DataStax, which develops a cloud-native noSQL database built on Apache Cassandra, raised $115M at a $1.6B valuation; DataStax had an $830M valuation in 2014
the company raised a $115 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation today, @ron_miller reports: https://techcrunch.com/... Matt Asay / @mjasay : DataStax proves it's still possible to raise nine-figur...
Amazon breaks out advertising services revenue for the first time: $9.7B for Q4, up 32% YoY, and $31.2B for FY 2021; subscription services grew 15% to $8.1B
arguably a coop fee/tax on 3rd party merchants who sell on Amazon — accounted for a third of all revenue. And by itself ads is a $30B/yr business $amzn https://twitter.com/... Matt Rosoff / @mattrosof...
Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%
Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levine_1 , @martin_casad...
Retail stores, which were closing due to declining foot traffic even before the pandemic, are now increasingly being turned into online fulfillment centers
As the demand for in-person shopping diminishes, landlords, startups and retailers are converting abandoned stores into online fulfillment centers Tweets: @denniswygmans , @mjasay , @mims , @paytonchu...
Vercel, formerly known as ZEIT, raises $21M Series A led by Accel and CRV for its front-end developer suite built on open source Next.js
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Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimaurici...
OpenAI says it will migrate to Facebook's PyTorch machine learning framework for future projects, eschewing Google's TensorFlow platform
We are standardizing OpenAI's deep learning framework on PyTorch. Matt Asay / InfoWorld : Interested in machine learning? Better learn PyTorch Tweets: @openai : We're standardizing OpenAI's deep learn...
Interview with Microsoft's cloud EVP Scott Guthrie on streaming, Satya Nadella, and how the company could use Azure to power connected car software
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Tweets: @mjasay and @markrussinovich Tweets: Matt Asay / @mjasay : One of the things that most impresses me with @scottgu and Microsoft, generally, is his/its abi...