Enterprise

Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them. So for those times when you're in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it's nice to have a transcript to make sure you didn't miss that one important nugget of information that actually pertains to your job. Google knows this,

"speakable-summary" style="text-align: left;">Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That's on

Google Workspace, the company's set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company's Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up

At its Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced that it is unifying all of its business intelligence products under the Looker brand. Google's $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed back in 2020, marking the first major acquisition for Google Cloud under the leadership of Thomas K

Believe it or not, there are still a fair number of large businesses that run on mainframe computers — yes, even in 2022. It may seem like a throwback from a time gone by, but it's still a significant part of some enterprise computing stacks. The question becomes, how can those companies

Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. Now, a startup called Factorial — one of the bigger players in the area of building HR technology for SMBs — is announcing a big fundraise

A new company is setting out to challenge Airtable, the 10-year-old company recently valued at a whopping $11 billion, with a slightly different take on what it means to be a no-code database platform. NocoDB is one of a number of startups to emerge on the scene with plans to usurp the mighty Airta

Antonio Rodriguez, who joined Matrix in 2010 after a Matrix-backed company he cofounded was sold to Hewlett-Packard, told us last week that Matrix just raised its biggest fund in roughly 20 years. It’s an $800 million vehicle that the firm closed in June and is announcing for the first time n

Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff has been preaching for years about the importance of corporate social responsibility, the idea that companies need to worry about not only making money for investors but also contributing positively to the wider community in which they operate. He could be onto someth

Google said today that it will open its first data center in Japan by 2023. The company noted that this data center will be located in Inzai City, Chiba and is a part of its $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024. This is the company’s third data center in Asia after

A notable changing of the guard is afoot at Intercom, the unicorn SaaS startup that powers the ubiquitous smiley customer service bots that sit on tens of thousands of company homepages: The company has reappointed co-founder, and current chairman, Eoghan McCabe as CEO. He’s replacing Karen P

Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information from emails and spreadsheets and eliminate a lot of copy/paste activity. More recently the company developed a way for a more broad set of customers to c

Revelio Labs, a startup developing analytics software for HR teams, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round with participation from Elephant Partners, Alumni Ventures, BDMI, K20 Ventures, Techstars and Barclays. Bringing the company’s total raised to $19 million, the pr

Lightdash, an open source business intelligence (BI) platform that’s setting out to challenge proprietary incumbents such as Looker, is officially launching its core commercial product to the public today backed by $8.4 million in funding. The seed round was led by Accel, with participation f