion: the company is going to make Seattle, Washington (home of Tableau) the official second headquarters of San Francisco-based Salesforce, putting the company directly in the face of tech giants and Salesforce frenemies Microsoft and Amazon. “An HQ2, if you […] Continue reading Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second headquarters with its Tableau acquisition→

Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal

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On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce is […] Continue reading Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal→

Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform

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Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that offers a cloud-agnostic AI automation platform for enterprises, today announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Partners. Madrona, Gradient Ventures, Work-Bench, Osage University Partners and Rakuten Ventures also participated in this round. While the company started out five years ago as a marketplace for algorithms, it […] Continue reading Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform→

Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform

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Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that offers a cloud-agnostic AI automation platform for enterprises, today announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Partners. Madrona, Gradient Ventures, Work-Bench, Osage University Partners and Rakuten Ventures also participated in this round. While the company started out five years ago as a marketplace for algorithms, it […] Continue reading Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform→

Market map: the 200+ innovative startups transforming affordable housing

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How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide. Continue reading Market map: the 200+ innovative startups transforming affordable housing→