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Microsoft will finally bury Internet Explorer for good in the coming months
Microsoft Corp. is finally retiring its ancient Internet Explorer browser, almost 27 years after it was first released. The company said today it’s withdrawing official support for IE 11, the most recent version of the browser, in favor of Microsoft Edge. The move marks the end of an era, though it’s a long time coming. Microsoft ...
DataStax raises $115M to grow its super-scalable, real-time Astra DB database
DataStax Inc., one of the biggest and best-known privately owned database companies, got a little bit richer today, closing on a $115 million round of funding that brings its valuation to $1.6 billion. Today’s private-equity round was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s growth equity business and included participation from RCM Private Markets, EDB Investments ...
InfluxData’s time-series database adds data replication to unify edge and cloud environments
Time-series database company InfluxData Inc. said today it’s adding a new feature called Edge Data Replication that enables more centralized business intelligence from widely distributed computing environments. The Edge Data Replication feature is available starting today and gives developers a way to collect, store and also analyze high-precision time series data within InfluxDB at the ...
Smart parking payment startup Metropolis raises $167M
Mobile commerce startup Metropolis Technologies Inc. is feeling richer today after closing on a $167 million round of funding that was co-led by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures. Dragoneer Investment Group, Eldridge Industries, Silver Lake Partners and UP Partners also participated in the Series B round. Metropolis has built a mobile commerce platform that combines ...
Canonical updates Ubuntu Core with support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial apps
The Ubuntu developer Canonical Ltd. today announced general availability of a new edition of Ubuntu Core, its fully containerized operating system for edge and “internet of things” devices. With the update, the operating system now supports real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications, the company said. Ubuntu Core is an OS that’s designed for low-powered devices. ...
Quantum computing service provider Quantinuum boosts its hardware to 20 qubits
Quantinuum Ltd., a startup that claims to be the world’s largest independent quantum computing company, today announced a major hardware upgrade that expands its System Model H1-1 platform to 20 fully connected qubits, making it possible to process quantum operations in parallel. The company said the H1-1 quantum machine’s computational capabilities have been “significantly bolstered” ...
Adobe Real-Time CDP delivers enhanced customer tracking tools as an alternative to third-party cookies
Adobe Inc. is updating its Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform offering with new capabilities that it says will help customers overcome plans by Google LLC to block third-party cookies. The company said today that Adobe Real-Time CDP has gained newly enriched capabilities around customer profiles and artificial intelligence-powered targeting to help brands deliver personalized experiences ...
Yellowbrick Data scales its cloud data warehouse across public clouds
Data warehouse provider Yellowbrick Data Inc. announced an updated version of its cloud platform today, saying it can scale more effectively as customer’s data needs grow. It’s also introducing what it says is a unique pricing model that offers customers more predictable costs. Yellowbrick offers both cloud- and on-premises-based data warehouses to enterprises, complete with ...
Splunk bolsters its big-data platforms with new security and observability tools
Big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced some major updates to the cloud-based and self-managed versions of its data platforms today. With the updated Splunk Cloud Platform and general availability of Splunk Enterprise 9.0, customers gain access to greater visibility that enables them to reduce costs, as well as new tools that enable deeper investigative analysis ...
Strong cloud growth powers another earnings beat for Oracle, sending stock higher
Oracle Corp.’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results elicited enthusiasm from Wall Street after it delivered profit and revenue that came in ahead of expectations, primarily thanks to its strong cloud growth. The database firm delivered a sharp increase in cloud license and on-premises license revenue, plus moderate gains in its cloud services and license support revenue, ...
