Saturday April 27, 2024

Airtable Launches Its API And Embedded Databases

 Two months after launching its unique organizational tool, Airtable is rolling out two new features that’ll make it easier to share your personal spreadsheet/database hybrids with others in a way they’ll find useful. In addition to sharing direct read or edit access to the relational databases you create in its app, Airtable is today letting […]

Jive Chime Wants to Ring Slack’s Bell With New Real-Time Messaging App

 Jive Software announced the general release of Jive Chime today, a real-time messaging app that could well be a buzz across Slack’s bow — and an attempt to modernize an aging platform When Jive announced its business app strategy earlier this year, CTO Matt Tucker said it was about giving customers new ways to interact with […]

Microsoft Predicts Its Commercial Cloud Revenue Will Reach A $20B Run Rate In Its Fiscal 2018

 Microsoft announced today at its Build developer conference that during its fiscal 2018 — after the middle of 2017 for the rest of us — its commercial cloud revenue will hit a $20 billion run rate. That means that the products Microsoft lumps together as “commercial cloud” — Azure, Office 365 for corporations, etc. — […]

IBM Researchers Can Now Spot Errors In Quantum Calculations

 IBM researchers say they’ve solved a big piece of the quantum computing puzzle with a new system for protecting against errors that can crop among among quantum bits, or ‘qubits.’ Read More Tweet This Post

HashiCorp Attacks Credentials Security With Open Source Secrets Manager

 Once upon a time, when you wanted to secure something of value, you put it in a vault and distributed the keys. Today, when you want to secure software credentials especially as you move across services, you can use a digital secrets manager and distribute the virtual keys. HashiCorp announced an early release of an open source […]

Etsy CTO On Its Conservatively Crafty Tech Philosophy

 The online artisans’ marketplace sells some unique products and has some unusual needs when it comes to IT. The company sets itself apart in a number of ways. Instead of using cloud services like many young organizations, it mostly shuns them preferring to bring as much as possible in-house. Etsy, which recently had a hugely […]

CFO to hold back on spending – Will that mean a pull back in IT

CFO Magazine reports that April 2015 Corporate Cash Indicators more financial executives will be a little less freer with their cash expeditures this quarter.  Since over 40% of all CIOs report to the CFO this could mean there will be a pull back on IT expenditures. Tweet This Post

TradeGecko Snags $6.5M Series A To Help Businesses Wrangle Inventory

 TradeGecko, a software-as-a-service startup that lets business owners manage inventory and orders without resorting to spreadsheets or enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has raised a $6.5 million series A round. Read More Tweet This Post

Apigee Closes Its First Public Day Worth $16.68 Per Share, Down 1.9% From Its IPO Price

 Apigee, a company that helps organizations build and manage API connectors, went public this morning at $17 per share, briefly jumping to $20 per share before closing at $16.68, down 1.88 percent in its first day of regular trading. After-hours, the company is flat. The company sold 5,115,000 shares in its IPO, raising $87M according to its CEO Chet Kapoor. It trades […]

Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M

 Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has been on a mission to turn around its beleaguered handset business by focusing more on software, and it looks like it has taken a significant step in that direction, specifically around file security and DRM. According to reports coming out of Israel, now confirmed by BlackBerry itself, it is buying WatchDox, a startup […]