Early stage venture firm, Draper Nexus, has closed its second fund at $175 million, according to Managing Director Q Motiwala. Its debut fund closed in 2013, at $50 million. Limited
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AWS drops its storage prices and launches new cold storage retrieval options
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a significant price drop for some of its storage services. In addition, it is also launched a few new features for developers who want
IBM expands its UK presence with 4 new data centers
IBM today announced that it is launching four new data centers in the U.K. This brings IBM’s total data center footprint in the U.K. to six, in addition to 16
Linux contra Unix prohibited patching
What has changed? Early versions of Linux prohibited patching have been around for several years, many particularly in a association called Ksplice, acquired a few years ago by Oracle. But
Astronomer connects your SaaS with other SaaS for a true in-saas-ception
Your SaaS is just out of control! You’re spending thousands or millions on products – a CRM system, a field operations app, a system to keep your life-like humanoid androids
French IoT startup Sigfox nabs €150M Series E, reportedly at €600M valuation
Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart-home alarms, machinery, refrigerators and city streetlights, today confirmed
How data science and rocket science will get humans to Mars
In a recent op-ed to CNN, President Obama re-affirmed America’s commitment to sending a manned mission to Mars. Think your data science challenges are too complicated? Imagine the difficulties involved in
Cogito closes $15M Series B to improve customer support with science
Cogito, a real-time feedback platform for customer service agents, added $15 million to its coffers today in the form of a Series B. This brings the company’s total fundraising to
French IoT startup Sigfox confirms €150M Series E at €600M valuation
Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart home alarms, machinery, refrigerators and city streetlights, today
Salesforce looks surprisingly good headed into the end of the year with a strong Q3
Despite a weak second quarter and a lot of eyes on the end of the year, Salesforce is already starting to look pretty good again to Wall Street. The company
Open source and coopetition are the new normal
In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining
Kubernetes founders launch Heptio with $8.5M in funding to help bring containers to the enterprise
For years, the public face of Kubernetes was one of project’s founders: Google group product manager Craig McLuckie. He started the open source container management project together with Joe Beda,
Barnsley Council maximises adoption of mobile apps yet staff consultation
Barnsley Council has helped a frontline staff get to grips with business apps and technology for bland work processes, such as leave requests. Download this giveaway guide How did record turn
IBM opens new Cambridge, MA security headquarters with massive cyber range
It was a big day for IBM today as it opened its shiny new security headquarters in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, complete with what the company is calling the
Dropbox Business updates focus on increasing enterprise security credibility
Dropbox is getting much more serious about its Dropbox Business product, and today it announced a partnership with security vendor Symantec as part of a broader update to its business
