Ron Miller
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As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC
NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the respective cities on the same day. → Read More
Zendesk just hired three former Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe execs
Today, Zendesk announced it had hired three new executives — Elisabeth Zornes, former general manager of global support for Microsoft Office, as Zendesk’s first chief customer officer; former Adobe executive Colleen Berube as chief information officer and former Salesforce executive Shawna Wo… → Read More
Boston and NY share high tech losses as Amazon and GE bail on same day
Boston and New York have been sporting rivals for decades, constantly fighting over bragging rights across all four major sports, but today the two cities had something in common neither was probably hoping for. → Read More
AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control
When you think about Infrastructure as a Service, you typically pay for a virtual machine that resides in a multi-tenant environment. That means, it’s using a set of shared resources. → Read More
Pinpoint grabs $16.5M Series A to bring data discipline to engineering
Sales and marketing are steeped in data to explain just how well they are doing, but engineering, the department charged with creating the products these departments sell has lacked the tools to measure engineering effectiveness. → Read More
Block Kit helps deliver more visually appealing content in Slack
Slack has become a critical communications tool for many organizations. → Read More
Elevate Security announces $8M Series A to alter employee security behavior
It’s well understood that many network breaches begin with phishing emails designed to trick users into giving hackers their credentials. They don’t even have to work to find a vulnerability, they can just waltz in the front door. → Read More
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle
When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knows. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. → Read More
Glide helps you build mobile apps from a spreadsheet without coding
The founders of Glide, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class, had a notion that building mobile apps in the enterprise was too hard. → Read More
PerimeterX secures $43M to protect web apps from bot attacks
We know by now that modern website attacks are typically automated, as armies of bots knock on doors until they inevitably find vulnerabilities and take advantage. → Read More
Carbonite to acquire endpoint security company Webroot for $618.5M
Carbonite, the online backup and recovery company based in Boston, announced late yesterday that it will be acquiring Webroot, an endpoint security vendor, for $618.5 million in cash. → Read More
Someone could scoop up Slack before it IPOs
Earlier this week, Slack announced that it has filed the paperwork to go public at some point later this year. → Read More
Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition
With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions. AI has helped automate some of that, but Gong. → Read More
Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough
I remember watching MIT professor Andrew McAfee years ago telling stories about the importance of data over gut feeling, whether it was predicting successful wines or making sound business decisions. → Read More
Google’s still not sharing cloud revenue
Google has shared its cloud revenue exactly once over the last several years. Silence tends to lead to speculation to fill the information vacuum. → Read More
Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps
Signal Sciences, an LA-based firm that helps customer secure their web applications, announced a $35 million Series C investment today. Leading Edge Capital led the round (which seems appropriate, given its name). → Read More
BetterCloud can now manage any SaaS application
BetterCloud began life as a way to provide an operations layer for G Suite. More recently, after a platform overhaul, it began layering on a handful of other SaaS applications. → Read More
Plaid expands financial service API to include all US banks
Plaid, developers of financial services APIs, has been helping developers connect an app to a major US bank account for several years, but today they expanded that API to include all US banks, including smaller banks that might not have as advanced technology. The product in question is called Auth… → Read More
After 5 years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has transformed more than the stock price
Five years ago today, Satya Nadella took over as CEO at Microsoft, and by most any measure has been wildly successful. → Read More
Chicago RPA startup Catalytic hauls in $30M Series B
Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is as hot as any enterprise technology at the moment, as companies look for ways to marry their legacy systems with a more modern flavor of automation. → Read More