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Microsoft to launch Office 2021 with upgraded interface and new data features
Microsoft Corp. has shared early details about the next release of Office, which will bring an upgraded interface, new features that will allow users to manipulate data in Excel more flexibly and other changes. Office 2021, as the release is called, was detailed on Thursday. It’s a separate product from the cloud-based version of Microsoft’s ...
Solo.io launches its enterprise service mesh platform into general availability
Solo.io Inc. today announced the general availability of Gloo Mesh Enterprise, a platform it has developed to help enterprises build and maintain software container applications more easily. Containerized applications usually comprise of multiple modules. Those modules need a channel for communicating with one another: An e-commerce platform’s catalog component, for example, must fetch item descriptions ...
CrowdStrike buys Dell-backed log analytics startup Humio for $400M
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today said it’s paying about $400 million to acquire Humio Inc., a startup with a software product that processes security data in near-real time to catch cyberattacks as they happen. CrowdStrike will use Humio’s software to upgrade the capabilities of its breach prevention platform. Platforms such as Falcon catch threats lurking in ...
Google to open first Minnesota office to advance Mayo Clinic cloud partnership
Google LLC today announced plans to open an office in Rochester, Minnesota, that will support the search giant’s technology partnership with Mayo Clinic. The move underscores the growing focus Google is placing on healthcare as part of its cloud strategy. The new hub will be located inside Collider Coworking, a coworking space directly adjacent to ...
Google, Facebook choose different paths amid pressure to pay for news in Australia
Facebook Inc. today said it would restrict the ability of users in Australia to share news on its platform, just hours after Google LLC announced it will pay News Corp. for the rights to display articles in search results. Both developments come in response to a proposed Australian law that would require the two tech ...
Google debuts Cloud Domains to help enterprises manage their domain names
Google LLC today introduced the preview release of Cloud Domains, a service that will enable Google Cloud customers to maintain their domain names through the same console they use to manage infrastructure-as-a-service resources. The service could potentially also help enterprises improve their cybersecurity posture in the process. Setting up a domain name typically involves using ...
Startup vArmour bags $58M to find vulnerabilities obscured by hybrid cloud complexity
San Francisco startup vArmour Inc. today said it has picked up an additional $58 million in funding for its security platform, which uses an approach it calls application relationship management to spot weak points in hybrid cloud environments. Enterprise applications are interconnected in various ways. An analytics tool, for example, might run on Amazon Web Services ...
AI hardware startup Recogni raises $48.9M for its autonomous driving module
Recogni Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence hardware for autonomous vehicles, today announced that it has closed a $48.9 million funding round from a group of investment firms and auto industry players. The announcement is the latest sign that investors’ interest in the autonomous vehicle market continues to be strong. The round was led by ...
Axiom Space raises $130M to advance its commercial space station plans
Axiom Space Inc., a Houston startup building a commercial space station, today said it has raised $130 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by C5 Capital. The Series B round reportedly values the startup at well over $1 billion. Axiom Space launched in 2016 with the goal of deploying the world’s first ...
Palantir tops quarterly revenue expectations, but loss sends its stock tumbling
Palantir Technologies Inc. today reported stronger fourth-quarter revenue than what the market had anticipated, but it also posted a loss that caught investors by surprise and sent its shares sliding more than 10%. Palantir provides software for collecting and analyzing large volumes of data. The company’s customers include the U.S. intelligence community, law enforcement agencies ...