Category Archives: Computing

Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language

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Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft’s own low-code Power Platform, but since the company is open-sourcing the language, Microsoft also hopes that others will implement it as well and that it will become […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language→

Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features

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It’s (virtual) Microsoft Ignite this week, Microsoft’s annual IT-centric conference and its largest, with more than 26,000 people attending the last in-person event in 2019. Given its focus, it’s no surprise that Microsoft Teams is taking center stage in the announcements this year. Teams, after all, is now core to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Today’s announcements […] Continue reading Microsoft updates Teams with new presentation features→

Google updates Workspace

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Google Workspace, the company’s productivity platform you’ll forever refer to as G Suite (or even “Google Docs”), is launching a large update today that touches everything from your calendar to Google Meet and how you can use Workspace with Google Assistant. Indeed, the highlight here is probably that you can now use Assistant in combination […] Continue reading Google updates Workspace→

Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

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Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Other participants in this round include Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $4.3 million seed round […] Continue reading Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work→

Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0

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Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the project’s readiness for production use cases. Microsoft launched the Distributed Application Runtime (that’s what “Dapr” stand for) back in October 2019. Since then, the project released 14 updates and […] Continue reading Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0→

Spectral raises $6.2M for its DevSecOps service

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Tel Aviv-based Spectral is bringing its new DevSecOps code scanner out of stealth today and announcing a $6.2 million funding round. The startup’s programming language-agnostic service aims to automated code security development teams to help them detect potential security issues in their codebases and logs, for example. Those issues could be hardcoded API keys and […] Continue reading Spectral raises $6.2M for its DevSecOps service→

TigerGraph raises $105M Series C for its enterprise graph database

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TigerGraph, a well-funded enterprise startup that provides a graph database and analytics platform, today announced that it has raised a $105 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global and brings the company’s total funding to over $170 million. “TigerGraph is leading the paradigm shift in connecting and analyzing data via […] Continue reading TigerGraph raises $105M Series C for its enterprise graph database→

Nobl9 raises $21M Series B for its SLO management platform

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SLAs, SLOs, SLIs. If there’s one thing everybody in the business of managing software development loves, it’s acronyms. And while everyone probably knows what a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is, Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) may not be quite as well known. The idea, though, is straightforward, with SLOs being the […] Continue reading Nobl9 raises $21M Series B for its SLO management platform→

Google Cloud launches Apigee X, the next generation of its API management platform

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Google today announced the launch of Apigee X, the next major release of the Apgiee API management platform it acquired back in 2016. “If you look at what’s happening — especially after the pandemic started in March last year — the volume of digital activities has gone up in every kind of industry, all kinds […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches Apigee X, the next generation of its API management platform→

Microsoft launches Viva, its new take on the old intranet

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Microsoft today launched Viva, a new “employee experience platform,” or, in non-marketing terms, its new take on the intranet sites most large companies tend to offer their employees. This includes standard features like access to internal communications built on integrations with SharePoint, Yammer and other Microsoft tools. In addition, Viva also offers access to team […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Viva, its new take on the old intranet→