Salesforce launches AI Cloud to bring models to the enterprise

Salesforce is launching a new suite of products aimed at bolstering its position in the ultra-competitive AI space. Called AI Cloud, the suite, which includes tools designed to deliver “enterprise ready” AI, is Salesforce’s latest cross-disciplinary attempt to augment its product portfolio with AI capabilities. In many ways, it’s a continuation of the generative AI…

Nasdaq to acquire financial services software company Adenza from Thoma Bravo for $10.5B

Nasdaq today revealed that it’s doling out $10.5 billion to acquire Adenza, a company that develops risk-management and related regulatory software for the financial services market. The megabucks deal, which constitues an even mix of cash and stock, will extend Nasdaq’s serviceable addressable market (SAM) to $34 billion, the company said in press release today, $10…

Nasdaq to acquire financial services software company Adenza from Thoma Bravo for $10.5B

Nasdaq today revealed that it’s doling out $10.5 billion to acquire Adenza, a company that develops risk-management and related regulatory software for the financial services market. The megabucks deal, which constitues an even mix of cash and stock, will extend Nasdaq’s serviceable addressable market (SAM) to $34 billion, the company said in press release today, $10…

Nigeria’s Termii to launch mobile app and scale customer engagement business with new funding

Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup Termii has raised $3.65 million in new financing, bringing its total funding to date to slightly $5 million. According to CEO Gbolade Emmanuel, in a chat with TechCrunch, the funds are not needed for operational activities but rather to power the company’s expansion initiatives: developing and promoting existing and new products…

Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls

Jun 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw in its FortiGate firewalls that could be abused by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997, is “reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” Lexfo Security researcher Charles Fol, who discovered and…

Asia Going Green(er) – Connected World

The growing trend towards green building has been focused on improving the materials used as well as the designs and technology employed. It is no longer thought that technology—the smart- building approach—is enough to prepare for the future and assure there is a future. New and old materials are explored, changes to them experimented with,…