February 11, 2019
Google Docs gets an API for task automation
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually…
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February 8, 2019
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 articleFebruary 7, 2019
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. The big question is, will the company exit…
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Google open sources ClusterFuzz
Google today announced that it is open sourcing ClusterFuzz, a scalable fuzzing tool that can run on clusters with more than 25,000 machines. The company has long used…
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Microsoft Azure sets its sights on more analytics workloads
Enterprises now amass huge amounts of data, both from their own tools and applications, as well as from the SaaS applications they use. For a long time, that…
Read articleFebruary 6, 2019
vArmour, a security startup focused on multi-cloud deployments, raises $44M
As more organizations move to cloud-based IT architectures, a startup that’s helping them secure that data in an efficient way has raised some capital. vArmour, which provides a…
Read articleFebruary 5, 2019
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. Luckily there are some…
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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…
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Databricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platform
Databricks, the company founded by the original team behind the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has raised a $250 million Series E round…
Read articleFebruary 4, 2019
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. It’s common to look at the stock…
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