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IBM’s newest Cloud Pak offering brings automation to 5G network deployments
IBM Corp. is expanding its portfolio of automation software with a new offering for communications service providers that’s meant to help them to stand up and manage new 5G networks faster and more easily. The offering was announced at the Mobile World Congress 2021 event in Barcelona, where IBM also revealed it will partner with ...
Amazon launches AWS BugBust to make finding software bugs more fun
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to encourage developers to build better software with fewer bugs with the launch today of its global AWS BugBust competition. The idea is to get developers to compete to find and fix more than a million software bugs before the end of the year. Developers that find the most ...
Confluent IPO raises $828M and its stock soars on its first day of trading
Big-data company Confluent Inc. had a strong debut today as it entered the Nasdaq stock exchange, as its shares climbed 25% on their first day of trading. The company raised $828 million in its initial public offering as it sold 23 million shares at $36 each, above a projected range of $29 to $33. The ...
Tonkean, a business process automation startup aiming to build on RPA, lands $50M round
Yet more investor capital is pouring into the business automation market as startup Tonkean Inc.today announced a $50 million round of funding today. The Series B round was led by Accel and saw participation from Lightspeed Ventures, which led Tonkean’s $24 million Series A round in April 2020. Individual investors, including Atlassian Plc co-CEO Scott ...
Nvidia’s Vid2Vid Cameo AI brings 2D photos to life in video calls
Nvidia Corp. is using artificial intelligence to help ensure people will always look their best during a video call, even if they’re still in bed, having just woken up with a hangover. Vid2Vid Cameo is a new deep learning model that will soon be available within the Nvidia Maxine software development kit, a pretrained collection ...
Firebolt Analytics raises $127M to grow its superfast cloud data warehouse
Speedy cloud data warehouse startup Firebolt Analytics Inc. is looking like a very hot prospect indeed after landing $127 million in an all-equity round of funding. New investors Dawn Capital and K5 Global led the Series B round, with participation from angel investors and previous investors such as Zeev Ventures, TLV Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners ...
Dell’s PowerFlex software-defined storage offering adds support for Nvidia GPUs to power new AI workloads
Dell Technologies Inc. today is updating its software-defined storage offering Dell EMC PowerFlex with new automation capabilities, extended features for software containers and improvements to security and compliance. Dell EMC PowerFlex is a software-defined storage layer that pools storage resources across multiple nodes. It also allows customers to aggregate storage resources across a large set of ...
Cloud call center software startup Aircall pick up $120M in late-stage round
Call center software startup Aircall SE hit unicorn status today after raising $120 million in a late-stage funding round, just 13 months after it raised just over half that amount. The Series D round was led by the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and joined by existing investors DTCP, eFounders, Draper Esprit, ...
SingleStore says it’s the world’s first database to support analytical and transactional workloads
SingleStore Inc., the database startup formerly known as MemSQL, is transforming its product to address both analytical and transactional workloads. SingleStore’s relational database enables companies to process large volumes of information in real time. It has multiple use cases. An online retailer, for example, can use the database to analyze website visitors’ activity and detect ...
Vercel, creator of the Next.js React framework, raises $102M in fresh funding
Front-end application development platform startup Vercel Inc. announced today it has picked up $102 million in a new round of funding. Bedrock Capital and CRV led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Accel, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV, plus new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Capital. The ...