performance

Despite 2022’s volatility, VC funds performed better than you think

While it's unclear what the future will hold, funds near maturation were actually doing pretty well so far.

Q1 performance data shows maturing VC fund vintages aren’t doomed

New data shows that venture performance was down in the first quarter but not nearly as much as the stock market.

Roblox makes first acquisition with purchase of app performance startup PacketZoom

Fresh off a $150 million round of funding, kids’ gaming platform Roblox is making its first acquisition. The company says it’s acquiring the small startup PacketZoom, bringing its team an

Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones

UL, the company behind the tablet and phone performance benchmark app 3DMark, has delisted new Huawei phones from its “Best Smartphone” leaderboard after AnandTech discovered the phone mak

With iOS 12, Apple focuses on performance

Apple’s Craig Federighi announced that Apple was doubling down on performance with the upcoming release of iOS 12 at the WWDC event in San Jose, Calif. today. What’s more, he said, the co

AppDynamics update looks to measure impact of performance on business

It seems to have been the week for modern application performance monitoring tools to announce major updates. First, New Relic announced theirs on Monday and today AppDynamics followed suit with its o

Heroku Admits To Performance Degradation Over The Past 3 Years After Criticism From Rap Genius

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heroku.com/">Heroku</a>, the popular cloud application platform, may not be as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, <a target="_blank" href="http://rapg

With Growth Surging, Torbit Moves Towards Free To Help Web Businesses Turn Speed Into Revenue

In today's digital world, website performance and speedy load times are critical. This is now common knowledge. However, until recently, it's been tough to quantify the extent to which speed and perfo

Web App Performance Solution Tracelytics Raises $600K From Google Ventures, Battery & Flybridge

Application performance and analytics solution provider <a href="http://www.tracelytics.com/">Tracelytics</a> has just closed a seed round of $600,000 from Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partner

MacBook performance drops 37 percent without battery installed

Flickr’d Don’t bother using your MacBook or MacBook Pro without the battery installed unless you’re cool with a huge performance decrease. Gearlog notes that, in the process of doing

New Alienware rig makes my stomach hurt just thinking about how much it costs (it's cool, though)

If you really sit down and think about it, do you NEED rent money, a car, and food? Would you even miss those things if you had the new Alienware Area-51 ALX CFX (starting at $5,149)? If you’ve

Another 'Windows XP is better than Windows Vista' post

I won’t bore you with all the details of a recent XP-vs-Vista benchmarking test except to say that it involved Office 2007 productivity tasks, XP with Service Pack 3 Beta, and Vista with Service