Tableau beats revenue plan, but discounts and costs tank earnings
By Paul Gillin
Tableau shares fell after the business intelligence company reported almost no profits on better-than-expected revenue growth.
By Paul Gillin
The future of work from a Millennial’s perspective
What does the workplace look like for incoming millennials? Millennials, those born after 1980, are starting to enter the working world in earnest. What type of employers they are seeking, what is the nature…
Wikibon
Wikibon’s Burris outlines 7 reasons that IoT action will be at the edge
A debate has developed inside IT over whether Internet-of-Things (IoT) processing should take place mostly in central data centers, mostly in the cloud or at the edge where the data is generated. At the recent…
Taking HPE private could be a blessing – or a disaster
By Paul Gillin
Recent reports indicate the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. may be talking to private equity groups about selling its software business or even, if one report is to be believed, the entire company. Although the latter…
Wikibon
IBM reportedly negotiating to acquire retail automation startup Revel
Four years after selling its point-of-sale terminal business, IBM Corp. is reportedly having second thoughts. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg this week that the technology giant is looking to acquire a retail automation…
Big Data
Attic Labs debuts a new kind of database for a Big Data world
By Robert Hof
San Francisco startup Attic Labs today is announcing Noms, a new kind of decentralized, open-source database.
Townsquared raises $11M to expand social network for local businesses
By Eric David
Townsquared, an online community for small businesses, said today it has raised $11.05 million in a Series B funding round led by Intuit Inc. and Sierra Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $16.4 million.…
San Francisco-based, health monitoring smartwatch maker iBeat closes $1.5m seed round
By Duncan Riley
Health monitoring smartwatch maker iBeat, Inc. has announced it has closed an approximately $1.5 million seed round that was led by Maveron, Subtraction Capital, and Correlation Ventures that included Ali and Hadi Partovi, NFL offensive…
VMware adds low-cost entry to mobile device management line
By Paul Gillin
VMware Inc. is introducing a lightweight version of its enterprise mobile device management (MDM) cloud suite that’s designed to get basic management, security and installation functionality up and running in just a few minutes…
Particle courts enterprise IoT developers with cloud platform
By Paul Gillin
Internet-of-things (IoT) development platform Particle Industries Inc. is going after the enterprise with a cloud IoT platform that large companies can use to quickly build IoT products in what the company claims is as…