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Google expands Business Messages partner ecosystem
Google LLC said today it’s expanding its Business Messages service that makes it easier for customers to connect to companies when they need support. Business Messages is an artificial intelligence-powered system released by Google Cloud. It loops in customers via text chats that can be launched from the places they normally seek answers such as ...
Masterschool raises $100M to tackle the world’s tech talent shortage
Education technology startup Masterschool said today it has closed on a $100 million round of funding as it looks to satisfy the seemingly unquenchable thirst for technology talent in the enterprise. Despite the big number, the raise is being billed as a “seed funding” round led by Group 11, together with participation from Target Global, ...
Tableau adds new data storytelling and AI capabilities to its rebranded cloud platform
Tableau Software LLC took the wraps off a new edition of its cloud-based data analytics and visualization platform today at its Tableau Conference. The company also previewed some upcoming capabilities that will arrive on Tableau Cloud later this year, and it talked about how it’s working to integrate its platform with the cloud applications of ...
Google Cloud sharpens its focus on open-source software security, zero trust, cloud governance and more
Google Cloud said today it’s doubling down on its concept of “Invisible Security” with the launch of an array of new security services. They’re aimed at helping enterprise customers to secure their software supply chains, adopt zero-trust security architectures, improve cloud governance and transform their security operations. “We’re wanting to package the Google magic and ...
Armed with $25M, Pangea Cyber debuts embedded security APIs for cloud-native app builders
Embedded security services provider Pangea Cyber Corp. is opening the doors to its business, emerging from stealth mode today armed with $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures. Pangea has developed what it says is a comprehensive portfolio of application programming interface-based security services that can be accessed via a ...
Lightbend launches Kalix application layer to simplify serverless and cloud-native development
Lightbend Inc. is making it easier for developers to build cloud-native applications with the launch today of Kalix, a new platform-as-a-service that serves as a unifying application layer in concert with the underlying serverless cloud infrastructure of modern applications. Lightbend, which has until now focused on tools that make serverless infrastructure viable for different kinds ...
Real-time analytics database firm Imply Data bags $100M in late-stage funding
Analytics-focused database startup Imply Data Inc. has reached “unicorn” status after closing on a $100 million late-stage round of funding that brings its value north of $1 billion. Today’s Series D round was led by new investor Thoma Bravo, with participation from OMERS Growth Equity and existing backers Bessemer Venture Funds, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla ...
Rigetti’s quantum computing roadmap gets pushed back amid supply crunch and higher costs
Quantum computing company Rigetti Computing Inc. revealed today that it’s pushing back by a year its plans to deliver on 1,000-qubit and 4,000-qubit systems. The company said in an updated technology roadmap that it will deliver a single-chip 84-qubit machine by next year, before launching a 1,000-qubit system in 2025 and a 4,000-qubit system in ...
Kubernetes startup Akuity raises $20M to take Argo Project to the next level
Kubernetes application delivery platform startup Akuity Inc. said today it has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding led by Lead Edge Capital and existing investor Decibel Partners. Akuity is a startup building developer tools that aim to scale the open-source Argo Project, which makes it easier to build and run applications ...
New Relic’s stock slips as it delivers wider-than-expected loss
Shares of the observability company New Relic Inc. fell in after-hours trading today after it delivered fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results that missed expectations and followed up with weak guidance. The San Francisco-based company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 24 cents per share, amounting to a net loss of $55.5 ...