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Bubble enables anyone — coder or not — to begin building modern web applications using a click-and-drag interface that can connect data sources and other software together in one fluid interface. Continue reading No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete
Zoom is taking advantage of the impressive rise in its stock price in the past year to make its first major acquisition. The popular video conferencing firm, which was valued at about $9 billion at its IPO two years ago, said Sunday evening it has agreed a deal to buy cloud call centre service provider […] Continue reading Zoom buys cloud call center firm Five9 for $14.7 billion
ServiceMax, a company that builds software for the field-service industry, announced yesterday that it will go public via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. The transaction comes after ServiceMax was sold to GE for $915 million in 2016, before being spun out in late 2018. The company […] Continue reading ServiceMax promises accelerating growth as key to $1.4B SPAC deal
When it comes to tough environments to build new technology, firefighting has to be among the most difficult. Smoke and heat can quickly damage hardware, and interference from fires will disrupt most forms of wireless communications, rendering software all but useless. From a technology perspective, not all that much has really changed today when it […] Continue reading You can see fires, but now Qwake wants firefighters to see through them
ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million. Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s market, is a hot space that uses AI to “listen” to sales conversations to help improve interactions between salespeople and customers. […] Continue reading ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market
Couchbase could double its valuation provided that investors are more interested in its faster-than-Red Hat growth than they are worried about its history of cash consumption and growing net losses. Continue reading What does Red Hat’s sale to IBM tell us about Couchbase’s valuation?
Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack. Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database […] Continue reading Neo4j raises Neo$325m as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise
Remote work was the order of the day for the past 16 months, but as we (fingers crossed) move out of the pandemic, it’s looking like a lot of people may move into a new era of hybrid work: less focus being present in offices to feel like you are getting things done, less time […] Continue reading Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal
Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners are buying a security solution that could be useful as more companies find themselves with some assets on-site and some in the cloud. Continue reading Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit
Let’s take a closer look at the S-1 filed by Xometry, a Maryland-based service that connects companies with manufacturers with excess production capacity around the world. Continue reading Xometry is taking its excess manufacturing capacity business public