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Cloud tax software company Avalara’s shares jump 87% on first day of trading
Cloud-based tax software company Avalara Inc. beat all expectations with its initial public offering Friday, raising $185 million as its share price jumped by 87 percent. The company priced its shares at $24 after hiking the price from an initial range of $19 to $21. Shares then opened at $35 as trading began, before closing ...
Adobe’s stock takes a knock despite strong earnings
Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. saw its share price take a hit late Thursday despite posting better-than-expected earnings for its second fiscal quarter. The company, best known for its creative design software products such as Photoshop, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.66 per share on revenue of $2.2 billion, up ...
Google launches its low-code software development tool App Maker
Google Inc. is formally entering the “low-code” software development game with the official launch of App Maker, a platform that allows unskilled workers to build their own apps without any coding skills. App Maker, launched in beta back in 2016, is designed to help software developers build and deploy apps to facilitate business processes and workflows ...
Salesforce integrates Marketing Cloud with Google Analytics
Salesforce.com Inc. has made good on a promise it made last year to integrate its Marketing Cloud with Google Inc.’s analytics platform. The company said at its Salesforce Connections event in Chicago Wednesday that it’s integrating Marketing Cloud with Google Analytics 360, allowing customers to combine data from both platforms into a single dashboard. The idea ...
Oracle’s new Internet Intelligence Map lets you check the health of the web
Oracle Corp. today is making a free tool available that people can use to keeps tabs on the health of the web. Available for anyone to use, Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map constantly tracks the state of the Internet in real-time, allowing people to see how events such as cyberattacks and natural disasters impact on connectivity in different ...
Samsung NEXT’s Q Fund aims to tackle AI’s toughest challenges
Samsung Electronics Ltd.’s early-stage startup accelerator Samsung NEXT is looking to secure a foothold for its parent company in the emerging field of artificial intelligence, announcing a new fund dedicated to AI startups. Samsung NEXT, launched in 2013 with a focus on emerging technologies, has already invested in a number of AI startups, including deep ...
Strangeworks lands $4M funding to teach developers quantum computing
Quantum computing startup Strangeworks Inc. is hoping to make the potentially revolutionary technology more accessible to developers after landing a $4 million seed funding round. Announced Tuesday, the round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Ecliptic Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, Lux Capital, BoxGroup and Amplify Partners. Austin, Texas-based Strangeworks, which was founded only last ...
VMware announces new Network Functions Virtualization platform for edge computing
Bidding to become a major player at the heart of telecommunications infrastructure for edge computing, VMware Inc. today announced the launch of its new vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0 infrastructure platform. Aimed at network carriers, the new platform is designed to facilitate 5G and distributed computing environments within multicloud telco networks. The release comes just after the ...
Taking on Nvidia and AMD, Intel says it will launch its first discrete graphics chips in 2020
Targeting rivals Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. today confirmed in a tweet that it’s entering the market for discrete graphics processing units, with its first products expected in 2020. The company didn’t provide any details except for the confirmation. Instead, it linked back to an earlier announcement about its hiring of ...
Google adds more devices to Android Enterprise Recommended program
Google Inc. is adding more devices to its Android Enterprise Recommended program, which establishes a set of best practices for smartphone makers that want to market those devices to business users. The company launched Android Enterprise Recommended back in February, detailing several common requirements for smartphone devices and services that are backed by a rigorous ...