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Amazon.com Inc. founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has led a $15 million funding round in the British digital freight forwarding and supply chain finance startup Beacon Technologies Ltd. Freight forwarding is a trillion-dollar global industry, and Beacon wants to act as …
Baidu open-sources its Paddle Quantum machine learning toolkit on GitHub
Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has unveiled a new toolkit for quantum machine learning, known as Paddle Quantum. The toolkit, newly open-sourced Wednesday, comes with several quantum computing applications and is meant to be used by developers to build and train quantum …
Data storage provider Pure Storage beats earnings targets
Pure Storage Inc. saw its stock rise today after the data storage provider reported solid fiscal first-quarter results that topped expectations. The company, which sells a range of flash memory-based data storage hardware and software products, reported a loss before certain costs …
CRM giants Salesforce and Workday deliver strong earnings but lower outlooks
Customer relationship management software giants Salesforce.com Inc. and Workday Inc. pulled successful quarters out of the bag today, delivering first-quarter results that topped expectations. Nonetheless, the companies were forced to revise their outlook downward for the coming quarter, and the market reacted …
Mirantis announces first post-acquisition release of Docker Enterprise
Cloud software company Mirantis Inc. today released its first major update to the Docker Enterprise platform since acquiring it from its former owner Docker Inc. last November. The Docker Enterprise 3.1 release brings new features for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration software, as …
Box beats earnings forecast on strong demand for remote work services
Cloud storage company Box Inc. posted strong fiscal first-quarter results today, boosted by enterprise customers looking for secure remote work services to keep their operations up and running during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation …
Zuora’s latest platform release aimed at simplifying business workflows
Cloud subscription management services company Zuora Inc. is updating its software-as-a-service platform with new “pre-built Workflows” and “Data Query” capabilities in its latest release. The Zuora Central Platform is used by businesses to automate their’ subscription order-to-cash operations in real time. The …
Call center software startup Aircall raises $65M
French call center software startup Aircall SE looks likely to be one of the beneficiaries of the COVID-19 pandemic after raising $65 million in a round of funding that brings its total amount raised to north of $100 million. DTCP led the Series …
Gartner says personal device shipments will fall by 14% this year
Technology analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today it’s expecting a sharp fall in sales of personal devices such as personal computers, tablets and mobile phones this year. Although hardware sales have benefited to some extent from businesses and individuals buying more laptops to …
China’s Tencent to invest $70B in tech infrastructure
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings said Tuesday it’s planning to invest about $70 billion in information technology infrastructure over the next five years. The plan calls for investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cybersecurity. It follows a call …