Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century
When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying to sell their innovative tech through old-school methods like repeated cold emails and calls.
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With the end of Workplace, it's fair to wonder if Meta was ever serious about the enterprise
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer product that made most of its money from ads making a go of it in the enterprise. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it l
Ampere teams up with Qualcomm to launch an Arm-based AI server
Ampere and Qualcomm aren’t the most obvious of partners. Both, after all, offer Arm-based chips for running data center servers (though Qualcomm’s largest market remains mobile). But as the two companies announced today, they are now combining forces to offer an AI-focused server that u
Meet the Magnificent Six: A tour of the stages at Disrupt 2024
technewss Disrupt has always been the ultimate convergence point for all things startup and tech. In the bustling world of innovation, it serves as the “big top” tent, where entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and industry leaders gather to witness the unveiling of groundbreaking technolo
CoLab’s collaborative tools for engineers line up $21M in new funding
Engineers Adam Keating and Jeremy Andrews were tired of using spreadsheets and screenshots to collab with teammates — so they launched a startup, CoLab, to build a better way.
The two met as undergraduates at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where they studied mechanical engineering together
Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools
In 2014, Jason Frantz and Rob Woollen co-founded Sigma Computing, a platform that overlays data stored in data platforms such as Snowflake and Google BigQuery with a spreadsheet-like interface for data visualization and analytics. With Sigma, the two former software engineers sought to tackle wha
Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads
It's tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market.
On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam Selipsky was stepping
Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds
As annual spending on cloud computing surges toward the $1 trillion mark, we're seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors as they build tools to help manage that usage.
In the latest development, a startup called Alkira has raised $100 million for its
Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms
While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI.
The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tun
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome 126.
This, the company says, will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own A
Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps
At the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced an addition to its Firebase platform that aims to make it easier for developers to build AI-powered applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Go support coming soon.
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework, using the Apache
Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to Google Maps Platform
Gemini model capabilities are coming to the Google Maps Platform for developers, starting with the Places API, the company announced at the Google I/O 2024 conference on Tuesday. With this new capability, developers will be able to show generative AI summaries of places and areas in their own apps
Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta
At it’s annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that Project IDX, the company’s next-gen, AI-centric browser-based development environment, is now in open beta. The company first launched it as an invite-only service gated by a waitlist in August.
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Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta’s Llama and Mistral’s open models, at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference.
The headline-grabbing release here is Gemma 2, the next generation