Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent will be opening a new AI research center in Seattle, according to The Information. The company has long had a core office in Palo Alto, but
Category: Enterprise Software
Cloudera finishes up 20% in stock market debut
Cloudera, the enterprise big data company, closed the day up over 20% at $18.09, after pricing its IPO at $15 per share. This is also above the range of $12
Equity podcast: Earnings clown car and the profitable-ish Dropbox with Hunter Walk
Welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the narrative. Homebrew’s own Hunter Walk joined us for this episode along with co-hosts Katie Roof,
Investors are betting 3DR can find life after Solo as a drone data platform
An early player in drone-tech, 3D Robotics Inc., announced that it has raised $53 million in a Series D round of funding on Thursday, including new equity funding and conversion
Microsoft meets expectations with $23.6B in revenue, Azure revenue up 93%
Microsoft just reported earnings for the last quarter. The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $23.6 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.73. Wall Street’s cadre of crack analysts expected the
UiPath raises $30M to build ‘software robots’ for internal business tasks
The world is awash with bots these days — applications the run either partly or entirely using natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision and other artificial intelligence technologies to
Marketing tech company Zeta Global raises $140M at a $1.3B valuation
Zeta Global, the marketing tech company that has recently acquired the likes of eBay’s enterprise arm and Acxiom Impact, is preparing for another round of acquisitions and investments in its
Dropbox really wants us to know its finances are healthy
We’re healthy enough to IPO but we’re not going to just yet — that was the subtext of an interview that Dropbox CEO Drew Houston had on Bloomberg earlier this afternoon.
Oracle delivers artificial intelligence across its customer experience cloud
Oracle announced a slew of AI-driven capabilities across its Customer Experience Cloud Suite today that are designed to help users to deliver better, faster and more personal experiences. If you think you’ve
Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch
Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb
Talkdesk launched an app store for enterprise call center customers
Over the last several years Talkdesk has offered a way for businesses to get a cloud-based call center up and running. However, the company realized it was providing just one component that its clients needed to
New Box platform pricing designed to give developers more cost certainty
Box has been in the process of enhancing its developer platform, and today it announced a new pricing plan designed to provide developers with more cost certainty than the old pricing
Backup service Rubrik now works natively in AWS and Azure
Rubrik, the startup that provides data management services like backup and recovery to large enterprises, is in the process of raising between $150 million and $200 million on a valuation of
Tips on how to get a Hana doing off a ground
Challenges of Hana The problem for SAP business is that determining either and how to pierce to S/4 Hana is by no means easy. Sebastian Grady, boss of eccentric support
Immuta adds accountability and control for project-based data science
Fresh off $8 million in Series A financing, Immuta is releasing the second version of its data science governance platform. With the democratization of machine learning comes new risks for businesses
