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Adobe Inc. delivered fiscal second-quarter results that beat expectations today, but lower guidance for the next quarter and full year sent its stock down in after-hours trading. The company reported net income rose 6% from a year ago, to $1.18 billion. That helped …
Workflow automation startup airSlate raises $51.5M as it extends collaboration with UiPath
The workflow automation platform provider airSlate Inc. has topped up its war chest with a $51.5 million round of funding led by G Squared, bringing its valuation to more than $1 billion. In addition, airSlate today announced a strategic partnership with the …
Meta’s AI researchers are teaching robots to navigate physical worlds without maps or training
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence unit said today it has made rapid progress in its efforts to teach AI models to navigate through the physical world more easily and with less training data. The research could dramatically reduce the time it takes …
Finout launches with $14M in funding to help companies clean up cloud expenditure
FinOps startup Finout Ltd. stepped into the limelight today, announcing it has just closed a $14 million early-stage funding round that brings its total amount raised to date to $18.5 million. Finout said today’s Series A round was led by Team8 Capital …
Palantir’s Foundry big-data service now available on Google Cloud
Palantir Technologies Inc. said today it has made its big-data-crunching platform Foundry available on Google Cloud Platform and the Google Cloud Marketplace, giving more companies the opportunity to synthesize information for business operations. The formerly very secretive company built Foundry as a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …