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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Aiven raises $210M in late-stage funding to expand its open-source expertise
Open-source software champion Aiven Ltd. said today it has closed on a bumper $210 million Series D round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $420 million, at a valuation of more than $3 billion. Today’s late-stage round was led by …
Topping a raft of search improvements, Google Translate adds support for 24 more languages
Armed with a new artificial intelligence model, Google LLC is adding 24 more languages to its Google Translate app. The new supported languages, announced at the search giant’s I/O developer conference today, include dialects that are spoken by more than 300 million …
Google Maps is getting an ‘Immersive View’ that’s like flying a low-altitude drone
Google Maps is getting a new feature called Immersive View that lets users experience a kind of drone-level aerial view of some of the world’s best-known cities. Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said during his Google I/O 2022 keynote today that …
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a PostgreSQL-compatible database for mission-critical workloads
Google Cloud is looking to take on rivals such as Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. in the database arena with AlloyDB, a new, fully managed and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service for top-tier workloads. Announced today at the Google I/O virtual …
Pure Storage and Snowflake team up to offer rapid data analytics in the cloud
Pure Storage Inc. and Snowflake Inc. said today they’re working together to enable joint customers to take data that’s stored on-premises and analyze it in the cloud. Under the new initiative, companies that use Pure Storage’s arrays to store sensitive, on-premises data …