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Ambitious data warehouse startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today said it has landed a second chunky funding round, barely three months after it emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in financing. This time around it has raised $48 million in a Series B round …
Baidu creates the world’s first simultaneous translation system
Baidu Inc.’s advances in artificial intelligence often go unheralded next to the likes of Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. But the company is actually one of the leaders in the field, having developed its own specialized chip for AI workloads, an operating …
HashiCorp updates its infrastructure automation suite for hybrid clouds
Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. is using its HashiConf event this week in San Francisco as a launchpad for a number of new products and updates aimed at helping companies better manage their multicloud information technology deployments. HashiCorp specializes in automating the increasingly …
Tableau users can now query their data in natural language
Software makers these days are all about providing tools that can help ordinary business workers make more sense of their company’s data and the insights this can generate. Tableau Software Inc., one of the leading data analytics firms around, is no different in …
Rookout adds breakpoints to Kubernetes, making container apps easier to debug
Rapid debugging tools startup Rookout Inc. is bringing its capabilities to Kubernetes, meaning that developers who use software containers to build their applications can locate and fix any problems with their apps more easily. Rookout’s main focus up until now has been …
At OpenWorld, Oracle debuts new AI-powered cloud app services
Oracle Corp. is putting software as a service at the forefront of its cloud strategy as it kicks off its annual Oracle OpenWorld conference today in San Francisco with a number of important updates to its cloud application portfolio. The updates leverage Oracle’s …
Micron plans to buy out Intel’s share of their 3D XPoint memory chip joint venture
Micron Technology Inc. said Thursday it’s taking an option to buy out Intel Corp.’s share of their flash memory joint venture company IM Flash Technologies in a deal worth $1.5 billion. IM Flash, established in 2005, is the world’s only producer of 3D …
Samsung begins mass-producing next-gen chips built using extreme ultraviolet light
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today it’s starting mass production of semiconductors built with its 7-nanometer Low Power Plus process after finally perfecting the technology. Samsung’s 7nm LPP process technology is significant because it’s the first in the world to use extreme …
Despite beating earnings projections, Atlassian’s stock drops again
Enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc struggled to brush off investor concerns relating to its profitability, despite posting fiscal first-quarter financial results that beat market expectations. The company, which sells a range of collaboration, project management and productivity software for enterprises, reported …
Incorta lands another $15M to push its streamlined data analytics platform
Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. has won the backing of yet another high profile tech giant, announcing today that it’s expanding its latest funding round with another $15 million from M12, the venture capital arm of Microsoft Corp., and Telstra Ventures. The additional …