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PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability
PlanetScale, the serverless database company founded by the co-creators of the Vitess open source project that powers YouTube, today announced that it has raised a $50 million Series C funding round l
Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR
Qualcomm today launched a new developer platform for building head-worn augmented reality experiences: the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. The only supported hardware for the platform is curr
Cascade Labs raises $5.3M for its no-code data automation platform
Cascade Labs helps operations teams automate their data workflows. Using the company’s no-code tools, teams can pull in data from their favorite sources, transform it as needed, analyze it and t
Propelo raises $12M for its AI-driven engineering excellence platform
The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software development processe
WhyLabs raises $10M Series A for its AI observability platform
WhyLabs, a machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute last year, helps data teams monitor the health of their AI models and the data pipelines that fuel them. Last year, the sta
GitHub gets a new CEO
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman is stepping down from his role on November 15 to become the Chairman Emeritus of the Microsoft-owned service. Thomas Dohmke, who only recently became GitHub’s chief produ
Merge raises $15M Series A for its B2B integrations platform
Merge, an integrations platform that focuses on B2B use cases, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Addition, with participation from existing investor NEA, w
Lumigo raises $29M for its cloud-native application monitoring platform
Lumigo, a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A funding round led by Redline Capital. Wing Venture Capital and Vertex Ve
Microsoft launches Google Wave
Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave, the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered in 2010. Maybe we should’ve seen this coming.
Microsoft launches Azure Container Apps, a new serverless container service
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced the preview launch of Azure Container Apps, a new fully managed serverless container service that complements the company’s existing container
Microsoft Teams gets 3D animated avatars, because metaverse
Microsoft wants a piece of the metaverse, too, so at its Ignite conference today, the company announced 3D avatars for those Teams meetings where you don’t want to be on camera. Those animated p
Microsoft brings JavaScript to Excel
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom da
Microsoft’s new Azure OpenAI Service brings GPT-3 to (a few) more developers
Microsoft today announced the launch of the Azure OpenAI Service, which, as the name implies, makes OpenAI’s machine learning models available on the Azure platform. Specifically, that means GPT
Microsoft Azure wants to make working with data on its platform easier
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced a number of new features for its Azure data platform. These range from a first preview of the 2022 edition of its venerable SQL Server line to updat
Microsoft Azure expands its hybrid and multi-cloud reach
Microsoft Azure, just like its competitors, launched a number of tools in recent years that allow enterprises to use a single platform to manage their virtual machines and containers across clouds and
Azure gets a Chaos Studio
Resorting to chaos may not sound like a sound engineering method, but chaos engineering is quickly becoming a standard way to test complex systems before real-world outages put those systems to a test
Magnify raises $6M for its post-sales orchestration platform
In many companies, post-sales can be a bit of a haphazard process, with customer success, marketing and product teams all trying to figure out how to provide the best service to new and existing custo
OctoML raises $85M for it for its machine learning acceleration platform
OctoML, a Seattle-based startup that helps enterprises optimize and deploy their machine learning models, today announced that it has raised an $85 million Series C round led by Tiger Global Managemen
Atlys raises $4.25M to make visa applications faster and easier
International travel is slowly opening up again, but that also means business and leisure travelers alike will once again have to think about visa restrictions as they take to the air. Nobody has ever
Google announces Android 12L, a feature drop for large-screen devices
Google today announced a preview of Android 12L, which may sound like a new version of Android, but Google calls it “a special feature drop that makes Android 12 even better on large screens.