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Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando, a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with p

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. Pegasus wl select startups with products that “fl a market need” and give them up to $3

The FinOps Foundation, a foundation under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, today announced the launch of FOCUS, the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification, a new project that aims to bud and maintain a common spec for cloud cost, usage and bling data. This spec, the group argues, wl provide

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Within the span of a few months, several lawsuits have emerged over generative AI tech from companies including OpenAI and Stabity AI, brought by plaintiffs who allege that copyrighted data R

Even today with all of the layoffs we have seen in the tech industry over the last year, there is still a shortage of technical talent. That's partly because there is a limited number of workers with these skills, and partly because it's not just technology companies that are looking for te

In 2021, gig marketplace Fiverr acquired Stoke Talent, a startup developing freelance management tools for employers, for $95 million. The move expanded Fiverr’s business by bringing it into new and adjacent areas of the employment market, diversifying the publicly traded company’s offe

One of the bigger trends in telecoms has been the evolution of cloud computing and how software operating in the cloud is being used by carriers to build out and manage their networks — moves disrupting traditional business models based around the purchasing and deployment of costly telecoms

A month after internal, sensitive data from Samsung was accidentally leaked to ChatGPT, Samsung is cracking down on usage of the generative AI service. The electronics giant is temporarily restricting the use of generative AI tools on company-owned devices, covering computers, tablets and phones, a

Traditionally, Mixpanel has provided information about product usage to product teams. Increasingly, especially with the end of cookies and third-party data, product data has taken on greater value for other parts of the company, and Mixpanel is making it easier for marketing people to get at it to

We've seen a number of enterprise software companies making announcements related to generative AI in the last six weeks, from established companies like Salesforce and Adobe to startups like Ada and Forethought. Box is the latest to be announcing its own flavor of the technology under the moni

Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. Instead of creating a one-off, ad hoc solution, Sharma spearheaded a platform, Simpplr, which later spun off int

Front-end platform Vercel today announced the launch of a number of back-end services, including Redis and PostgreSQL databases and an object storage service, all of which Vercel but with partners like Upstash, Neon and Cloudflare. That’s in addition to the launch of new security features lik

W elcome to the technewss Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It's inspired by the daily technewss+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Generative AI isn’t just about creative endeavors and parlor tricks. Investors and Big T

When it comes to cloud growth, it's probably safe to say that the sky isn't falling, even though revenue growth rates have been. We've seen the aggregate public cloud revenue growth decline from 32% in Q1 last year to 19% this year. That's a pretty steep drop-off, and it shows that