UK provisionally greenlights Viasat and Inmarsat’s $7.3B merger, pointing to competition from Starlink

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed $7.3 billion merger between London-based satellite company Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat. The two companies, which offer myriad satellite services spanning everything from in-flight Wi-Fi to militar

With 5 activists in the mix, Salesforce will report earnings Wednesday

Earnings reports come and go; for the most part, they’re a fairly routine exercise, but Wednesday's report from Salesforce could be a little different. That's because the CRM leader finds itself in difficult waters with five different activist investors — Elliott Management, Starboa

Microservices orchestration platform Temporal raises $75M and remains a unicorn

Temporal, an open source microservices orchestration platform used by companies, including Netflix, Snap and Comcast, has raised $75 million from a slew of high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks. The startup has also maintained its coveted unicorn status with a valuation of

Entitle raises $15M seed round to modernize permissions management

Tel Aviv-based Entitle, a startup that helps businesses automate how their developers gain permission to access cloud resources, today announced that it has raised a $15 million seed round led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from a number of angel investors, including more than 10 pr

Bonusly, a startup aiming to help employees get recognized for quality work, raises $18.9M

Employee recognition is a key retention tool in a competitive jobs market. According to a recent SurveyMonkey poll, 82% of staffers consider recognition an important part of their happiness at work, while an equal percentage — 82% — report feeling happier overall as a result of receivin

Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community. During her work, she met Jake Soberal, an intellectual property lawyer, who shared

Businesses can now hire project managers through Fiverr

Fiverr, the online gig marketplace for just about anything, today launched a white glove service for big-budget buyers. Called Project Partner, the service pairs customers with a project leader who manages their project end-to-end. (I struggled mightily, dear readers, to find a synonym for “p

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback

Meet Cycle, a French startup that is building a collaboration tool for product managers where they can collect data from various tools, work on the next product iterations and close the feedback loop with the most engaged customers. The company raised a total of $6 million across two funding rounds

Cisco to acquire startup Valtix to beef up its multicloud network security

Few organizations use a single cloud infrastructure vendor, and figuring out how to configure security across multiple clouds can be a challenge for companies. Cisco announced over the weekend that it intends to acquire Valtix, a startup that helps companies secure their environments across multipl

As companies shift from growth to efficiency, what does it mean for tech budgets?

It seems like, in very short order, we've moved away from a “growth over everything” mentality to one that focuses on operational efficiency, and this is true for startups and mature companies alike. In truth, though, the shift probably happened slowly over time as the economy got shakier (

Mobile carriers team up with AWS, Microsoft to launch Open Gateway, a set of Twilio-like APIs to tap network services

APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: Used to integrate applications with each other, API calls make up the majority of global internet traffic these days. Now, telecoms carriers, often cut out of the march of tech but now looking for more ways to monetize next-generati

Microsoft Azure expands its telco solutions

New smartphones may get most of the headlines at MWC, but at its core, the annual trade show is still a telco event. It’s maybe no surprise then that the large cloud providers, which are all vying for the lucrative telco market, also made a few announcements ahead of the event. AWS jumped ahe

Storj Next could make decentralized storage more appealing to both supply and demand sides

Decentralized storage company Storj has launched a new version called Storj Next, which introduces new features and economic incentives to make this alternative to Amazon S3 more appealing on both sides of the equation. Storj stores files safely, using extra storage capacity around the world. As Te

Cloud optimization startup ProsperOps lands $72M investment

The cloud is growing expensive. According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. A separate report from Gartner forecasts t