Salesforce has named David Schmaier as its new chief product officer. He joined last year via its $US1.3 billion acquisition of Vlocity, which makes software for specific industries. Schmaier’s new role shows Salesforce is focused on growing its industry specific tools. Got a tip? Contact this reporter via email at […]

Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $US43.1 billion on Tuesday afternoon. Microsoft’s stock price was up nearly 4% in after-hours trading after the release. Microsoft doesn’t report revenue for its Azure cloud, but said revenue growth was up 50%. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Microsoft reported earnings for the […]

Air Force veteran Jerome Hardaway left the military after five years of service in 2009 and had trouble finding the job. The job market is already tough for veterans, and the recession further impacted the job market. Hardaway taught himself how to code and was able to find a job, […]

Amazon Web Services reported $US11.6 billion in revenue for the third quarter, up about 29% from the same quarter last year. A re you an Amazon Web Services employee? Contact this reporter via the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-425-344- 8242) or email ([email protected]). Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. […]

Business Insider selected the top 10 people transforming enterprise tech in the North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. Okta chief product officer Diya Jolly, Cloudflare COOMichelle Zatlyn, Appier COOWinnie Lee, Quantexa CEO Vishal Marria, and Red Points CEO Laura Urquizu gathered together for a virtual roundtable. The execs discussed […]

Zoom is introducing OnZoom, a new way to host events – free and paid – using the popular videoconferencing tool. Zoom has come to be used to host all kinds of events amid the pandemic, from board meetings and conferences to fitness classes and concerts. The new OnZoom platform includes […]

Shares of the big data company Palantir began trading on Wednesday via a direct listing. The New York Stock Exchange established a reference price of $US7.25 per share, valuing the company at about $US16 billion ahead of its official debut. Palantir has yet to become profitable, raising questions from investors. […]

The online coding bootcamp Lambda School announced a $US74 million Series C round of funding, TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden first reported Friday. Lambda School has also received approval to operate from the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE), over a year after being fined and ordered to shut down by […]

On Tuesday, the Australian DevOps startup Buildkite announced $US28 million in fresh funding, bringing its valuation to $US200 million. Buildkite builds continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools that help developers release code faster and more often, and it competes with Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, and others. Buildkite CEO and […]

Australian software company Atlassian announced Friday that it will no longer require its employees to return to the office for work even after the pandemic ends. The news comes on the heels of similar decisions from Facebook and Twitter, which have also announced that employees can work from home permanently […]

Amazon’s multibillion-dollar cloud division is making its annual re:Invent conference an online-only event. The conference typically happens at the end of the year in Las Vegas. This time, it will presented over three weeks from Nov. 30 to Dec. 18. A re you an Amazon Web Services employee? Contact this […]

Microsoft has paused advertising spending on Facebook and Instagram, Axios reported Monday. The news comes as other major advertisers halt ad spending on Facebook to protest the way the company moderates hate speech. Microsoft is not participating in the boycott, according to Axios, but is concerned about the content that […]

Delphix employees organised an Inclusive Language Hackathon that will take place this Friday – Juneteenth – to replace racist or ableist terms in the company’s codebase with more inclusive words. Some examples include replacing “whitelist” and “blacklist” with “allowlist” and “denylist” and replacing “he” and “him” pronouns with gender-neutral ones […]

Michael Brown, senior software development engineer at Microsoft, organised JuneteenthConf, a virtual tech conference to build community among Black people in tech that will take place Friday and Saturday. Brown came up with the idea earlier this month as a way to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the news […]

On Tuesday, the artificial intelligence startup Streamlit announced it raised $US21 million in Series A funding. Streamlit CEO and co-founder Adrien Treuille first saw snags in building AI apps when he worked on projects like self-driving cars and Google Glass at Alphabet research subsidiary Google X, now known as X. […]

Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A site for developers, surveyed 65,000 users about what programming languages they use and their salaries. Based on those responses, Stack Overflow compiled a list of which programming languages are associated with the highest salaries. This survey was conducted in February, before the coronavirus outbreak was […]

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company does not sell facial recognition to US police departments, and committed not to unless a nationwide law is passed to regulate the technology, The commitment comes after Amazon’s announcement on Wednesday that it would suspend police use of its controversial facial-recognition technology, Rekognition, […]