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Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet

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Unlike some of its competitors, Google Cloud has recently started emphasizing how its large lineup of different services can be combined to solve common business problems. Instead of trying to sell individual services, Google is focusing on solutions and the latest effort here is what it calls its Business Application Platform, which combines the API […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet→

Avo raises $3M for its analytics governance platform

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Avo, a startup that helps businesses better manage their data quality across teams, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from  Heavybit, Y Combinator and others. The company’s founder, Stefania Olafsdóttir, who is currently based in Iceland, was previously the head of data science at […] Continue reading Avo raises $3M for its analytics governance platform→

Google Cloud lets businesses create their own text-to-speech voices

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Google launched a few updates to its Contact Center AI product today, but the most interesting one is probably the beta of its new Custom Voice service, which will let brands create their own text-to-speech voices to best represent their own brands. Maybe your company has a well-known spokesperson for example, but it would be […] Continue reading Google Cloud lets businesses create their own text-to-speech voices→

LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates

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LaunchNotes, a startup founded by the team behind Statuspage (which Atlassian later acquired) and the former head of marketing for Jira, today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round co-led by Cowboy Ventures and Bull City Ventures. In addition, Tim Chen (general partner, Essence Ventures), Eric Wittman (chief growth officer, JLL Technologies), […] Continue reading LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates→

Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word

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Microsoft today launched Transcribe in Word, its new transcription service for Microsoft 365 subscribers, into general availability. It’s now available in the online version of Word, with other platforms launching later. In addition, Word is also getting new dictation features, which now allow you to use your voice to format and edit your text, for […] Continue reading Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word→

SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

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SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project. About a year ago, SUSE also contributed the KubeCF project to the foundation, which itself allows the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime — the core of […] Continue reading SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation→

Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes

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Mirantis, the company that recently bought Docker’s enterprise business, today announced that it has acquired Lens, a desktop application that the team describes as a Kubernetes integrated development environment. Mirantis previously acquired the team behind the Finnish startup Kontena, the company that originally developed Lens. Lens itself was most recently owned by Lakend Labs, though, […] Continue reading Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes→

Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations

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A lot of “partnerships” between tech companies don’t get very far beyond a press release and maybe some half-hearted co-selling attempts. When Atlassian sold its chat services to Slack in 2018, the two companies said they would form a new partnership and with Atlassian leaving the chat space, a lot of people were skeptical about […] Continue reading Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations→

Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security platform

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Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its $4 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel. The company’s platform helps businesses protect their SaaS applications by regularly scanning their various setting for security issues. The company’s co-founders met in the Israeli Defense Forces, where they were […] Continue reading Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security platform→

Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh

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Microsoft today announced the launch of a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy. The Open Service Mesh is meant to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) spec, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes that has the backing of most of the players in this ecosystem. The […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh→