tech:

taffy

Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire CloudCraze

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CloudCraze, a B2B commerce platform built natively on Salesforce. Financial terms of the transaction were not shared.

CloudCraze provides B2B commerce experiences for companies including Coca-Cola, Cummins, Ecolab, Land O’ Lakes and WABCO, according to a statement from Salesforce. The company had received a $20 million funding round from Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures in 2017.

Read the announcement by here Ray Grady, president and chief customer officer of CloudCraze, here: https://cloudcraze.com/news/cloudcraze-signs-definitive-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-salesforce/

Read a statement by Jeff Barnett, CEO, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, here: https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/stories/2018/3/031218/

[Image courtesy: Salesforce]

Just in

Oso Semiconductor raises $5.2M

Oso Semiconductor has raised $5.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Engine Ventures.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies — CNBC

It’s called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use; writes Hayden Field. 

DeepSeek’s popular AI app is explicitly sending US data to China — Wired

Users have already reported several examples of DeepSeek censoring content that is critical of China or its policies, writes Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman. 

DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it’s limiting registrations — CNBC

DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services; writes Hayden Field.