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 […]
The data science platform Pachyderm raised $US16 million in Series B funding led by Microsoft’s venture fund M12, it announced Wednesday. Pachyderm offers a free, community version of its software that anyone can use and download for free, as well as a paid business version. Pachyderm cofounder Joey Zwicker says […]
SAP has announced that Qualtrics, the subsidiary it purchased for $US8 billion in 2018, will be going public. The company said that SAP’s board has already approved the deal, and that it plans to maintain its majority stake in the company even after the IPO. Qualtrics was just days away […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jim Keller, the renowned chip engineer who joined Intel from Tesla two years ago, has resigned “due to personal reasons,” the company said Thursday. Keller, who is also known for his work at AMD and Apple, had led the Intel engineering group that was developing microprocessors. He was one of […]
Zoom is under scrutiny by the New York Attorney General’s office for its data privacy and security practices. The NY attorney general’s office sent a letter to Zoom asking what new security measures the company has put in place, if any, to handle its huge surge in usage, according to […]
Business Insider named 10 enterprise technology executives to our list of the 100 people transforming business. These executives are changing the way that companies work with their customers, the way that programmers work together, and the way that money moves all over the world. See the full list of the […]
Enterprise tech startups have been on a 12-month IPO joyride. From MongoDB to Dropbox to Eventbrite, more than 20 startups in the enterprise tech industry have sold shares to the public and made splashy Wall Street debuts this past year. Unlike consumer internet companies whose products are usually free and […]
On Monday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff admonished San Francisco business leaders who are unwilling to give to aid the city’s homeless. Just last week, Benioff sparred on social media with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over Proposition C, a measure to be voted on in the upcoming San Francisco election that […]
Smartsheet, a $US852.1 million collaboration software company, has filed to go public. Smartsheet, which was founded in 2005, grew its revenue by 66% from 2017 to 2018, but also saw its losses grow by a whopping 223% in the same period. It’s the latest enterprise tech company to move toward […]
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