Enterprise

Google has acquired Cameyo, a company developing virtualization tools to run Windows apps on ChromeOS devices, for an undisclosed amount. In a blog post, Cameyo CEO Andrew Miller and Google product lead Naveen Viswanatha wrote that the buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google’s lightweight Linux-b

Since its launch in 2017, ClickUp has become a popular and well-funded productivity tool. And like all productivity tools, the ClickUp team has also heard the siren song of artificial intelligence. The company has now launched what it calls “ClickUp Knowledge Management,” which combines

By now most people have heard of AI agents — software that can act autonomously to undertake a series of tasks, but Asana has decided to take a different approach when it comes to AI. The company on Wednesday introduced a beta of what it's calling “AI teammates” in a bid to help m

Every company, large or small, needs to choose software, and the bigger the company, the more complex the exercise. Some have internal tools and processes to help narrow down the list of possible vendors and eventually make a selection. Others use firms like Gartner or G2 to help guide them through

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are complex, computationally expensive and not typically something that startups focus on. But that’s exactly what Boston- and Berlin-based Dive is doing. The company aims to change how manufacturers use computer simulations by using both modern

Alphabet on Wednesday said it has hired pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s CFO, Anat Ashkenazi, as its finance head. The appointment comes nearly a year after Alphabet confirmed that its current CFO, Ruth Porat, would leave the post. Porat, who joined the company (then known as Google) from Mo

Data transformation startup Tobiko may not be a household name yet, but you may have seen co-founder and CEO Tyson Mao on “Beauty and the Geek” back in the aughts and his co-founder, brother and CTO Toby Mao, on the speedcubing circuit. (Both have held world records in the past, and Tys

Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. (CNBC reports that Databricks paid over $1 billion.) According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue, he and Tabular’s other two co-founders, Daniel Weeks and Jason Reid, will be joining Da

When Stacklet's founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren't all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But in the ensuing years, as they experienced economic headwinds, first from the pandemic, and t

Fivetran, the company best known for helping enterprises build their data pipelines, on Tuesday announced the general availability of its newest product, the Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service. The new service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes by automating and streamlining

Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy rights nonprofit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority. The complaints examine the use of Microso

Benjamin Encz’s and Abhik Pramanik's paths to entrepreneurship were long and unusual. Having previously worked as an R&D engineer at FX companies Industrial Light & Magic and DreamWorks on films like “Transformers” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” Pramanik

Redpanda, the well-funded Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that competes with the likes of Confluent, on Thursday announced that it has acquired open source stream-processing platform Benthos. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price, but it’s worth noting that Redpanda

Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid. It’s no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that helps its customers manage commissions more easily. Several months ago, Salesforce bought Spiff to help companies bui