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Segment and 200+ other startups take a swipe at Salesforce
In a not-so-subtle dig at Salesforce.com Inc., a group of more than 200 companies hailing mostly from the startup ecosystem today took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad to decry incumbent customer relationship management systems. The coalition, headlined by customer data processing unicorn Segment Inc., calls itself the Platform of Independents. The Journal ad features a ...
Pledging to go ‘carbon negative’ by 2030, Microsoft unveils $1B climate fund
Microsoft Corp. today said that it will launch a $1 billion environmental technology fund as part of a broad, multipronged plan to become “carbon negative” by 2030. The initiative was unveiled at a special event hosted by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (pictured, right), Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood (center) and President Brad Smith (left). ...
Epsagon bags $16M to bring more transparency to containers and serverless apps
Epsagon Inc. thinks that it has found a better way to track down issues in software container and serverless computing environments. The New York-based startup, which entered the spotlight today after announcing that it has raised $16 million in funding, provides a monitoring platform focused specifically on modern cloud workloads. The platform collects data about applications ...
Report: Apple has quietly acquired low-power AI startup Xnor.ai for about $200M
Apple Inc. has shelled out around $200 million for a Seattle startup specializing in power-efficient artificial intelligence, according to a new report. GeekWire today cited multiple sources as saying that the iPhone maker has bought three-year-old Xnor.ai Inc., which began its life as a spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. The Allen Institute ...
Eyeing e-commerce opportunities, Amazon pledges to invest $1B in India
Amazon.com Inc. will invest $1 billion in India, the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market, to help more local merchants start selling online. The plan was unveiled by Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos (pictured) at an event the company held today in New Delhi. The CEO shared more details in a statement to the press, ...
Elastic brings its data management stack to Kubernetes with ECK
Elastic N.V. today announced the general availability of Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, or ECK, a version of its popular data management toolkit designed specially to run on the container orchestration framework. The Mountain View, California-based company is the developer of Elasticsearch, an open-source search engine enterprises use to make internal records more easily discoverable. Over ...
Iconiq leads $90M round for AI-powered field service startup Zinier
Enterprises with a lot of physical infrastructure, such as wireless carriers and utilities, have large field service teams that perform maintenance work year-round to keep things keep humming along smoothly. Zinier Inc. believes that it can make those field service teams more productive using artificial intelligence. The San Francisco startup this morning announced that it ...
Microsoft, IBM and others back Google in high-stakes Supreme Court copyright case
A broad group of tech firms including Microsoft Corp. has thrown its support behind Google LLC in its high-stake copyright dispute with Oracle Corp., which will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this year. The list includes a Who’s Who of major industry players. Axios reported today that Microsoft, IBM Corp., its subsidiary Red Hat, Etsy Inc., ...
Google acquires e-commerce startup Pointy for a reported $163M
Google LLC said today that it’s acquiring Pointy, a Dublin, Ireland-based startup that has carved out a unique niche for itself developing e-commerce hardware. The search giant didn’t disclose how much the deal is worth in the blog post announcing the transaction. But a source told TechCrunch that Google is paying 147 million pounds, or about ...
AWS seeks temporary block of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft
Amazon Web Services Inc. is requesting a court order to halt work temporarily on the U.S. Defense Department’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, which was awarded to Microsoft Corp. last year after a hotly contested bidding process. The move came to light in a court filing released Monday. AWS, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing ...