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Slack debuts new collaboration and developer tools to help make co-working more productive
Salesforce Inc.’s collaboration platform Slack announced a host of new product innovations today aimed at boosting team productivity via new ways to share and curate resources, hold informal meetings and automate workflows. Announced at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual customer conference in San Francisco, the innovations include a new feature called Slack Canvas that it says will ...
Salesforce is making sustainability more accessible with its new carbon credit marketplace
Salesforce Inc. is making it easier than ever for organizations to purchase carbon credits and offset their greenhouse gas emissions with the launch of its Net Zero Marketplace today. The idea is to make carbon credit purchases simple and transparent, so organizations can accelerate their climate change initiatives. Carbon credits are tradable permits or certificates ...
TDengine debuts cloud-based time-series data processing platform for IoT deployments
Taos Technology LLC, better known as TDengine, said today it’s launching a cloud-based version of its time-series data platform, known not surprisingly as TDengine Cloud. It’s a new version of its popular TDengine database that can be easily deployed and operated on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the ...
Classiq, whose software help developers write quantum algorithms, announces new funding
Quantum computing software startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. said today it has expanded its Series B funding round to $49 million thanks to a new investment by the Canadian-Israeli venture capital firm Awz Ventures. The company previously announced it had raised $36 million in its Series B through investors such as HSBC, NTT Finance and Intesa ...
Google rolls out cloud database innovations, including free trial instances for Spanner
Google Cloud today announced key updates to some of its most important database platforms, including a free trial for anyone looking to test Cloud Spanner, plus a new service for BigQuery called Datastream that makes it easier to obtain real-time insights. The announcements generally are aimed at doubling down on increasing the capabilities of cloud ...
Fortanix raises $90M to advance confidential computing-based data security
Cybersecurity startup and confidential computing pioneer Fortanix Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $90 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $122 million to date. Today’s Series C round was led by Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. GiantLeap Capital also participated, along with Foundation Capital, Intel ...
California slaps Amazon with lawsuit, accusing it of forcing sellers to sign ‘anticompetitive’ price agreements
California’s attorney general has slapped Amazon.com Inc. with a lawsuit that alleges the company is violating the state’s antitrust and unfair business practices laws by using its dominance of online retail to prevent rivals competing with it on price. Amazon has faced an increasing number of antitrust-related probes from government agencies across the world in ...
Arm unveils updated Neoverse CPU roadmap, targeting cloud, hyperscale and HPC workloads
British semiconductor firm Arm Ltd. today unveiled a revamped product roadmap with new processor designs that it says will provide a foundation for multiple kinds of workloads over the next few years. Arm’s roadmap sees the addition of Arm Neoverse V2, code-named Demeter, a new processor that’s expected to play a key role in data ...
Satellite propulsion system startup Morpheus Space raises $28M in funding
Electric spacecraft propulsion system startup Morpheus Space Inc. said today it has raised $28 million in a fresh round of funding. The Series A round was led by the space-exclusive venture capital firm Alpine Space Ventures and saw the participation of Morpheus Ventures plus existing investors Vsquared Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, Airbus Ventures, In-q-Tel, Pallas Ventures ...
SambaNova Systems gives its integrated AI hardware and software platform a massive performance boost
Artificial intelligence startup SambaNova Systems Inc. today announced a revamped version of its flagship DataScale system today, with a next-generation processor that it says massively enhances performance and provides support for much larger machine learning models than before. SambaNova is an extremely well-funded startup that has designed and built an integrated hardware and software platform for ...