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Lemonade Inc., a young startup emerging as a major player in the insurance sector, this morning revealed that it has secured a $120 million funding round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. The financing included contributions from several existing backers as well. …
Anodot, the startup helping Microsoft and Lyft analyze their data, raises $15M
When a server or a piece of industrial equipment starts displaying unusual behavior, it can take a while for the issue to be spotted even if administrators have access to diagnostics data from the system and the appropriate monitoring software. Tel Aviv-based …
Alphabet’s Waymo taps startup Trov to insure self-driving taxi passengers
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car group today announced a deal with Trov Inc., a venture-backed insurance startup, to provide some reassurance against unexpected events for riders who will be testing its upcoming autonomous shuttle service. The technology giant plans to make driverless …
Microsoft cuts cloud analytics service pricing by 52 percent and adds new features
Microsoft Corp. is kicking off the week with the release of several major updates for HDInsight, one of the main data analytics services on its Azure cloud platform. The most significant of the changes revealed today is an up to 52 percent price reduction …
France seeks to fine Amazon for allegedly abusing its market position
Amazon.com Inc. is facing a new legal challenge in the European Union. On Monday, French daily Le Parisien broke the news that the country’s Economy Ministry has filed a complaint against the online retailer following a two-year investigation into its operations. Reuters cited …
Survey shows data quality is now a top challenge for analytics projects
Finding professionals with advanced data processing knowledge isn’t as pronounced a challenge as it once was for enterprises, according to Syncsort Inc.’s fourth annual survey of the analytics landscape. The provider, which sells software that helps large companies tap the information spread out across …
Paddle scoops up $12.5M in funding to centralize software sales
The subscription-based billing model that took off with the rise of cloud services changed how enterprises consume technology and opened a new chapter in Silicon Valley’s history. Yet today, software-as-a-service providers often still have to rely on multiple disparate systems to support …
Report: Squarespace raises $200M, now valued at $1.7B
Business website provider Squarespace Inc. is raising about $200 million in fresh capital as part of a funding round set to value it at an impressive $1.7 billion. That’s according to a Bloomberg report published this morning, which cited an anonymous source …
Microsoft backs $9.3M round into strategy management startup Workboard
Four-year-old Workboard Inc. is looking to streamline how companies execute their business strategies. To do so, the startup announced on Wednesday that it has raised $9.3 million in funding from Microsoft Ventures, Floodgate Management Co. LLC and several existing investors. The capital will …
LinkedIn opens up the internal tool its engineers use to find technical issues
Like parent company Microsoft Corp., LinkedIn makes contributions to the open-source community on a regular basis. The social network bolstered its project portfolio once again today by releasing the code for a homegrown tool used internally to tackle technical problems. Named Fossor …