Matthew Lynley
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Salesforce's next big thing is a major push to keep its data at the center of a market increasingly dominated by firms like Snowflake
Salesforce is letting users update their products instantly as it risks customers treating it as just one of many data points in Snowflake. → Read More
The quiet success of Tecton, a $900 million startup, has turned rivals Snowflake and Databricks into co-investors — and fanned a fierce debate over the future of AI
Snowflake and Databricks are both backing the largest startup in the nascent feature store space, sparking debate over the future of machine learning. → Read More
Insiders are predicting a giant wave of machine-learning acquisitions as valuations plummet and giants like Snowflake eye takeover opportunities
Investors and insiders who poured hundreds of millions into machine-learning startups now expect a big wave of acquisitions as the market sours. → Read More
Databricks and Snowflake just backed competing open-source data-lake technologies, sparking a new phase in the rivalry reminiscent of earlier open-source competitions
Databricks announced its making its key data-lake technology fully open source, posing a new front in its rivalry with big-data giant Snowflake. → Read More
Big tech firms like Meta and Apple are paying up to $200,000 for data engineers, one of tech's hottest new jobs
Responsibilities of data engineers can vary widely, but generally, they ensure all of a company's incoming data is in the right place and readable. → Read More
Google lost the battle for machine learning to Meta, insiders say. Now it's betting the future of its own products on a new internal AI project.
Google is pushing a new project to replace TensorFlow. But it will be a major challenge to unseat Meta's PyTorch, which has won over developers. → Read More
Microsoft is turning to popular $2 billion data science startup Hugging Face to court machine learning experts
Hugging Face is a data science startup that hosts some of the most-used machine learning models. Now, Microsoft is enlisting it to grow its cloud. → Read More
Protecting remote workers from cyberattacks requires a culture shift and new ways to guard against the 'weak link' of human behavior, experts say
Companies faced a different risk as part of the shift to remote work: building a new culture around security and compliance. → Read More
Inside the open-source proxy war that's emerged as an online battlefield between Russia and Ukraine, with counterattacks, awareness campaigns, and a ripple effect of software dysfunction
Some events playing out in open-source software mirror how the war is unfolding on the ground, and projects supporting Ukraine have been attacked. → Read More
Hugging Face is quietly raising new funding at a valuation as high as $2 billion as the popular AI startup builds on a key market that Snowflake is chasing
Hugging Face is now valued as high as $2 billion in a new round. It has built a large community in data science around its machine-learning models. → Read More
Read the 10-slide pitch deck no-code data analysis startup Enso used to convince SignalFire and Y Combinator to invest $16.5 million
Enso is building a way to make it easier to do data analysis without advanced SQL or Python skills, and won over investors like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures. → Read More
Snowflake is placing big bets to make its platform friendly for machine-learning experts as it tries to catch rival Databricks, even paying $800 million for a startup with little revenue
After ignoring Python, Snowflake is making an abrupt about-face by launching support for the language and buying Streamlit for $800 million. → Read More
Dropbox is crashing despite beating Wall Street expectations, announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving
Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify the $10 billion valuation it had hit in its rapid rise as a Web 2.0 darling. → Read More
Dropbox hires a new VP of product and VP of product marketing
After a largely successful IPO, Dropbox is adding another couple of hires today as it looks to continue its consumer-slash-enterprise growth playbook: bringing on a new VP of product in former CEO and president of Wealthfront Adam Nash; and a new VP of product marketing and global campaigns in Nama… → Read More
AI Chip startup Cerebras Systems picks up a former Intel top exec
While some of the largest technology companies in the world are racing to figure out the next generation of machine learning-focused chips that will support devices — whether that’s data centers or edge devices — there’s a whole class of startups that are racing to get there first. That… → Read More
Twilio came ahead of expectations and the stock is going nuts
Twilio today reported a positive quarter that brought it to profitability — on an adjusted basis — ahead of schedule for Wall Street, sending the stock soaring 16% in extended hours after the release came out. → Read More
Goodly looks to give companies student loan payments as an employee benefit
As employers duke it out over hiring the best possible candidates, especially ones coming out of school, they are starting to get a little bit more creative with their incentive packages — and that includes offering an option for paying down student debt. Goodly is a new startup that’s lookin… → Read More
Optic wants to help developers drop boilerplate code into their development flow
Stack Overflow and other various sites and tools have made it easy to Google search for solutions — or code snippets — to the easier parts of putting together an app or program for developers, but Aidan Cunniffe wants to take that one automated step further. That’s the premise behind Optic, w… → Read More
Square’s crazy run this year dodges any major snags with a decent Q2
While we’re talking about companies like Apple getting alarmingly close to a $1 trillion market cap, both of Jack Dorsey’s companies — Twitter (at least before its earnings last week) and Square — have been on considerable runs, and it looks like the latter won’t be coming to a ma… → Read More
Apple nears a $1 trillion market cap as it clears another quarter ahead of expectations
Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a $1 trillion company today after posting third quarter results that beat out what analysts were expecting and bumping the stock another few percentage points — which, by Apple standards, is tens of billions of dollars. The company’s stock is up … → Read More