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Database startup Redis Labs rebrands as … just Redis
Database startup Redis Labs Inc. is dropping the “Labs” part from its name as part of rebrand, and will henceforth be known simply as “Redis.” The 10-year-old startup said the name change signals the maturation of a company that has recently become one of the hottest properties in the database management market, following its late-stage ...
Google announces the Allstar GitHub app for continuous enforcement of best security practices
Google LLC debuted the Allstar GitHub application today, enabling what it calls automated continuous enforcement of security best practices in GitHub projects. The new app works by enabling project owners on the GitHub code repository to check for security policy adherence, set desired enforcement actions and then continuously enforce those policies when they’re triggered, for ...
Unity buys remote desktop streaming app Parsec for $320M, its biggest acquisition yet
Unity Software Inc. underscored its ambitions to move beyond videogame development today with the news that it’s acquiring remote desktop provider Parsec Cloud Inc. in a $320 million deal. The acquisition, its biggest to date, came as the company reported strong second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s expectations. Notably, its revenue rose 48% from ...
Workday selects Google Cloud as a preferred cloud partner
Google LLC scored another key customer win for its cloud business today with the news that it’s partnering with Workday Inc., the financial and human capital management software provider. The deal sees Google become a preferred cloud partner for Workday across core industries such as financial services, healthcare and retail, with Google Cloud hosting those ...
DigitalOcean posts solid earnings beat as demand for developer cloud accelerates
Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. posted its first quarterly financial results today, beating Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported second quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 2 cents per share on revenue of $103.8 million, up 35% from one year ago. That was better than expected. Analysts had modeled break-even earnings ...
Datadog stock sees fat gains as analytics firm easily beats earnings forecasts
Shares in the data analytics and monitoring company Datadog Inc. gained more than 14% late today on the back of soaring revenue growth. The company reported a second-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 9 cents per share on revenue that surged 67% from a year ago, to $233.5 million. That helped ...
Dropbox’s revenue and customer base grows again, and its stock gains after-hours
Dropbox Inc., the cloud file-sharing company, saw its stock rise in extended trading as it delivered strong second-quarter financial results today and solid growth across several key performance metrics. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 40 cents per share on revenue of $530.6 million, up 13.5% from a year ...
MindTickle bags $100M funding for its role playing-driven sales readiness platform
So-called sales readiness technology provider MindTickle Inc. is running with the unicorns today after landing a $100 million Series E round of funding. The round was led by SoftBank with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan, NewView Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. It follows a previous $100 million raise led by SoftBank last November, ...
Qualys partners with Red Hat to secure OpenShift and CoreOS
Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. is joining forces with Red Hat Inc. to beef up security for enterprise Linux and Kubernetes deployments. In particular, Qualys will bring its Cloud Agent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS on Red Hat OpenShift, it said today. The move should help to better secure both systems, the company said. ...
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics provides more intelligence for customer service calls
Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its AWS Contact Center Intelligence offering with a new call transcription analytics tool that it said can generate more insights from customer conversations. Announced today, Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is a machine learning-powered conversation insights application programming interface. It’s meant to work with the existing Amazon Transcribe tool that’s ...