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Sapphire Ventures raises $1B to fuel startup investments
Sapphire Ventures LLC has come a long way since spinning out of SAP SE in 2011. The former corporate investment arm, based in Palo Alto, CA, now ranks as one of the most prolific…
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SAP launches Build, a cloud-based tool for prototyping enterprise apps
There’s much more to software development than just writing code. Application teams must also create a fine-tuned interface for every project if they want users to take full advantage of its features, a task…
HPE opens up ArcSight platform, courts DevOps practitioners
By Paul Gillin
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE)’s announced plans to spin off its enterprise security software business to Micro Focus International plc didn’t stop the company from flooring its Protect user conference this week or making a…
IBM expands enterprise mobility management to more regions
By Collen Kriel
IBM today announced the delivery expansion of its mobile security-as-a-service platform via the IBM Cloud. The company will offer its enterprise mobility management platform, MaaS360 in France and India, and will be expanding further…
Udacity joins with Mercedes, Nvidia to offer self-driving car nanodegree for engineers
By Collen Kriel
The competition is constantly increasing between automakers and various tech companies to develop self-driving cars and so too is the technology advancing at a rapid pace. As more and more companies enter the growing…
Evernote to take up residence in Google’s cloud
Evernote has said it will migrate its entire infrastructure onto Google’s Cloud Platform. The deal is a big win for the search giant’s effort to make headway against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure,…
VMware offloads vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking business
VMware Inc. has said it’s dumping its vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking software, which is the financial component of its vRealize management suite, just five years after it first acquired it. Private investment firm Skyview…
Microsoft to launch Azure Service Fabric on Linux this month
Microsoft has announced it will release a Linux flavor of its Service Fabric cloud service into public preview later this month. The service was first launched in preview on Azure last March, and the…
Adblock Plus is now dictating the business of online advertising
To be or not to be is evidently not a position that Adblock Plus, the internet’s self-proclaimed heroic ad-blocking machine, feels too concerned with. While the German-made content-filtering browser extension may be essentially in the business…
SAP-owned Concur acquires online travel startup Hipmunk
By Duncan Riley
SAP SE-owned enterprise travel and business expense management firm Concur Technologies has acquired online travel startup Hipmunk Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2010, Hipmunk offers a travel search site that aims to…