

South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform
As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial...

Cloud infrastructure startup CloudNatix gets $4.5 million seed round led by DNX Ventures
CloudNatix founder and chief executive officer Rohit Seth CloudNatix, a startup that provides infrastructure for businesses with multiple cloud and on-premise operations, announced it has raised $4.5 million in seed...

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Superset™ as a Top-Level Project
Open Source enterprise-grade Big Data visualization and business intelligence Web application in use at Airbnb, American Express, Dropbox, Lyft, Netflix, Nielsen, Rakuten Viki, Twitter, and Udemy, among others.Wilmington, DE —21 January 2021— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Superset™ as a...

Corporate America is pausing its financial support for the 147 GOP lawmakers who challenged Biden's victory. Here are all the S&P 500 companies who gave them money - and then stopped.
Erin Schaff/Getty Images S&P 500 companies gave $23 million to the 147 GOP lawmakers who contested Electoral College results. After GOP efforts to overturn Biden's victory led to violence, some companies paused...

Indian Conversational AI Platform Yellow Messenger Partners With Microsoft to Develop Enterprise Voice Assistants
Indian enterprise conversational AI startup Yellow Messenger will work with Microsoft to upgrade its voice AI services to behave more like a human. The startup will collaborate with Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive...

Salesforce Slack Acquisition – 5 Reasons Why This Merger is the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!
Salesforce is bringing in a huge wave of features and services for its users this year. Before the end of 2020, Salesforce signed a $27.7 billion megadeal to acquire Slack, a leading channel-based messaging...



Expensify CEO slams corporate America's response to the Capitol riots: 'Defending the free market does not mean standing by as people destroy it'
David Barrett. David Barrett Expensify CEO David Barrett slammed corporate America's response to the attacks on the US Capitol. Barrett told Insider that defending free markets requires first defending democracy. He...
Read the email Expensify's CEO sent to customers on MLK Day outlining the company's plan to fight injustices with a 'highly experimental' crowdsourced campaign
Expensify Expensify will spend an extra $3 million to fight systemic injustices in 2021. CEO David Barrett outlined a "highly experimental" plan to let volunteers and donors choose causes. Expensify will...


For better or worse, Gmail on the web will now let you resize your chat and rooms section
Love it or hate it, Google Chat exists in the left-hand sidebar of the Gmail interface. Regardless of how that makes you feel, there is one thing that I’m sure we can all agree on – it’s notoriously difficult to...
