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Starburst Data raises $100M to give enterprise analytics projects a speed boost
Analytics startup Starburst Data Inc. today said that it has nabbed $100 million in funding from noted tech investors Andreessen Horowitz, Index Partners and Coatue as well as Salesforce.com Inc.’s venture capital arm. Boston-based Starburst is tackling the issue of data movement in enterprise analytics projects. To extract insights from their records, companies often have ...
OpenAI’s newest AI models draw and recognize objects more efficiently
Researchers at OpenAI have developed two neural networks that can draw objects based on natural-language user prompts and describe images with a high degree of accuracy. The projects, detailed Tuesday, expand the range of tasks to which artificial intelligence can be applied. They also advance the AI research community’s goal of creating more versatile models ...
Chronosphere raises $43.4M for its cloud-native IT monitoring platform
Chronosphere Inc., a startup working to make complex information technology environments easier to monitor, today announced that it has raised a $43.4 million funding round from a group of prominent investors. Greylock Partners co-led the round with Lux Capital and noted venture capitalist Lee Fixel. General Atlantic took part as well. Chronosphere, founded in 2019, ...
Newly minted unicorn Divvy raises $165M to ease enterprise spend management
Divvy Inc., a startup with a cloud service for managing corporate spending, this morning divulged that it has closed a $165 million funding round at a $1.6 billion valuation. The round included the participation of more than a half-dozen investors. The consortium includes PayPal Holdings Inc.’s venture capital arm, NEA and Insight Venture Partners, among ...
Qualcomm appoints Cristiano Amon as new CEO to lead 5G push
Qualcomm Inc., one of the biggest suppliers of chips to the mobile device industry, today said that Cristiano Amon will become chief executive officer effective June 30. Amon (pictured) will succeed Steve Mollenkopf, who has served as Qualcomm’s CEO for the past seven years. The company said that Mollenkopf will stay on for a “period ...
Five-hour Slack outage leaves some users unable to access the service
Slack Technologies Inc.’s team chat service was hit with a widespread outage earlier today that left affected users unable to access the service for about five hours. The issue has since been fixed. However, at some point during the outage, Slack’s email notification feature and calendar integrations started experiencing problems that at the time of ...
200+ Google workers are joining forces to launch a union
More than 225 Google LLC workers are joining forces to form a union that will represent full-time employees and contractors at Alphabet Inc., the search giant’s parent company. The news was first reported by The New York Times today. The newly announced Alphabet Workers Union is structured as a “minority union that represents a fraction ...
IoT consolidation: Industrial sensor giant Teledyne to acquire Flir for $8B
Two of the world’s top makers of industrial sensors are set to merge in an $8 billion transaction announced today. Thousand Oaks, California-based Teledyne Technologies Inc. said this morning that it has entered an agreement to acquire Flir Systems Inc. for $56 per share. The price represents a 40% premium over Flir’s volume-weighted average stock ...
Amazon acquires podcast maker Wondery to boost entertainment business
Amazon.com Inc. today said that it has signed a deal to buy Wondery Inc., a venture-backed podcast startup with a reported audience of 20 million monthly listeners. The deal will strengthen Amazon’s entertainment business, in which the online retail giant has invested billions of dollars in recent years to win more subscribers. Amazon didn’t say ...
Report: Web analytics startup SimilarWeb eyes IPO at $2B valuation
SimilarWeb Ltd., an analytics startup that counts more than half of the Fortune 100 as customers, is reportedly planning an initial public offering for the second quarter of 2021. The startup joins a growing list of data analytics providers that are expected to list their shares next year. Israeli business publication Calcalist reported the company’s ...