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Microsoft Corp. wants to support more standardization of open-source software licensing, so today it’s putting its weight behind the OpenChain Project as its latest platinum member. Microsoft joins other platinum members that include Google LLC, Arm Holdings Ltd. and Facebook Inc., as …
Google cuts out more Gmail spam with TensorFlow
Google LLC is beefing up Gmail’s anti-spam capabilities with new protections, powered by its machine learning software framework TensorFlow, that are designed to complement its existing algorithms. In a blog post today, Neil Kumaran, a product manager for Google’s Counter Abuse Technology …
IBM cloud lands big customers in the energy sector
IBM Corp. might not carry the same kind of clout in the public cloud as rivals such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but it’s managing to compete in specific niche industries where its unique artificial intelligence and data analytics …
UK newspaper The Telegraph goes all-in on Google’s cloud
Google LLC is highlighting some of the capabilities of its public cloud infrastructure after landing a major new customer: Telegraph Media Group Ltd., which publishes The Telegraph, one of the U.K.’s most popular newspapers. The Telegraph said today it’s migrating its entire …
Red Hat intros CodeReady Workspaces for Kubernetes-native container app development
Red Hat Inc. is trying to make life easier for developers who build their applications using software containers and manage them with Kubernetes. The company, which will soon be acquired by IBM Corp., today announced what it says is the industry’s first Kubernetes-native, …
Tableau Software beats earnings forecast as it switches to new accounting standard
Tableau Software Inc. reported fourth-quarter results today that beat Wall Street’s expectations on both profit and revenue, but its stock still fell slightly in after-hours trading. The business intelligence analytics software company’s shares were down more than 5.5 percent at one point …
Doubling down on data science, Databricks lands massive $250M round
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is topping up its war chest with a hefty $250 million late-stage round of funding. The Series E round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coatue Management, Microsoft Corp. and New Enterprise Associates also participated in the round, which …
Rancher Labs now supports multicluster Kubernetes apps
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. today added an important new capability to its platform, providing support for “multicluster” Kubernetes applications for the first time. The company said it’s the first platform of its kind to add the new capability, which delivers enhanced …
Slack rival Mattermost lands $20M to grow its DevOps-focused collaboration platform
Aiming to pinch business away from its larger rival Slack Technologies Inc., collaboration platform provider Mattermost Inc. today said it has landed $20 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from S28 Capital and Y Combinator. …
Data management startup Komprise raises $24M
Komprise Inc., a startup in the emerging data management market, is looking to grow its business after landing a $24 million round of funding that doubles its total capital raised to $42 million. Top Tier Ventures led the Series C round, which …