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Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying

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OpenWeb, a New York startup whose tools help publishers engage users, has a unique problem. Its co-founding CEO reportedly won’t leave, even though it announced a new CEO. According to CTech, on Tuesday, OpenWeb’s chairman, Tim Harvey, sent an email to employees, saying he’s becoming CEO and thanking longtime CEO Nadav Shoval for his “incredible […]

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JFrog deepens its partnership with GitHub, launches runtime security service

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Earlier this year, software supply chain platform (and binary specialist) JFrog announced a partnership with GitHub that, among other things, allowed developers and the teams that support them to trace code from source to binary package across the two platforms. On Tuesday, at JFrog’s SwampUp conference in Austin, the two companies are extending this early

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Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream

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Streaming data and Kafka specialist Confluent on Monday announced that it has acquired WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming data solution. Confluent plans to use WarpStream’s cloud-native solution to fill out its portfolio by offering a new service (Confluent WarpStream) that can sit in between its fully-managed Confluent Cloud and self-managed Confluent Platform. As Confluent co-founder and

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Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash

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Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. In a press release, Salesforce GM Steve Fisher said in a statement that Own “underscores [Salesforce’s] commitment to providing secure, end-to-end solutions that protect our customers’ most valuable data.” “Data security has never been more critical, and

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All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers

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At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of shifting everything left, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “toil-oriented task” like writing unit tests, managing dependencies and keeping documentation up to date. AI, on the other hand, may

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Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI

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Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot, Claude, catered towards enterprise customers that want more administrative controls and increased security. Claude Enterprise will compete with OpenAI’s business-specific solution, ChatGPT Enterprise, released roughly a year ago. Claude Enterprise allows businesses to upload proprietary company knowledge into Anthropic’s AI chatbot. Then Claude can

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Payroll startup Cercli inks $4M to build the “Rippling for the Middle East and North Africa”

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While scaling and managing teams at two of the largest unicorns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Akeed Azmi and David Reche stumbled on what they believed was a $2 billion opportunity. They realized that their former employers at Careem and Kitopi as well as other local businesses in the region struggled with payroll management and

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