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Adobe’s customer experience management platform now generally available
Adobe Inc. is updating its cloud-based customer experience management tools with the launch into general availability of its Adobe Experience Platform. Called Adobe Experience Platform, it’s intended to break down data silos across large organizations, enabling them to use that information to create more accurate and in-depth customer profiles. The idea is that enterprises will be ...
Salesforce partner Vlocity raises $60M in Series C funding round
Salesforce.com Inc. partner Vlocity Inc. is getting another dose of venture capital, raising $60 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, with participation from new investor Bessemer Venture Partners and existing strategic investors Accenture and New York Life. It brings Vlocity’s total capital raised to ...
Kubernetes 1.14 release adds support for Windows containers in production
Red Hat Inc. today announced the latest release of Kubernetes, adding support for containers running on Windows nodes. Kubernetes 1.14 therefore elevates Microsoft Corp.’s operating system to a first-class citizen in container environments, which are used to build software applications that can run on any platform. Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration platform for managing those ...
IBM-bound Red Hat reports mixed earnings results
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. delivered mixed fourth-quarter results in what should be one of its last earnings reports. The company, which is being acquired by IBM Corp. in a $34 billion deal that should close in the second half of this year, beat Wall Street’s expectations on profit but fell short on revenue. Red ...
Oracle reportedly axes hundreds or more staff from its engineering teams
Oracle Corp. has reportedly axed hundreds of its engineering staff worldwide amid an organizational restructuring that’s meant to help the company refocus on its cloud infrastructure operations. IEE Spectrum reported Friday that the total number of staff cut could exceed “thousands worldwide,” with up to 10 percent of Oracle’s staff affected, though lower estimates suggest a ...
Payment processing startup Marqeta is in talks to raise $250m
Digital payment processing company Marqeta Inc. looks to have gained some considerable momentum in recent months, if reports of its upcoming funding round are any indication. The company is all set to close on a huge $250 million Series E round of funding that will brings its valuation to about $1.9 billion. That’s a massive leap ...
Amazon reportedly testing new video ad service on its mobile app
Never one to shy away from a potentially lucrative new revenue stream, Amazon.com is reportedly looking at expanding its push into the $129 billion digital advertising market. The report comes from Bloomberg, which said Amazon is testing a new service that involves selling video advertising spots on its smartphone shopping app. The website cites people ...
Subscription management company Zuora’s stock plunges on lower guidance
Updated: Cloud subscription management services firm Zuora Inc.’s stock plunged more than 15 percent today in after-hours trading thanks to light guidance for its fiscal first quarter. Update: On Friday, shares ended up falling 14 percent. The drop came in spite of a decent fourth quarter for the company, which remains unprofitable after posting a ...
Report: Apple signs up Wall Street Journal for its upcoming paid news service
Apple Inc. has reportedly signed up the Wall Street Journal to its upcoming subscription news service, which is likely to be announced next week. The New York Times, which said it won’t be joining Apple’s service, reported that Apple and the Journal will announce their partnership at a media event scheduled to take place on March ...
Gartner says AI will assume 80% of all project management tasks by 2030
Project managers who are worried about the prospects of artificial intelligence one day stealing their jobs might do well to consider a career change as soon as they can. That’s because Gartner Inc. analysts predict that AI software will eliminate around 80 percent of all project management office or PMO tasks by 2030. That includes tasks such ...
