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Startup Kong Inc.’s latest funding round serves to highlight the massive potential for the application programming interface management services it sells. The company has just raised $43 million in a Series C round of funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from …
Microsoft, Adobe and SAP announce plans to accelerate Open Data Initiative
Microsoft Corp. today revealed more details about its plans for the Open Data Initiative it launched with its partners Adobe Inc. and SAP SE during its Ignite IT Pro conference last September. At the time the ODI was launched, the companies said the …
Lyft ups price target for its oversubscribed IPO
Ride sharing firm Lyft Inc. is planning to boost the price range of its initial public offering as investors scramble to grab a share of the promising company. Reuters reported that Lyft, which competes against the much larger and also IPO-bound Uber …
Cloudera steps up its edge data game with new management tools
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. today announced its first new product since the completion of its merger with former rival Hortonworks Inc., targeting workloads at the so-called network edge. Edge data generally refers to information that’s created by “internet of things” devices and sensors. …
Adobe and Microsoft announce data sharing experience for marketers
Adobe Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are strengthening their existing relationship with a deeper product integration that suggests both companies are gunning for Salesforce.com Inc. All about sales and marketing, the integration announced today will see the companies share data from platforms such …
Samsung issues another profit warning amid weak demand for memory chips
Amid a decline in prices for memory chips and slowing demand for display panels, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today issued another profit warning, saying Monday it’s likely to miss its targets for the first quarter of 2019. The surprise announcement is the latest …
Apple/Qualcomm legal ruling could result in US iPhone ban
A fresh ruling in Apple Inc.’s ongoing legal tussle with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. could result in some iPhone models being banned from the U.S. In a ruling today, International Trade Commission Judge MaryJoan McNamara found Apple guilty of infringing on two of Qualcomm’s …
Adobe’s customer experience management platform now generally available
Adobe Inc. is updating its cloud-based customer experience management tools with the launch into general availability of its Adobe Experience Platform. Called Adobe Experience Platform, it’s intended to break down data silos across large organizations, enabling them to use that information to create …
Salesforce partner Vlocity raises $60M in Series C funding round
Salesforce.com Inc. partner Vlocity Inc. is getting another dose of venture capital, raising $60 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, with participation from new investor Bessemer Venture Partners and existing strategic …
Kubernetes 1.14 release adds support for Windows containers in production
Red Hat Inc. today announced the latest release of Kubernetes, adding support for containers running on Windows nodes. Kubernetes 1.14 therefore elevates Microsoft Corp.’s operating system to a first-class citizen in container environments, which are used to build software applications that can run …