Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
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 ...
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 ...