Arjun Vora and Tito Goldstein were working on the corporate side of Uber when they realized that HR software largely wasn’t built to manage hourly staff. Many hourly workers lacked a way to complete basic self-service tasks, the pair perceived, like clocking in and changing payment accounts. After interviewing hundreds of Uber drivers, Vora, an […]
AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named OpenSearch Foundation. AWS first launched the OpenSearch project in 2021, after Elastic changed its license for its Elasticsearch and Kibana projects to its
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The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommunication operators. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that Three and Vodafone’s planned $19 billion merger could lead to higher prices for consumers, diminished service such as smaller data packages in contracts, and reduced
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced its next major product release: A generative AI model code-named Strawberry, officially called OpenAI o1. To be more precise, o1 is actually a family of models. Two are available today in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and a smaller, cheaper model, o1 mini. You’ll have to be subscribed to
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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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MariaDB‘s short-lived tenure as a public company is all but over, as the struggling database business is now fully under the auspices of K1 Investment Management. MariaDB also announced a new CEO in the form of former Micro Focus executive Rohit de Souza, who replaces Paul O’Brien after just 16 months in the hotseat in
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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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AppCD is a startup that aims to make it easier for developers to set up infrastructure to run their applications by inferring what’s needed from their source code. The company on Tuesday announced that it has rebranded as StackGen and closed what is now a $12.3 million seed round (after first announcing a $6 million
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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 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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