September 27, 2019
Google will soon open a cloud region in Poland
Google today announced its plans to open a new cloud region in Warsaw, Poland to better serve its customers in Central and Eastern Europe. This move is part…
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September 26, 2019
Battlefield vets StrongSalt (formerly OverNest) announces $3M seed round
StrongSalt, then known as OverNest, appeared at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2016, and announced a product for searching encrypted code, which remains unusual to this day.…
Read articleSeptember 25, 2019
Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations
With the EU’s sweeping GDPR privacy laws and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy ACT (CCPA), companies have to figure out how to deal with keeping private data private…
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Netdata, a monitoring startup with 50-year-old founder, announces $17M Series A
Nearly everything about Netdata, makers of an open-source monitoring tool, defies standard thinking about startups. Consider that the founder is a polished, experienced 50-year-old executive who started his…
Read articleSeptember 25, 2019
How founder and CTO Dries Buytaert sold Acquia for $1B
Acquia announced yesterday that Vista Equity Partners was going to buy a majority stake in the company worth a $1 billion. That would seem to be reason enough…
Read articleSeptember 23, 2019
Chef CEO does an about face, says company will not renew ICE contract
After stating clearly on Friday that he would honor a $95,000 contract with ICE, CEO Barry Crist must have had a change of heart over the weekend. In…
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Programmer who took down open-source pieces over Chef ICE contract responds
On Friday afternoon Chef CEO Barry Crist and CTO Corey Scobie sat down with TechCrunch to defend their contract with ICE after a firestorm on social media called…
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Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe
Google announced today that it was investing €3 billion (approximately US$3.3 billion) to expand its data center presence in Europe. What’s more, the company pledged the data centers…
Read articleSeptember 19, 2019
New Relic launches platform for developers to build custom apps
When Salesforce launched Force.com in 2007 as a place for developers to build applications on top of Salesforce, it was a pivotal moment for the concept of SaaS…
Read articleSeptember 18, 2019
Salesforce brings AI power to its search tool
Enterprise search tools have always suffered from the success of Google. Users wanted to find the content they needed internally in the same way they found it on…
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