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Enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc is trying to make itself more useful to its customers with the acquisition today of a startup called AgileCraft LLC that sells tools for tracking business projects. Atlassian said the deal is valued at $166 million, with …
Pivotal Software takes a knock after missing on revenue guidance
Updated: Executives at Pivotal Software Inc. put on a brave face today despite seeing the company’s stock fall in after-hours trading thanks to guidance that came in lower than expectations. The software development platform maker had just closed out its first full …
Adobe delivers strong earnings but guidance falls short
Updated: Adobe Systems Inc.‘s shares fell Friday despite strong fiscal first-quarter financial results that beat expectations. The problem? Guidance for the next quarter that came up just short of estimates. The company, which sells software and services for creative artists and marketers, reported …
Oracle posts strong earnings, but cloud progress still slow
Updated: Oracle Corp.’s shares took a small hit late today even though the database and business software giant posted better-than-expected quarterly results and guidance. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 87 cents per share on revenue of …
Service mesh company Buoyant lands $10M to take on Google’s Istio
Open source service mesh company Buoyant Inc. is trying to take on Google LLC after landing a $10 million investment that was led by none other than Google’s venture capital arm GV. Benchmark and A.Capital also participated in the round, which brings Buoyant’s …
Multimodel database company ArangoDB lands $10M in funding
Database startup ArangoDB GmbH says it has relocated its headquarters to the U.S. after landing a $10 million Series A round of financing. The Series A round was led by Bow Capital, with participation from existing investor Target Partners, and brings the …
Apple reveals it acquired an AI startup called Laserlike, likely to improve Siri
Apple Inc. reportedly acquired a startup last year called Laserlike Inc., which built software that uses machine learning to search the web for information and deliver personalized results to users. According to a report in The Information today, Apple confirmed that the acquisition, unnoticed until now, …
Big-data firm Cloudera crashes on lower earnings and guidance
Updated: Big-data company Cloudera Inc. saw its stock take a beating late Wednesday after posting a wider-than-expected loss for the quarter just gone. The company, which sells software based on Apache Hadoop and related technologies for data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics …
MongoDB’s shares jump as it crushes earnings expectations
Update: Database company MongoDB Inc. crushed expectations today with blowout fourth-quarter earnings that sent its stock price soaring in after-hours trading. Several major technology firms have posted disappointing results in the current earnings season, but MongoDB went against the trend, easily beating …
IBM claims a quantum leap in machine learning
IBM Corp. researchers reckon they’ve come up with new algorithms capable of enabling advanced machine learning on quantum computers. In a paper published today on arXiv, a repository for non-peer-reviewed academic papers, IBM’s research team describes how it has created a “quantum …