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Now that it’s a public company, Talend SA (Nasdaq: TLND) will focus on strengthening its balance sheet, filling in gaps in its portfolio through acquisitions and doubling down on what the company believes will be an explosive market for data integration software, …
AWS blows past $10B annual run rate as Amazon crushes estimates
Growth of Amazon Web Services revenue slowed in the second quarter, but still grew an impressive 58 percent, indicating that more vigorous competition has failed to put a dent in Amazon’s dominance of the infrastructure-as-a-service market. AWS pulled in $2.88 billion in …
Birst fine-tunes collaborative BI platform for supply chain use
Birst Inc. is extending its collaborative business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform outside the firewall with a new set of capabilities aimed at supply chain optimization. The extensions to Birst’s Networked BI platform are intended to let players in the supply chain …
Cisco midyear security report serves up mostly bad news
Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report, which was released today, paints an alarming picture of the state of security defenses, even as attacks proliferate and get more sophisticated and ruthless. The report, which is based upon data gathered from Cisco’s global network, …
Gridstore becomes HyperGrid, touts flexible cloud migration
Get ready for another “as-a-service.” Hyper-converged systems startup Gridstore Inc. said it has merged with application migration specialist DCHQ Inc. to form a new company called HyperGrid Inc. that plans to deliver what it calls the first hyper-converged infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Gridstore raised …
Will it integrate? Blendtec taps connectors for data mash-up
“Will it blend? That is the question.” Those words by Blendtec Inc. founder Tom Dickson (above) have kicked off each of the 146 (and counting) videos in the high-end blender maker’s phenomenally successful “Will It Blend?” video series. Each segment features Dickson …
3-D printing’s ‘Pied Piper’ foresees innovation surge as patents expire
The New York Times once described Duann Scott (@Duanns, below right) as “a Pied Piper for on-demand 3-D printing,” an analogy that pretty well sums up what Scott has been doing since he relocated to New York from his native Australia six …
What Brexit? SAP profits delight
It’s good to be SAP SE. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) leader rode what it called a “trifecta of double digit growth in software, cloud and operating income” to second-quarter results that beat analyst estimates. Earnings per share (EPS) came in at 82 …
Microsoft results impress with strong cloud growth
Not long ago, Microsoft’s failure to reach a Windows shipment goal would have sent the stock into the tank. But how times have changed. Microsoft stock barely moved in the wake of last week’s announcement that it would miss its goal of …
LinkedIn Sales Navigator boosts Gmail, Salesforce.com integration
LinkedIn Corp. is improving integration between its Sales Navigator prospecting tool and other popular desktop applications as well as adding a lead discovery feature to its mobile client. The company is deepening integration with Salesforce.com Inc.’s CRM system to better identify and automatically …