Make way for another juggernaut amongst enterprise startups: Rubrik, a data backup company that only emerged from stealth in 2015, is in the process of raising between $150 million and
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Facebook launches telco infrastructure accelerator with Orange
Back in February, the Facebook-led Telecom Infrastructure Project led a call to put $170 million into startups focusing on solutions to improve infrastructure: the switching technologies, engineering, cabling and other components that go
New Microsoft tools integrate LinkedIn data directly into Dynamics 365
Microsoft announced some significant integrations between LinkedIn, the professional social network it bought last year for over $26 billion and Microsoft Dynamics 365, the company’s CRM and ERP suite. It
Swingvy raises $1.1M to give HR staff in Southeast Asia a break from paperwork
Human resources paperwork is never fun to take care of—especially if it’s literally on paper. Swingvy co-founder Jin Choeh says that in Southeast Asia, many small businesses are still stuck
Microsoft launches new IoT services for the enterprise
Microsoft is launching IoT Central today, a new Internet of Things (IoT) service that gives enterprises a fully managed solution for setting up their IoT deployments without needing the in-house expertise
How to conduct information analytics programmes and teams
Overcoming business challenges While Cynozure’s Foster agrees that anticipating people with good peculiarity skills and knowledge is not easy and generally requires investment in training, he also points out that
How Oracle tackles chartering discrepancies
Contract detriment leads to audit Oracle reactivated a second review after it was told that a bid had been unsuccessful. In 2010, it gave notice to AFPA that 885 licences
Sapho gets $14M more to make legacy software more useful with ‘micro apps’
In recent years, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack (and many more) have all built new productivity platforms for workers to integrate and communicate about dozens of other API-enabled enterprise apps, but what
Optimizely acquires Experiment Engine to offer more collaboration tools for big companies
While Optimizely has bought other startups before, co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker said today is the first time it’s acquiring a startup built on Optimizely’s developer platform — namely, Experiment Engine. Experiment Engine
Mirantis launches its new OpenStack and Kubernetes cloud platform
Mirantis, one of the earliest players in the OpenStack ecosystem, today announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019. The Mirantis Cloud Platform, which combines OpenStack with
Facebook will license its new 360 cameras that capture in six degrees of freedom
On day two of Facebook’s F8 conference, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s CTO showed off designs for two new 360 cameras that the company is going to help push to market. The x24,
Facebook is improving the 360 video experience by predicting where you will look
From the stage of F8, Joaquin Quinonero, Facebook’s Director of Applied Machine Learning, described a new technique the company is using to improve the watching experience for 360 videos. The
Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
Microsoft acquired the popular mobile to do list application Wunderlist back in 2015, and now it’s preparing users for its eventual demise with the release of its new application “To-Do,”
Nauta Capital closes out $170M third fund
Early stage VC firm Nauta Capital, which has offices in London, UK, Barcelona, Spain and Boston in the US, has closed out a 2016 fund raising — capping it off at $170
Docker brings containerization to legacy apps
At the DockerCon conference today in Austin, Docker announced a new service called the Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) Program that enables customers to move certain legacy apps into Docker containers,
