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API development environment startup Postman raises $50M
Postman Inc., creator of the popular application programming interface development environment of the same name, is looking to build up some steam after landing a $50 million funding round led by Charles River Ventures. Nexus Venture Partners also participated in the Series B round, which brings its total amount raised to date to $57 million. ...
Google updates its educational tools for teachers
Google LLC is making some significant updates to its Google for Education learning suite today, adding new tools and service to help teachers streamline their grading workflows and find better apps to help with their classroom lesson plans. Google for Education is essentially a customizable version of Google’s G Suite product. It offers several Web applications ...
With Azure Bastion, Microsoft delivers private virtual machine access
Microsoft Corp. today announced a preview of its new Azure Bastion service, which allows companies to connect to Azure virtual machines via a private internet connection. The company said the managed service is an additional safeguard for security-conscious organizations that don’t want to connect to their Azure VMs via public internet connections, which can sometimes pose ...
Adobe’s stock on the rise as it reports record revenue
Creativity software firm Adobe Inc. saw its shares rise more than 4% in after-hours trading today after posting second-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The company, which sells the popular Photoshop image editing tool as well as a range of cloud marketing technology services, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.83 ...
MongoDB’s Atlas managed database deepens integration with Google Cloud
Google LLC is stepping up its partnership with database company MongoDB Inc., making that company’s managed database service available today on its cloud platform. MongoDB Atlas, as the service is called, is a fully managed cloud version of the company’s popular NoSQL database launched in 2016 that eliminates most of the heavy lifting involved in ...
Nvidia expands supercomputing infrastructure to support Arm-based chips
Computer graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. is paving the way for a new breed of supercomputer with the announcement that its artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure will soon support Arm-based central processing units. The company said early today that its CUDA-X AI and HPC libraries, graphics processing unit-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools ...
Intel launches Ignite accelerator to back Israeli AI startups
Intel Corp. is looking to expand its already significant presence in Israel with the launch Sunday of a new accelerator project there that aims to boost startups in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Called “Ignite,” the 20-week program will provide business and technical support to up to 15 Israeli startups. Intel won’t initially take any ...
U.S. chip suppliers are protesting the Huawei ban
American computers chip suppliers, including Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Xilinx Inc., have reportedly been lobbying U.S. government officials to lift a ban on equipment sales to Chinese technology firm Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The companies are said to be alarmed over the prospect of losing billions of dollars in sales to Huawei, ...
General Electric wants to sell its venture capital business to help pay off debt
General Electric Co. is looking to sell off its venture capital investment business, GE Ventures, which has a portfolio of more than 100 startups under its wing. GE is selling the business in order to help stave off its mounting debts, CNBC reported. The company is said to be in a “difficult financial position,” with ...
Alibaba reportedly files for Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $20B
China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has filed for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange that could launch as soon as the third quarter of this year. Bloomberg and Reuters today reported that “people familiar with the matter” said the company hopes to raise up to $20 billion from the listing. ...