Airbyte acquires data synchronization service Grouparoo
Airbyte, the well-funded open source data integration platform, today announced that it has acquired Grouparoo, an open source startup that focuses on helping businesses sync data between their data warehouses and cloud-based tools. In many ways, this complements Airbyte’s offering, which foc
Top five reasons students should attend TC Sessions: Mobility
TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for its fourth consecutive year. It's a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we m
New Salesforce AI chief eyes a future with voice-driven coding
As we start to see AI advance in business, the ways in which we interact with machines are beginning to change. Companies like Salesforce are looking for new opportunities for AI to have a more direct impact on customers.
While using AI to surface the customer most likely to churn or most likely to
Why a 35-year-old travel IT company decided to slash its technical debt
Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corpor
OpenPhone raises $40M to replace your work phone and office PBX with an app
Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin became one of the most iconic refrains from “The Office,” and it’s really no wonder that it did: Businesses big and small have long run on communications played out over PBXs, voicemail, cold and warm calls, customer help lines, and more r
Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment matching tool
If “The Great Resignation” taught us anything, it is that people want to be appreciated, respected and well paid for their work.
Staff turnover in restaurants and hospitality has always been an issue, with people leaving at an average rate of 30%. That's where Landed comes in.
The Folklore Group secures $1.7 million, launches fashion B2B e-commerce platform
Fashion e-commerce startup The Folklore Group today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 million pre-seed funding, which the startup plans to use to fuel the growth of its new business.
The startup's new wholesale business, dubbed The Folklo
Saiga aims to succeed where Magic and other concierge apps failed
It’s 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, and you’re running late for a flight to a corporate conference. While stuck in rush-hour traffic, it occurs to you that you’ve forgotten to book a babysitter for the kids — and find a restaurant for the team outing scheduled toward the end of your t
Jüsto grabs new capital as it expands grocery delivery in Brazil, Peru
Jüsto, the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market.
The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüst
Samsung's upcoming Q1 earnings top estimates on solid chip demand
Samsung Electronics released Thursday its preliminary earnings for the first quarter of 2022.
The company said it forecasts to report consolidated revenue of $63.1 billion (77 trillion KRW) and an operating profit of about $11.6 billion (14.1 trillion KRW) for the quarter ended March. Those nu
Salesforce upgrades marketing, field service and sales tools with AI
Today, timed with a conference out of Sydney, Australia, Salesforce announced new analytics-powered features across its Service and Marketing Cloud suites designed to “‘humanize' engagement between companies and their customers.” While that might be overpromising, the new and
Stackblitz raises $7.9M to bring a better IDE to your browser
StackBlitz, a developer-focused startup that uses WebAssembly and WebContainers to give you a full development environment in your browser, today announced that it has raised a $7.9 million seed funding round led by Greylock with participation from GV, GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, atSpoke
Atlassian’s Compass is mission control for software development
Atlassian today unveiled Compass, a new tool to help software teams keep track of all of the microservices they built and consume inside their organization.
Tiffany To, head of product for Agile and DevOps at Atlassian, noted that Atlassian itself has about 1,500 microservices in production right n
Atlassian gets a data lake and analytics service
Atlassian today announced the launch of its new data lake and Atlassian Analytics, a front end for its data lake that will allow its customers to easily query all of the data they have stored across the various Atlassian products they use. The new Analytics service is based on its acquisition of da