Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Life sciences software firm MasterControl gets $150M in its first funding round in 30 years
MasterControl Inc., a decades-old company that sells quality and manufacturing software for the life sciences industry, announced its first outside funding today, closing on a $150 million Series A round led by Sixth Street Growth. The company revealed it had waited almost 30 years before seeking outside funds. It said it has grown profitably in ...
Solid earnings beat sends Adobe’s stock higher
Shares of Adobe Inc. moved higher in extended trading today after the design software firm reported earnings that topped expectations and offered a forecast for the next quarter and full year that matched analyst’s targets. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.60 per share, coming in ahead of ...
Infinity AI lands $5M in funding for its synthetic data generation tools
Synthetic data generation startup Infinity AI Inc. said today it’s hoping to expand its business after closing on a $5 million seed funding round led by Matrix. Founders and operators from companies that include Google LLC, Tesla Inc. and Snorkel AI Inc. also participated in the round. The startup is aiming to tackle one of ...
Google reveals key role in aiding secure U.S. Navy communications
Google LLC today revealed how its recently announced Google Public Sector division is directly assisting the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command, providing key information technology support to the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) in Yokosuka and Sasebo, Japan. The U.S. Navy has 50,000 sailors deployed across 100 ships ...
IBM partners with new Japanese chipmaker Rapidus on advanced chip production
IBM Corp. announced today that it’s entering into a new partnership with the fledgling Japanese semiconductor firm Rapidus Corp. to help it commercialize advanced two-nanometer chips. The partnership is part of a plan by the Japanese government to revitalize the country’s role in the chipmaking industry. Rapidus will be allowed to commercialize IBM’s two-nanometer manufacturing ...
US to add Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Tech and dozens of others to trade blacklist
The United States government is preparing to sanction 36 Chinese more companies by adding them to its so-called Entity List, a move that will severely limit their access to U.S. made technology and components. The plans, first reported by Bloomberg late Tuesday, cite a person familiar with the matter as saying that U.S. President Joe Biden’s ...
Tableau Software 2022.4 release adds external actions, allowing users to act on their data immediately
Salesforce Inc.’s popular data visualization platform Tableau Software has launched another major update aimed at boosting productivity for users and saving them time and money. Announced today, Tableau 2022.4 is a new release of the visual analytics platform that’s designed to help business workers see their data in a range of graphics and charts, so they can ...
Google Cloud’s PostgreSQL-compatible database AlloyDB now generally available
Following a seven-month preview, Google Cloud’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL service is finally being made generally available to all customers, the company said today. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service that’s aimed at companies looking to modernize their most demanding database workloads, the company explained. Announced in May, it’s built atop the ...
LexCheck, creator of AI-powered contract review software, raises $17M
Artificial intelligence-powered contract acceleration and intelligence startup LexCheck Inc. said today it’s ready to grow its platform after closing on a $17 million early-stage funding round. Mayfield Fund led the Series A round, though LexCheck didn’t name any other participants. The company said it will use the funds from today’s round to accelerate the delivery of ...
Meta shares Hasher-Matcher-Actioner tool for detecting and deleting terrorist content online
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, today said it’s open-sourcing a new piece of software that will allow other internet firms to prevent the spread of terrorist-related material, including violent and extremist images and videos, across the web. The software is known as the Hasher-Matcher-Actioner tool. It will be shared with other social ...