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Artificial intelligence-powered sales software company Clari Inc. said today it has raised $60 million in a new round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures. New investor Madrona Venture Group and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Tenaya Capital also participated in …
GitHub vows to keep dealing with ICE despite employee backlash
GitHub Inc. is facing a backlash from its own employees after insisting it will renew a $200,000 contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, despite having concerns over some of its policies. In an open letter sent to The Washington …
SUSE ditches OpenStack to focus on applications
Linux company SUSE Group is killing off its OpenStack Cloud product, stopping development in order to focus more on application delivery. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is the company’s distribution of the open-source OpenStack platform that provides a framework to create and manage both …
IBM and MIT break new ground in video recognition model training
IBM Corp. has teamed up with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a new method for training “video recognition” deep learning models more efficiently. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to replicate how the human …
Nutanix and HPE team up on hybrid cloud management
Data storage company Nutanix Inc. is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. to provide an alternative to Dell EMC and VMware Inc. when it comes to hybrid cloud management. The companies announced today at the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the …
Arm aims to make it easier to customize its low-powered processor chips
British chipmaker Arm Ltd. today said it’s adding an “Arm Custom Instructions” feature set to its latest Armv8-M architecture. The idea is to give customers a way to add special instructions for specific embedded and “internet of things” applications to its central …
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud service in preview
Microsoft Corp. and Pivotal Software Inc. are making it easier for developers to build microservices-based applications atop the Spring Boot framework. The companies today launched a private preview of a new service called Azure Spring Cloud. It’s a fully managed and production-ready …
‘Headless’ content management system firm Contentstack raises $31.5M
Content management system provider Contentstack LLC is hoping to build on its recent momentum after raising $31.5 million in a new funding round. The Series A round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital. Contentstack’s …
Samsung’s profits ‘bottom out’ on low demand for its memory chips
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it’s expecting to report third-quarter profits of 7.7 trillion won ($6.4 billion) on revenue of 62 trillion won at the end of the month. The profit forecast is well above market expectations of 6.99 trillion won, but …
Samsung announces 12-layer packaging technology for computer memory chips
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it has managed to squeeze an extra four layers onto its current eight-layer High Bandwidth Memory-2 products. High Bandwidth Memory-2 is a kind of memory interface used in 3D-stacked dynamic random access memory for graphics processing …