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Report: GE may sell a stake in its industrial software business
General Electric Co. is looking to take its multibillion-dollar industrial software business in a new direction. Reuters reported that the effort is being led by recently appointed Chief Executive Officer John Flannery, who took over the reins at the start of this month. Several executives who didn’t wish to be named told the news agency that ...
LinkedIn’s latest open-source project aims to automate Kafka
Apache Kafka, the framework used to manage the internal flow of data at companies such as Netflix Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is getting a usability boost. The credit goes to a new open-source project from LinkedIn, which originally created Kafka back in 2011. Dubbed Cruise Control, the tool was developed by the social network to automate ...
Descartes Labs raises $30M for its satellite data platform
It’s estimated that about 9,000 satellites will be launched into orbit over the next decade, six times the number sent up during the previous 10 years. Those new platforms will gather a massive amount of geospatial data, which startup Descartes Labs Inc. plans to harness. The spinout from the Los Alamos National Laboratory on Thursday announced ...
Google inks landmark cloud deal with marketing giant Marketo
Within two years, Marketo Inc.’s popular line of marketing automation services will run entirely on Google Inc.’s cloud computing platform. That’s the objective of a deal announced today by the two companies. The collaboration is set to span six years and will see “tens of petabytes” worth of customer data moved to Google’s infrastructure as a service ...
Google App Engine receives a firewall for filtering traffic
A day after launching a new low-cost networking tier for its cloud platform, Google Inc. has rolled out another major enhancement that should save a good amount of hassle for developers. The update affects the Google App Engine, a managed environment that the tech giant provides for running web services. The company has added a ...
Investors bet $2M that Thai startup Eko can take on Slack
Slack Technologies Inc. is about to receive some extra competition from a fairly unexpected place: Thailand. The Southeast Asian nation is home to Eko Communications Inc., a business messaging startup that today announced it has raised $2 million in funding to go global. The expansion effort is set to place a particular focus on the ...
Microsoft adds new long-term data storage tier to Azure
Microsoft Corp. is making it easier to keep data on its Azure cloud for extended periods of time. Today the technology giant introduced a new storage tier for the cloud platform that provides an affordable way of archiving information. Dubbed Archive Blob Storage, it targets companies that seek to reliably store large volumes of low-priority ...
Lumity’s employee benefits platform attracts $19M in funding
Lumity Inc. is using analytics to change how companies deliver employee benefits. Today, the three-year-old startup announced that it has raised $19 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Social+Capital Partnership and True Ventures to take this data-driven approach mainstream. Lumity offers a cloud-based platform designed to fill the knowledge gaps that normally make managing employee insurance ...
Software-defined networking pioneers’ startup raises $16M to tackle outages
An erroneous change to a company’s network can cause major operational disruptions, which is why administrators usually take great pains to validate updates before rolling them out. It’s a difficult task that Forward Networks Inc. is working to simplify using math. The startup is supported by $16 million in newly raised funding from Draper Fisher ...
Google rolls out a new Chrome OS bundle for enterprises
Google Inc. is looking to make Chrome OS more widespread in the enterprise. To that end, the company has today introduced a new service that enables companies to centrally manage employee devices running the operating system. It’s dubbed Chrome Enterprise and costs $50 per device per year. The offering is a successor to the Chromebooks for Work ...