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Call tracking and conversational analytics platform provider Invoca Inc. said today it has raised $56 million in a new round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to $116 million. Existing investor Upfront Ventures and new investor H.I.G. Growth Partners co-led the …
Atlassian acquires Jira automation startup Code Barrel
Business productivity software company Atlassian Corp. Plc. said today it’s buying a company called Code Barrel Pty Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Code Barrel sells a popular automation tool for Atlassian’s project tracking software Jira, which enables users at more than 6,000 …
Pendo claims ‘unicorn’ status after bagging $100M in new funding
Software application optimization company Pendo.io Inc. is the latest tech unicorn after announcing today it has raised an even $100 million in a late-stage round of funding. The Series E round brings Pendo’s total amount raised to $206 million and sets a valuation …
Microsoft unveils two open-source projects for building cloud and edge applications
Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced a couple of new application development tools aimed at making life easier for cloud developers. The new projects include the Open Application Model, which is a specification for building cloud-native apps on Kubernetes, and Dapr, a portable event-driven …
Despite Red Hat boost, IBM misses revenue targets
IBM Corp. narrowly missed Wall Street estimates on revenue as it reported third-quarter results today, blaming the shortfall on a weakness in some European markets that hurt sales within its Global Technology Services Unit. The company’s shares fell more than 5% in …
Facebook makes big advances in AI reasoning and machine translation
Facebook Inc. is using its @Scale conference today to provide an update on its progress in artificial intelligence research. The social media company is open-sourcing a new “AI reasoning” platform and providing some updates on its research into machine translation. It’s part of a …
Google debuts Security Health Analytics for its cloud platform
Google LLC today launched a new cloud security service that aims to help ensure its customer stay in compliance with any regulations they need to adhere to. Security Health Analytics is a security service that integrates with Google’s Cloud Security Command Center. …
Open-source Delta Lake project moves to the Linux Foundation
Databricks Inc.’s Delta Lake today became the latest open-source software project to fall under the banner of the Linux Foundation. Delta Lake has rapidly gained momentum since it was open-sourced by Databricks in April, and is already being used by thousands of organizations, …
Red Hat piles up more developers tools in OpenShift 4.2 release
Red Hat Inc. today added some new developer client tools and local development capabilities to its OpenShift container application platform aimed at making software developers more productive. The new tools include ready-to-use OpenShift developer services for Service Mesh, Serverless and Pipelines, as well …
Intel buys Pivot Technology’s Smart Edge platform
Intel Corp. said today it has agreed to acquire the Smart Edge platform from information technology infrastructure provider Pivot Technology Solutions Inc. The deal is meant to help Intel fulfill its vision of becoming a leader in the emerging edge computing business. “This transaction …