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When Microsoft launched Viva last year, it framed the platform as an employee portal where you might go to find out parental leave policy or other internal communications directed more generally at company policies and culture. It further reinforced this idea last month when it released Viva Goals,

The “Great Resignation,” the trend where workers are leaving their jobs at a higher-than-usual rate, is continuing unabated. According to a May PwC survey, 20% of employees said that they’re likely to switch jobs in the next 12 months, while some 35% are planning to ask their empl

Shipping and cargo services is one of the more fragmented and analogue verticals in the world of industry, with hundreds of thousands of businesses involved in myriad aspects of a process that is fundamentally physical (not digital) by its nature. Today, a company called PayCargo, which built a pla

Last November, Grafana Labs launched OnCall, an on-call management tool for DevOps and site reliabity engineering (SRE) teams, as part of its fully managed Grafana Cloud service. Today, the company announced that it is open sourcing this tool, which should make it easier for companies in regulated

"">Configure, price and quote software, also known as CPQ software, is designed to help sellers quote complex and configurable products, like heavy trucks with different types of chassis and engines. Demand is high — according to Gartner, the CPQ software market grew by 15.5% in 2019 to an est

Next Matter, a workflow automation platform for business operations, today closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by OMERS Ventures with participation from BlueYard and Crane Venture. The proceeds will be put toward expanding the team from 15 to 75, according to CEO Jan Hugenroth, with a p

Onymos, a “feature-as-a-service” platform for app development, today announced that it closed a $12 million Series A round led by Great Point Ventures with participation from Benhamou Global Ventures, Engineering Capital and Industry Ventures. The funds will be put toward product develo

Alice Technologies, a startup developing software to help construction companies plan projects including bridges, tunnels, high-speed rail systems and mixed-use towers, today announced it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Vanedge Capital, with participation from Access Partners,

The Zendesk ownership saga took several new turns this week, with an external investor, Jana Partners, agitating against the company, a review of its strategic options coming to a close, and the business software company deciding to stay independent. Now worth less than $10 billion, Zendesk has mad

The founders of DigitalBrain have quite a back story. A pair of immigrants living in a hacker house in San Francisco, the two paid bills for a time by competing at hackathons and winning. When they came up with an idea for a business called DigitalBrain, they were able to get into Y Combinator in t

Earlier this year, the news of multifactor authentication attacks began to surface. MFA is supposed to be a technique to limit attacks. If someone gets hold of a password, an MFA request usually prevents them from getting any further, but this year's attacks showed that even MFA can be vulnerab

Roughly a year ago, Google announced the launch of Vertex AI, a managed AI platform designed to help companies to accelerate the deployment of AI models. To mark the service’s anniversary and the kickoff of Google’s Applied ML Summit, Google this morning announced new features heading t

TestBox, an early-stage startup, has a goal of making it easier to test software you want to purchase in your own environment. What’s more, it comes pre-populated with synthetic data that is similar to yours. Today, the company announced a $10 million seed round to continue building the solut

Who knows whether it's FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it's launching a pilot of NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying and selling these crypto assets. It's a turn to the future, according to the company, one it insists comes from cust