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For a startup that has only been around since 2013 and raised no significant outside funding, PointDrive LLC is quite the overachiever. The Chicago-based outfit announced today that it’s been acquired by LinkedIn Inc. after a year of serving as a software …
Office 365 gets new AI-powered editing and research functionality
Microsoft Corp. is gearing up to release a major update for its Office 365 productivity suite. The biggest changes are coming to Word, which is set to receive two new editing features that the company says employ artificial intelligence to streamline the writing …
Codeship nabs $7M for its continuous integration service
More and more venture capital is flowing into the Docker ecosystem as investors seek to capitalize on the rapidly growing demand for containers. The latest beneficiary of this trend is Codeship Inc., a provider of continuous integration (CI) technology for microservices projects …
Brocade’s Wi-Fi subsidiary moves network management to the cloud
Ruckus Wireless Inc. has apparently been busy since its $1.5 billion sale to Brocade Communications Systems Inc. earlier this year. The Wi-Fi equipment provider today unveiled a new hosted management platform that promises to let organizations centrally configure, maintain and monitor their …
Teradata bolsters Hadoop consulting biz with new UK acquisition
There’s much more to the Hadoop ecosystem than just software. The market also boasts numerous professional services providers that focus on helping companies deploy and customize the analytics platform, a segment where Teradata Corp. has emerged as a frontrunner. The vendor cemented …
What you missed in Big Data: Acquisitions are reshaping the analytics world
When an established vendor identifies a gap in its product lineup, acquiring a startup with the necessary technology is often faster and more convenient than trying to build a competing solution from scratch. The latest example of this dynamic came last week …
What you missed in Cloud: Security and machine learning top the agenda
The one-upmanship in the public cloud continued as usual last week, with several major providers rolling out new features for their infrastructure-as-a-service platforms. Microsoft Corp. led the charge by launching a breach prevention tool called Azure Security Center that aims to help …
Workday picks up BI startup Platfora to boost analytics chops
A month after acquiring Zaption Inc. for its online learning platform, Workday Inc. is making another strategic startup buy. The HR automation giant this week signed an agreement to purchase a venture-backed analytics provider called Platfora Inc. that sells Apache Spark-powered business …
Salesforce buys monitoring startup Coolan to optimize its internal infrastructure
Providing cloud services on the kind of global scale that Salesforce.com Inc. does involves a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes. To try and ease the load on its IT division, the company this week acquired Coolan Inc., a San Mateo …
LinkedIn open-sources a speedy mobile cache touted as better than Apple’s
The latest open-source contribution from LinkedIn isn’t an analytics engine, server design or some other bleeding-edge backend technology for a change. Instead, the social media giant is releasing a caching system called Rocket Data that aims to help mobile developers improve the performance …