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Market intelligence startup Crunchbase closes $30M round
Two and a half years after last raising capital, market intelligence startup Crunchbase Inc. today announced that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by Omers Ventures. Omers Ventures is the eponymous startup investment arm of one of Canada’s biggest pension funds. Other participants in the Series C round included Emergence Capital Ventures, ...
Google expands cloud ecosystem with broad HCL consulting partnership
Google LLC has an ecosystem of partner firms that make it easier for enterprises to adopt its cloud platform by providing professional services such as application migration and security monitoring. Today, the company announced a broad alliance with outsourcing giant HCL Technologies Ltd. that will strengthen this element of its go-to-market strategy. India-based HCL is ...
Google Cloud gets more advanced data protection features
Data storage is not the most glamorous topic in the world of cloud platforms, but it’s a core building block that underpins every other solution infrastructure-as-a-service providers offer. As a result, leading players such as Google LLC are actively working to maintain an edge in this area. The technology giant today announced new features for ...
Atlassian celebrates 50M Trello users with new AI automation, templating features
Atlassian Corp. Plc. today revealed that its Trello to-do tracker for teams has passed 50 million registered users, a milestone it’s marking by releasing a set of new time-saving features. Trello became part of Atlassian’s product portfolio through a $425 million acquisition in 2017. The service enables users to post outstanding tasks to a team ...
IoT startup Particle reels in $40M round co-led by Qualcomm
Particle Industries Inc., a supplier of hardware and software for enterprise “internet of things” projects, today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding. The round was led by Qualcomm Inc.’s venture capital arm and Energy Impact Partners, an investment firm that bets on startups on behalf of a consortium of major utilities. More ...
Amazon rolls out free grocery deliveries for Prime members
Amazon.com Inc. is once again upping the ante against its traditional brick-and-mortar rivals. The company today made its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service free in more than 2,000 cities throughout the U.S, removing the $15 monthly subscription required before. But consumers will still have to sign up for the online retailer’s Prime membership program to ...
Embracing a cloud-inspired business model, NetApp launches new flash arrays
NetApp Inc. today unveiled new flash storage arrays and a pricing model aimed at simplifying hardware procurement for information technology departments. It’s the pricing model, dubbed Keystone, that NetApp Chief Executive George Kurian (pictured) chose to highlight in a CNBC interview ahead of the announcement at NetApp’s annual Insight conference in Las Vegas. Keystone gives enterprises more ...
Datameer raises $40M in fresh funding to streamline enterprise analytics projects
Datameer Inc., an analytics startup whose software is used by the likes of Thomson Reuters Corp. and Deutsche Bank AG, today announced that it has bagged a $40 million funding round led by ST Telemedia. The Singaporean fund also led Datameer’s previous $40 million raise back in 2015. It was joined by a number of ...
Google reportedly makes buyout offer for smartwatch maker Fitbit
Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. is interested in acquiring Fitbit Inc., sources close to the matter told Reuters and CNBC today. Negotiations between the companies are said to have advanced to a point where the search giant presented a concrete buyout bid to Fitbit. The tipsters didn’t say when the proposal was made, nor how ...
CRV leads $40M round into cloud networking and security startup Aviatrix
Cloud management startup Aviatrix Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised a $40 million funding round led by Charles River Ventures to launch a new growth push. Five-year-old Aviatrix will use the capital to add staff across its sales, product development, customer support and other core teams. The investment comes about two months after ...