Salesforce adds new AI features to the Service Cloud
The Salesforce Service Cloud is growing faster and faster. To keep that down, Salesforce occasionally adds new features. Today, Salesforce is adding a range of AI features that make it easier for large company employees to help customers.
The update mainly expands the customer service and support ca... Read more
Mira botnet now focuses on business IoT networks
The infamous botnet Mirai is back. A new variant of the botnet focuses on business IoT devices. In this way, Mirai collects a great deal of bandwidth in order to be able to carry out DDoS attacks. Mirai takes advantage of vulnerabilities that usually arise from unpatented software.
A hacker who offe... Read more
Google gets new billion dollar fine from EU
Google has once again received a billion-dollar fine from the European Commission. This time, Commissioner Margrethe Vestager imposes a fine of 1.49 billion euros on the company for abusing its dominant position in the online advertising market. Google would have used its dominant position to disadv... Read more
“UiPath becomes the most valuable AI startup through new investment round.
When it comes to robotic process automation (RPA), UiPath is one of the main parties. Now the company seems to be on the verge of concluding a fundraising round, which will bring the company's valuation above $6 billion (€5.2 billion).
UiPath has been attracting a great deal of investment for... Read more
Kaspersky Lab files a complaint against Apple
The Russian Kaspersky Lab today filed an antitrust complaint against Apple. The security firm will submit it to the Russian authorities. Central to the complaint is the fact that Apple has a tight grip on its App Store and forces developers of apps to make choices that they do not want to make.
The ... Read more
Trello gets 13 new features to improve productivity and safety
Trello, the collaboration and project management tool, features thirteen new features for business users. These improve the control, security and management function. The new features have been rolled out over the past six months and represent the largest update to the platform since its launch in 2... Read more
Slack focuses on large companies with new encryption tool
Slack Technologies is expanding its cybersecurity capabilities in an effort to acquire more business customers. To this end, the company is launching Slack EKM, a tool that enables companies to encrypt correspondence between employees using their own encryption keys, among other things.
Slack curre... Read more
Google makes project to sandbox C/C++ libraries on Linux open-source
Google has today created an open-source project for sandboxing C and C++ libraries running on Linux systems. This project is called Sandboxed API and is a tool that Google has used internally in its datacenters for many years.
The Sandboxed API is now available on GitHub. It also contains all the do... Read more
“AWS Pro-Rate links venture capitalists to startups.
Amazon Web Services is testing a new investment program specifically designed for risky start-ups. The program is called Amazon Web Services Pro-Rata and aims to link private investors to companies using AWS, as well as venture capital funds whose portfolio is full of potential cloud customers.
That... Read more
SAS invests 1 billion dollars in development of AI
Over the next three years, SAS will invest 1 billion dollars (880 million euros) in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It does this through software innovation, education, offering expert services and more. In this way, SAS builds on the basis that it already has in AI, including advan... Read more