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Vista Equity Partners buys majority stake in cloud service management startup BetterCloud
Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in BetterCloud Inc., a New York-based startup that helps companies manage the software-as-a-service applications used by their workers. BetterCloud announced the transaction this morning. The value of Vista Equity Partners’ investment wasn’t disclosed, but the startup did divulge that its existing investors will stay on as stakeholders. ...
Google Cloud expands its Vertex AI platform with new machine learning tools
Google LLC’s cloud business today debuted a series of enhancements to its Vertex AI platform that will enable enterprises to develop artificial intelligence software faster. Introduced last year, Vertex AI is a collection of cloud services for creating AI models. Some of the services in the platform are geared toward tech-savvy companies that build fully ...
Report: Twitter agrees to give Elon Musk access to more internal data
Twitter Inc. plans to give Elon Musk access to more internal data about its platform, the Washington Post reported today. Musk is currently in the process of acquiring Twitter for $44 billion. The all-cash transaction, which was announced in April, values the social network at $54.20 per share. The Post today cited a source familiar ...
Vanta raises $110M at $1.6B valuation to simplify cybersecurity compliance
Vanta Inc., a startup that helps organizations comply with cybersecurity standards such as SOC 2, has raised $110 million in funding at a $1.6 billion valuation. The funding round was led by Craft Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup said in its announcement of the Series B round today that Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator and other ...
Amazon executive Dave Clark to join logistics startup Flexport as CEO
Dave Clark, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc.’s Worldwide Consumer business, will join logistics startup Flexport Inc. in the same role. The news was reported by Forbes today and confirmed by Flexport. It comes a few days after Amazon announced that Clark will resign from his role as CEO of its Worldwide Consumer business on ...
Pure Storage debuts FlashBlade//S appliances and new AI reference architecture
Pure Storage Inc. today introduced a new lineup of flash storage systems called FlashBlade//S and a reference architecture focused on artificial intelligence use cases. NYSE-listed Pure Storage is a major supplier of flash storage equipment for data centers. The company also provides software products that help customers back up business records, optimize their cloud environments ...
EU to require that mobile devices include USB-C charging port
European Union lawmakers today agreed on new rules that will require smartphone makers to ship their devices with USB-C support starting in autumn 2024. The rules will also apply to other types of electronics. All tablets, e-readers, earbuds, digital cameras, headphones and headsets, handheld video game consoles and portable speakers that can be charged via ...
MongoDB debuts new encryption tool and analytics features at MongoDB World
MongoDB Inc. today introduced new features that will enable enterprises to query their data without decrypting it and carry out large-scale analytics projects more easily. The features were announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference. Publicly traded MongoDB provides an open-source NoSQL database that is widely used among developers. The database has been downloaded ...
Snowflake introduces new cybersecurity workload for its cloud data platform
Snowflake Inc. today introduced a new cybersecurity workload to help organizations more effectively protect their technology environments from cyberattacks. Snowflake provides a popular cloud data platform, the Snowflake Data Cloud, that enables customers to store and process large amounts of information. The platform supports a variety of workloads ranging from marketing analytics to data science. ...
Skyhigh Security rolls out new features for securing enterprise applications
Skyhigh Security is refreshing its flagship cybersecurity platform with new features that will help enterprises more effectively protect their cloud applications and data from cyberattacks. The company announced the new features today at the RSA Conference. Skyhigh Security, officially Musarubra US LLC, emerged from a 2021 deal in which McAfee Corp. sold its enterprise business ...