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Microsoft delves deeper into IoT with Express Logic acquisition
Microsoft has never been shy about being acquisitive, and today it announced it’s buying Express Logic, a San Diego company that has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world. The companies did not share the purchase pric… → Read More
Y Combinator grad, Fuzzbuzz lands $2.7M seed round to deliver fuzzing as service
Fuzzbuzz, a graduate of the most recent Y Combinator class, got the kind of news every early-stage startup wants to hear when it landed a $2. → Read More
Salesforce is buying MapAnything, a startup that raised over $84 million
Salesforce announced today it’s buying another company built on its platform. → Read More
Airbase launches with $7M Series A to simplify spending control systems
Airbase is a startup with a plan to change the way you think about accounting around spending. Instead of multiple workflows, it wants to create a simpler one involving, well, Airbase. → Read More
Why it just might make sense that Salesforce.com is buying Salesforce.org
Yesterday, Salesforce .com announced its intent to buy its own educational/non-profit arm, Salesforce.org for $300 million. → Read More
Techstars celebrates 10 years in Boston and over $1B in graduate funding
Techstars - Boston is celebrating its tenth anniversary today. → Read More
Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft
Google Cloud held its annual customer conference, Google Cloud Next, this week in San Francisco. It had a couple of purposes. → Read More
Much to Oracle’s chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI cloud contract finalists
Yesterday, the Pentagon announced two finalists in the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process — and Oracle was not one of them. → Read More
Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds
Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in the last year. → Read More
Google Cloud takes aim at verticals starting with new set of tools for retailers
Google might not be Adobe or Salesforce, but it has a particular set of skills, which fit nicely with retailer requirements and can over time help improve the customer experience, even if that means just simply making sure the website or app is running, even on peak demand. Today, at Google Cloud N… → Read More
Google Cloud announces Traffic Director, a networking management tool for service mesh
With each new set of technologies comes a new set of terms. In the containerized world, applications are broken down into discrete pieces or micro services. → Read More
Salesforce and Google want to build a smarter customer service experience
Anyone who has dealt with bad customer service has felt frustration with the lack of basic understanding of who you are as a customer and what you need. → Read More
Google Cloud unveils new identity tools based on zero trust framework
Google Cloud announced some new identity tools today at Google Cloud Next designed to simplify identity Access Management within the context of the BeyondCorp Zero Trust security model. → Read More
Apigee jumps on hybrid bandwagon with new API for hybrid environments
This year at Google Cloud Next, the theme is all about supporting hybrid environments, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Apigee, the API company it bought in 2016 for $265 million, is also getting into the act. → Read More
Accenture announces intent to buy French cloud consulting firm
As Google Cloud Next opened today in San Francisco, Accenture announced its intent to acquire Cirruseo, a French cloud consulting firm that specializes in Google Cloud intelligence services. The companies did not share the terms of the deal. → Read More
Google is bringing two new data centers online in 2020
At Google Cloud Next today, the company announced it is bringing two brand new data centers online in the 2020 timeframe with one in Seoul, South Korea and one in Salt Lake City, Utah. → Read More
Google Cloud Run brings serverless and containers together
Two of the biggest trends in applications development in recent years have been the rise of serverless and containerization. Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced a new product called Cloud Run that is designed to bring the two together. → Read More
Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration
Slack’s goal of integrating enterprise tools in the chat interface has been a major differentiator from the giant companies it’s competing with like Microsoft and Facebook. → Read More
Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company the old fashioned way
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way. First it built a profitable company, then it went looking for funding to accelerate the growth. → Read More
Fleetsmith lands $30M Series B to grow Apple device management platform
Fleetsmith launched in 2016 with a mission to manage Apple devices in the cloud. It simplified an IT activity that had previously been complex with help from Apple’s Device Enrollment Plan. → Read More