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If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where every company was suddenly concerned about processing huge amounts of data. The future was bright, an open […] Continue reading With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times
Before Tableau was the $15.7 billion key to Salesforce’s problems, it was a couple of founders arguing with a couple of venture capitalists over lunch about why its Series A valuation should be higher than $12 million pre-money. Salesforce has generally been one to signify corporate strategy shifts through their acquisitions, so you can understand […] Continue reading The Exit: The acquisition charting Salesforce’s future
Visa and Andreessen Horowitz are betting even bigger on cryptocurrency, funding a big round for fellow Facebook Libra Association member Anchorage’s omnimetric blockchain security system. Instead of using passwords that can be stolen, Anchorage requires cryptocurrency withdrawals to be approved by a client’s other employees. Then the company uses both human and AI review of […] Continue reading Visa funds $40M for no-password crypto vault Anchorage
In the years following the financial crisis, de novo bank activity in the US slowed to a trickle. But as memories fade, the economy expands and the potential of tech-powered financial services marches forward, entrepreneurs have once again been asking the question, “Should I start a bank?” And by bank, I’m not referring to a […] Continue reading Grasshopper’s Judith Erwin leaps into innovation banking
Troops helps sales teams communicate via Slack. Continue reading VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams
Security vendor Imperva will acquire bot mitigation company Distil Networks to bolster its services amid a frenzied period of merger and acquisition activity in the cybersecurity market. Imperva announced Tuesday its executives have signed a deal that will result in Distil being folded into a comprehensive security platform, Imperva CEO Chris Hylen said in a statement. The company told CyberScoop the transaction has not yet closed, and at this time things remain business as usual for both companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Distil will continue to function and serve its customers while integration plans are implemented. “Distil Networks gives us a comprehensive bot management solution that identifies, responds to and manages a full range of automated attacks no matter whether there’s applications or APIs are deployed,” Hylen said. Imperva, founded in 2002, promises clients real-time activity monitoring, threat mitigation and risk management services. The company was acquired […]
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How a whimsical online game became an enterprise software giant. Continue reading The Slack origin story
The Valley’s rocky history with clean tech investing has been well-documented. Startups focused on non-emitting generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sector’s hype quickly got away from reality. Complex underlying science, severe capital intensity, slow-moving customers, and high-cost business models outside the comfort zones of typical venture capital, […] Continue reading Fintech and clean tech? An odd couple or a perfect marriage?
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller discuss major announcements that came out of the Linux Foundation’s European KubeCon/CloudNativeCon conference and discuss the future of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Nearly doubling in […] Continue reading Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kate Clark sat down with Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of video communications startup Zoom, to go behind the curtain on the company’s recent IPO process and its path […] Continue reading Under the hood on Zoom’s IPO, with founder and CEO Eric Yuan