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Data management startup Matillion closes $100M round led by Lightspeed
Data management startup Matillion Ltd. today announced that it has closed a $100 million round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Scale Venture Partners participated as well, along with the U.K. branch of Silicon Valley Bank. Matillion has raised more than $160 million in venture funding including this latest ...
Atlassian refreshes Trello with biggest redesign in years
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today launched a major redesign of Trello, its popular project tracking platform, that brings new ways to organize the tasks involved in a project and enables teams to preview files from external services such as Dropbox. Atlassian acquired Trello four years ago in a transaction worth $425 million. The platform, which has ...
Tigera debuts Calico Cloud to make Kubernetes clusters more secure
Kubernetes startup Tigera Inc. today debuted its newest product, Calico Cloud, which it says will enable enterprises to secure their software container environments more thoroughly. Tigera is a San Francisco-based startup backed by investors that include Insight Venture Partners and NEA. It’s the developer of Project Calico, a popular open-source networking tool for Kubernetes that’s ...
Pure Storage upgrades its flash systems’ ransomware defenses and performance
Pure Storage Inc. today rolled out new software features to its all-flash storage systems that will provide stronger protection against ransomware attacks and improve performance for certain enterprise applications. Publicly traded Pure Storage has two flagship product lines: FlashArray and FlashBlade. FlashArray is a family of storage systems for running mission-critical applications such as financial ...
Uber calls for new EU rules to regulate ‘gig economy’ apps
Uber Technologies Inc. today called on European Union officials to implement new rules to regulate “gig economy” platforms such as its ride-hailing and food delivery apps. The company also published a lengthy paper outlining its positions on the matter. The move comes as the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, prepares to weigh whether regulatory ...
Google fined $1.3M in France over misleading hotel ranking algorithm
French authorities have found that Google LLC displayed misleading information about hotels to users and fined the company 1.1 million euros, or about $1.3 million, over the matter. France’s General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control announced the decision today. The penalty concludes an investigation that the watchdog launched in 2019 following ...
Report: Qualcomm told regulators it’s concerned about Nvidia’s $40B Arm bid
Qualcomm Inc. believes Nvidia Corp.’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm Ltd. could harm competition in the chip industry, according to a new report. Publicly traded Qualcomm is a major supplier of smartphone processors. It also makes chips for many other systems ranging from virtual reality headsets to connected vehicles. Citing sources familiar with the ...
Apptio acquires Targetprocess to help enterprises plan IT investments
Information technology cost optimization specialist Apptio Inc. today announced that it has acquired Targetprocess, the maker of a software platform that helps companies plan and carry out business investments using agile methodology. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Agile methodology, usually referred to simply as agile, is a popular collection of project management practices used ...
Report: Microsoft recently sought to acquire Pinterest
Microsoft Corp. at one point considered acquiring the social network Pinterest Inc., according to a report today in the Financial Times. Pinterest had a market capitalization of about $51 billion prior to the publication of the report. The company’s stock price jumped more than 5% following the Financial Times’ scoop, after previously rising more than ...
HPE goes to space with NASA partnership to launch edge computer into orbit
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. will send a specialized edge computing system to the International Space Station this month to give astronauts access to more processing power for research projects. The initiative, a collaboration among HPE, Microsoft Corp. and NASA, was announced today. The system HPE is scheduled to send to the station is called the ...