Monday May 20, 2024

Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure

 Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Microsoft today announced that it is now offering certified Bitnami images in the Azure Marketplace and […]

IBM Launches Quarks Open Source Development Tool To Build Efficient IoT Apps

 IBM introduced a new open source development tool today called Quarks, which is supposed to help manufacturers and programmers develop efficient applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. Quarks is actually based on the IBM Streams product, a proprietary enterprise tool for processing large amounts of live data, but it’s been designed from the ground up to… Read More Tweet This […]

Naritiv, The Ad Network For Snapchat, Raises $3 Million Series A

 Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A led by Third Wave Digital. Investors in the round Disney, Luminari apital, Deluxe Entertainment, Wavemaker Partners, and Matthew Anderson (CMO of Roku. Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, […]

Zoomdata Snares $25 Million Series C Led By Goldman Sachs

 Zoomdata, a company that’s trying to transform business intelligence by connecting to both modern and traditional data sources at scale, announced a $25 million Series C round today. The investment was led by Goldman Sach’s Principal Strategic Investments Group. New investor Comcast Ventures also participated along with prior investors Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners… Read More Tweet […]

CognitiveLogic Raises $3M To Help Enterprises Pool Big Data While Keeping Privacy Intact

 DataSift made a name for itself as a company that took large unstructured datasets — such as anonymised firehoses from social media services like Facebook (and previously, Twitter) and ordered them in a way for enterprises and brands to get a better idea of consumer preferences and other insights. Now Nick Halstead, the person who founded and led DataSift […]

JANDI, An Enterprise Communication Platform For Asian Businesses, Raises $2.5M

 Toss Lab has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding for JANDI, an enterprise communication tool that is tailored for companies in Asia. Along with a previous seed round, this brings Toss Lab’s total pre-Series A funding to $4.5 million. Read More Tweet This Post

Gravitational Helps Deliver Software On-Prem And In Cloud From Single Code Base

 Gravitational, a graduate of the Y Combinator 2015 class set out solve a very difficult problem for companies — how to deliver software in the cloud and on-premises from a single code base. Without a solution like the one from Gravaitional, companies would have to maintain two sets of code, which is simply too costly for most companies to […]

Mobile Payments Startup Payleven Raises Another $10M

 The days of Square clones popping up, everywhere you looked and capitalizing on Square’s conservative approach to global expansion, are long gone. But those startups are not. And today, one of them is announcing a Series D round. Payleven, a mobile payments startup originally incubated in 2012 at Berlin’s Rocket Internet, says it has raised a $10 million […]

Facing An Array Of Challenges, Autodesk Shifts To Subscription Pricing

 Autodesk has been around the block a few times, having debuted way back in 1982 in the earliest days of the desktop PC. These days, the company is in the midst of a major transition from a licensing model to a subscription model, while juggling the assortment of challenges a change like this brings to a mature […]

PayPal Commerce Matches Stripe With PayPal’s Own Native Shopping Toolkit For Apps

 PayPal’s first acquisition after it separated from eBay in 2015 was of a young startup called Modest, which had built a platform for small businesses to integrate buy buttons across third-party apps. Now, PayPal is taking the wraps off a new product that will integrate Modest’s technology. PayPal Commerce — as the new service is called — launches today in […]