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NoSQL database maker Couchbase lands $105M funding round backed by Accel
Couchbase Inc., a NoSQL database startup that counts a third of the Fortune 500 among its users, today said it has raised a $105 million funding round led by GPI Capital with participation from Accel. Couchbase is the developer of the popular open-source Couchbase Server database. The platform is designed to store large amounts of structured, ...
Twitter starts testing new feature to let users limit replies to their tweets
Twitter Inc. has started testing a new feature with a select number of users that will make it possible to restrict others’ ability to reply to a tweet. The limited pilot could be a prelude to the company making the setting available to everyone on its platform. However, experimental Twitter features don’t always make it to ...
Dell places its OneFS storage technology in Google’s cloud data centers
Dell Technologies Inc. has placed storage hardware in Google LLC data centers as part of a collaboration with the tech giant to better support joint customers with hybrid cloud environments. The partnership, revealed today, headlines a series of new additions to Dell’s portfolio. Dell worked with Google to deploy Isilon storage systems running OneFS file ...
Google lands multicloud cybersecurity project with the DOD
Google LLC today said that it has won a contract to build a “secure cloud management solution” for protecting the U.S. Defense Department’s cloud infrastructure. The deal is valued in the seven figures, the search giant told Axios. Google is taking on the project for the DOD’s Digital Innovation Unit, which is in charge of ...
Strapi raises $10M for its ‘headless’ CMS after winning over IBM and NASA
Strapi Solutions SAS, a France- and San Francisco-based startup taking on WordPress in the content management system market, today announced that it has raised a $10 million round of funding led by Index Ventures. The round follows a $4 million seed investment last October that saw the participation of Docker creator Solomon Hykes. In the ...
Google announces virtual Cloud Next OnAir event for July 14
Google LLC’s annual cloud event is going digital with a new name, a new date and an expanded format that will span no less than nine weeks. Google Cloud Next OnAir will run from July 14 to Sept. 8 with more than 200 sessions covering various topics, the search giant announced today. Google in previous ...
Microsoft acquires RPA provider Softomotive to boost Power Automate
Microsoft Corp. today said that it’s acquiring Softomotive Ltd., a veteran maker of robotic process automation software with more than 9,000 customers worldwide. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is at least the third for Microsoft since March, coming on the heels of its purchase of telecommunications software makers Affirmed Networks Inc. and Metaswitch ...
Microsoft helps Sony power the world’s first AI image sensor with Azure
Microsoft Corp. on Monday afternoon announced an agreement with Sony Corp. to supply technology for the IMX500, a new image sensor touted as first in the world with the ability to run artificial intelligence models. Sony is the top image sensor supplier to the smartphone industry and has a presence in other segments as well. ...
Uber lets 3,000 more employees go in bid to preserve its ‘very future’
After seeing ride-hailing demand plummet because of the coronavirus pandemic, Uber Technologies Inc. is laying off 3,000 more employees on top of the 3,700 personnel who were let go earlier this month. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi announced the cuts in an internal email today. The email, which was obtained by the Wall Street Journal, also revealed ...
Report: TSMC stops taking new chip orders from Huawei after US restrictions
TSMC Co. Ltd., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has reportedly stopped taking new semiconductor orders from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The move follows the U.S. Commerce Department’s introduction of new export rules on Friday to restrict Huawei’s access to chips that use U.S. technology. Quoting a source, Nikkei reported late Sunday that Taiwan-based TSMC, which ...