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TestFit lands $20M to expand its real estate feasibility analytics software
TestFit Inc. has become the latest entrant in the booming market for real estate and construction technology to raise significant funding. The Dallas-based company today announced a $20 million Series A financing round to develop its real estate feasibility software. That brings total funding for the six-year-old venture to $22 million. TestFit’s building configurator helps ...
Oracle tightens Azure ties with no-cost database interconnect service
Oracle Corp. is broadening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. in an announcement today of new services aimed at blurring the line between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure allows Microsoft customers to provision, access and monitor Oracle database services on OCI from within the Azure console. They ...
IBM earnings show solid growth but stock slides anyway
IBM Corp. beat second-quarter earnings estimates today, but shareholders were unimpressed, sending the computing giant’s shares down more than 4% in early after-hours trading. Revenue rose 16%, to $15.54 billion in constant currency terms, and rose 9% from the $14.22 billion IBM reported in the same quarter a year ago after adjusting for the spinoff ...
StarRocks’ real-time analytics engine moves to the cloud
The red-hot market for real-time analytics in the cloud just got another entrant with StarRocks Inc.’s announcement today of a cloud-native version of its SQL online analytics processing database engine. StarRocks Cloud is a fully managed software-as-a-service version of the platform the company developed two years ago and released under an open-source license. It’s based ...
Scribe Security rolls out code integrity validator for software supply chains
Scribe Security Ltd. said today that it has released a key component of the suite of tools it is building to ensure software supply chain security. Scribe Integrity is a code integrity validator that authenticates open-source and proprietary source code created with the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. It provides additional chain-of-custody visibility that developers can ...
Endpoints are a growing security problem, survey says
Nearly half of the endpoint devices corporations manage are at risk because they’re no longer on the information technology organization’s radar or critical software is outdated, according to a survey released today. The survey, by endpoint management firm Adaptiva Corp. and conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC, says that’s despite the $4.25 million the average enterprise ...
Major Canadian internet outage attributed to router glitch
Internet and wireless service from Rogers Communications Inc. are almost fully back online following a 19-hour outage that began early Friday morning and disrupted banking, transportation, cell phone and even some 911 emergency services in Toronto and parts of eastern Canada. Rogers, which is Canada’s largest telecommunications provider, said service had been restored to the ...
Capital One sees win-win in selling software built on Snowflake cloud
From General Electric Corp. and Xerox Corp. to Radioshack Corp., PerkinElmer Inc. and Sears Holding Corp., the history of computing is littered with companies that were very good at using technology but not as good at making and selling it. Capital One Financial Corp. intends to buck that trend. Cloud co-development, it believes, has altered ...
Canadian internet outage disrupts phones, 911 calls and financial services
Canadian telecommunications giant Rogers Communications Inc. suffered outages across its nationwide network today, silencing millions of wireless phones and disrupting internet connections to homes, automatic teller machines and even some 911 emergency lines. Customers began reporting lost connectivity as early as 4 a.m. EDT, according to the Wall Street Journal. At 3:20 p.m., the company ...
Gloat raises $90M Series D to build its internal talent marketplace
Gloat Inc., developer of an internal talent marketplace platform, today said it has raised $90 million in a late-stage Series D round that brings the company’s total funding to more than $192 million. Gloat’s “workforce agility” platform combines a talent marketplace with artificial intelligence-powered technology that analyzes employees’ skills at large scale and helps managers ...