Pendo acquires $100M Series E funding on $1 billion valuation
Pendo is the late-stage startup that assists companies to know how consumers are interacting with their apps. More About The Latest Funding It declared a $100 million Series E funding today on a valuation of $1 billion. Sapphire Ventures managed the round. Also joining were...
China proceeds to forbid international software and hardware from state offices
China has reportedly commanded all foreign PC hardware and operating systems to be returned in the next three years, raising an ongoing tech war. The country has tried this kind of thing before halfheartedly, but this is the most severe effort yet to separate itself...
Amazon now sells movie tickets in India
Amazon has fixed its eye on the following business it desires to disrupt in its important overseas market India: online movie tickets. The e-commerce giant announced this Saturday that it has partnered with local online movie ticketing service BookMyShow to start booking choices on Amazon...
Mark Zuckerberg creates the case for Facebook News
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looked cheerful and also joked when he took the stage in front of journalists and media executives, he admitted that there are reasons for the news industry to be cynical. After all, Facebook has been one of the main forces...
Google hires recent Disney and Star executive to manage its India business
Google had announced that it had selected Sanjay Gupta, a recent top executive with Disney India and Star, as the manager and vice president of sales and services for its India business. Introducing Sanjay Gupta Gupta will be substituting Rajan Anandan, who departed the company...
Microsoft OneDrive Personal Vault rolls out globally, starts expandable storage
Previously this summer, Microsoft added an extra layer of security to its Dropbox opponent, OneDrive. The security features, called OneDrive Personal Vault, enable users to preserve their files with two-step verification, such as a fingerprint or facial identification, PIN code, or a one-time code sent...
Rahko raises £1.3M seed from Balderton toward quantum machine training tech
There continues to be a problem with the race to build a quantum computer, which is why practices in those areas can be remarkably error-prone. Rahko is the latest U.K. startup that believes it can approach this problem with what is identified as “Quantum machine...
SUSE’s OpenStack Cloud Dispersal: What’s Next?
Suse is a recently launched independent open-source company behind the eponymous Linux administration. They also have an increasingly broad set of managed enterprise services. Today they have announced a part of a new strategy as it seems to stay on top of the growing trends...
Andreessen Horowitz recruits Julie Yoo as general partner
Julie Yoo has entered Andreessen Horowitz as its latest general partner. She will secure investments out of the venture capital firm’s bio fund, which settled on $450 million in 2017. Introducing Julie Yoo Yoo spent her last eight years as a co-founder and chief product...
Get set to view more looping videos on Spotify, as Canvas launches into beta
Introduction Spotify has announced that its Canvas feature is being rolled out to more artists, which means users will soon see more looping videos in the app. The feature was previously available only to select artists for testing, but it will now be accessible to...
