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Demandbase raises $65M to help business-to-business firms drive more sales
Like their peers in the consumer market, business-to-business companies increasingly rely on online ads as part of their marketing efforts. The difference is that they try to a narrower group of users with authority to make purchases on behalf of their firms, which requires more fine-grained audience visibility than what traditional outreach tools offer. Demandbase Inc. is ...
Red Hat picks up development tools maker Codenvy
Red Hat Inc.’s lineup of development automation tools is set to receive a major boost. The open-source giant today revealed that it has acquired Codenvy Inc., the startup behind the popular Eclipse Che coding platform. The software, which is available under an Apache 2.0 license, boasts a fast-growing user base that clocks up to an estimated ...
Tableau offers up new machine learning, hybrid cloud features to data pros
Tableau Software Inc. wants to reduce the amount of effort involved in creating dashboards using its popular data visualization platform. The company today debuted a new release of the product that aims to streamline several key parts of the workflow, starting with the task of preparing information for use. Tableau 10.3 employs machine learning algorithms to ...
Google, IBM and Lyft team up for Istio, a new open-source microservices project
More and more companies are abandoning the traditional approach of deploying software as a tightly integrated package in favor of the microservices model, which relies on loosely coupled containers. This method can streamline management operations a great deal, but also introduces new challenges that are emerging as a major obstacle. Google Inc., IBM Corp. and ...
Report: Microsoft acquires $100M for AI security startup Hexadite
A month after word leaked that it had acquired infrastructure monitoring specalist Cloudyn Software Ltd. for as much as $70 million, Microsoft Corp. is reportedly making another purchase in Israel. Hebrew-language financial publication Calcalist revealed on Wednesday that the technology giant has agreed to buy Hexadite Ltd. in a $100 million deal. The startup sells ...
Report: SoftBank has bought a $4B stake in Nvidia
SoftBank Group Corp. is building up quite the investment portfolio. A Bloomberg report published today cited anonymous sources as saying that the Japanese telecommunications giant has quietly acquired 4.9 percent of Nvidia Corp.’s stock, becoming its fourth-largest stakeholder. The insiders claim that the investment is worth $4 billion, just below the threshold past which SoftBank ...
Content delivery network startup Fastly closes $50M round
In the six years since launching, Fastly Inc. has evolved from a low-key startup to a major force in content delivery with a run rate of over $100 million. Now, the provider is going after a new goal: achieving profitability. Fastly will carry out its plans using a fresh $50 million that it has raised ...
Microsoft and HubSpot join $15M funding round for PandaDoc
With a customer base of more than 6,000 companies, PandaDoc (Quote Roller Inc.) is one of the fastest-rising players in document management. The San Francisco-based startup plans to accelerate its momentum with $15 million in new funding announced today. Rembrandt Venture Partners provided the biggest portion of the financing, while the rest came from a group that included ...
Preempt brings multifactor authentication to traditional applications
Despite the fact that large-scale breaches are becoming an increasingly common occurrence, many enterprise applications still lack basic cyber protections such as multifactor authentication. Preempt Security Inc. wants to fill the gap. The San Francisco-based startup is launching a new tool today that aims to help companies overcome one of the biggest barriers to implementing MFA: ...
Mobile database startup Realm moves to simplify application backends
There’s often much more to mobile development projects than creating the app that users will ultimately run on their devices. Many services require the support of backend infrastructure to handle certain advanced operations, which can increase overhead a great deal. Realm Inc. is tackling the issue by rolling out a new service today that removes ...