Cisco acquires ThousandEyes, Moving from Hardware to Cloud Computing
Cisco acquires privately-held cloud-based platform ThousandEyes.
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Tech Giant Cisco to Acquire Silicon Photonics Chip Maker Luxtera
The popular technology company Cisco has reportedly announced its intent to acquire Luxtera. The deal has been valued $660 million. Luxtera, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $130 million, will give Cisco a photonic solution for that data networking problem. Rob Salvagno, head of Cisco’s M&A and venture investment team sees a company that can help […]
Cisco & Tech Mahindra to Jointly Launch Digital Tech Experience Centre
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have together launched a state-of-the-art digital experience centre in one of the leading cities of India, Bengaluru. The facility, located at Tech Mahindra’s campus here, will showcase use cases for digitization in manufacturing, retail and smart cities such as asset visibility and yard tracking, city surveillance and incident management, smart lighting, waste management, environmental monitoring, city […]
Cisco Ties up With AWS to Help Businesses Run Apps in The Cloud
Cisco Systems has reportedly tied up with Amazon’s Amazon Web Services for the purpose of offering software tools that would make it easier for Cisco’s customers to use Amazon’s data centers to run their business applications. This step has been taken as a part of a push at Cisco, one of the biggest suppliers of the routers and […]
San Francisco based Pinterest Appoints its First-ever CMO
San Francisco based web and mobile application Pinterest has appointed its first-ever CMO. The company has taken on board Andréa Mallard, the former chief marketing officer of the Gap-owned line of athleisure clothing Athleta. Following the appointment, Mallard will report to the visual search company’s chief operating officer Francoise Brougher, who joined in February. Prior to this, he worked for […]
San Francisco-based Brex Partners with some Major Firms for its Reward Program
The billion dollar company Brex has launched its new rewards program in partnership with Amazon Web Services, WeWork, Instacart, Google Ads, SendGrid, Salesforce Essentials, Twilio, Zendesk, Caviar, HubSpot, Orrick, Snap, Clerky and DoorDash. With this partnership, the company aims to give entrepreneurs the ability to accrue and spend points on services and products they use […]
San Francisco-Based Stripe Secures $245 million to Fuel Growth
US fintech startup Stripe has reportedly raised funds amounting to $245 million in a financing round. The funding round has valued the company at $20.25 billion, a dramatic surge from its most recent $9.2 billion valuation in 2016. The funding round was led by billionaire investor Chase Coleman’s hedge fund Tiger Global Management, and also saw participation […]
San-Francisco based Pinterest Prepping up for Global Expansion
San-Francisco based web and mobile application Pinterest is looking forward for global expansion and is eyeing India and Southeast Asia next. The USA unicorn valued at over $12 billion allows users to create virtual pinboards and discover information on the World Wide Web. The platform currently claims to have 250 million monthly active users, half of […]
San-Francisco based DoorDash Accused Against Customer Accounts Hacking
Food delivery startup DoorDash has received a number of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. A lot of people have tweeted at @DoorDash with their complaints stating that their accounts had been improperly accessed and had fraudulent food deliveries charged to their account. In several cases, the hackers changed their email addresses so that the […]
Tech Giant Cisco Plans to Step Up Investment in India
One of the biggest technology companies Cisco has announced that it is stepping up investments in the Indian market. This is being done as part of the second phase of its ‘Country Digital Acceleration’ (CDA) programme. With this, the company will focus on accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship, 5G use cases for citizen services as well as transportation modernization. […]
Reliance Jio and Cisco Systems are Likely to Extent their Partnership
Reliance Jio Infocomm and Cisco Systems that is based in the US are looking to extend their partnership to tap the Rs 50,000-crore strong enterprise market. This is expected to be done with a services portfolio which the Mukesh Ambani-owned telecom firm is planning to launch commercially soon. It was in 2012 that both these […]
Cisco To Acquire July Systems To Boost Its WiFi Platform
The multinational tech firm Cisco Systems Inc. has announced that It is in the advanced stage to acquire a mobile application platform provider called July Systems. This step will assist the company in strengthening the WiFi platform of the enterprise with the aim to provide much better indoor location services capabilities, among other offerings. July […]