Rosalie Chan
Senior Reporter, Enterprise Tech
VCs say that these are the top startups to help reduce cloud and IT spend
During the coronavirus pandemic, many companies are turning to software to help them scale back their cloud and IT spend.
Here's what you need to know about Unreal Engine, the game development software with 7.5 million users that's caught in the middle of the legal battle between Epic Games and Apple
Here's what you need to know about the popular game development suite behind "Kingdom Hearts 3," "Mortal Kombat 11," and of course, "Fortnite."
Tech salaries in Chicago revealed: How much Facebook, Microsoft, PayPal, Cisco, Amazon, Grubhub, and Google pay developers, engineers, consultants, and others in the city
Here's how much tech companies pay employees in Chicago. Many tech giants like Google have offices in Chicago, and it's home to Grubhub and Groupon.
Palantir could spend as much as $1.5 billion on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure over the next five-plus years, even as the startup's work with ICE drags Amazon into controversy
Activists have protested Palantir for its work with ICE and Amazon for its ties to Palantir. Palantir's S-1 reveals that it also relies on Microsoft.
Palantir called out China in its S-1, saying that working with the Chinese communist party is 'inconsistent with our culture and mission'
Palantir is known for its secretive work with governments around the world and controversial work with ICE, but it says it won't work with China.
Twilio's first CIO aims to scale the $37 billion cloud communications company's IT systems during a 'perfect storm' — while also bringing more women into the tech industry
Twilio was looking for a "nontraditional CIO," and it hired former SAP Concur executive Michelle Grover because of her engineering background.
Online coding bootcamp Lambda School just raised $74 million, even as it loses the ability to offer its controversial income share agreements in California
Lambda School, which just raised funding from Gigafund, GV, GGV, and Stripe, has received approval from a California state agency with a caveat.
An exec explains why Google Cloud is making a 'massive investment' in its partners and aims to have them involved in 100% of its new deals as it takes on Microsoft and Amazon
Amazon and Microsoft have established cloud partner networks. Google Cloud's partner program is relatively new, but it's investing heavily in it.
Python has overtaken Java as one of the hottest programming languages in the world, according to GitHub. Here's how a boom in AI jobs is helping developers use the easy-to-learn language to land six-figure salaries.
From the popular AI project TensorFlow to Facebook's Instagram, here's why Python has become so popular among developers.
The Latin American startup Yalochat just raised $15 million for its Salesforce and ServiceNow-competitor that lets users chat with customers over WhatsApp
Yalochat wants to take on Salesforce and ServiceNow by making it easier for companies to manage customers through messaging apps like WhatsApp.
Profitable Australian DevOps startup Buildkite explains how its new $28 million in funding will let it spread the word about being 'the best-kept secret in the developer tool space'
Buildkite, which sells continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) software, is taking on products like Jenkins, CircleCI, and more.
Data science startup Pachyderm, which just raised $16 million, says remote work has been 'a massive benefit' to its business
The data science startup Pachyderm raised funding from Microsoft's venture fund M12 and Cisco-backed Decibel Ventures, and here's what it plans to do.
A market research firm says Google Cloud is now the leading cloud in the retail industry, partially because retailers don't want to work with Amazon Web Services
Here's why the market research firm Canalys says Google Cloud is the leading cloud in retail, ahead of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Alibaba.
Google Cloud partners explain all the ways that the search giant is getting more flexible, from letting customers reallocate their cloud resources to helping developers pay for their own sales and marketing pushes
Google Cloud has to catch up to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, and partners say this flexibility can help it stand out in winning over customers.
Intercom, a $1.3 billion startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, just hired a CFO who says the company is 'near profitability' as it eyes an IPO
Intercom hired Dan Griggs as its new CFO to help the company scale. Griggs previously worked at the tech companies Sitecore and Rocket Fuel.
Google Cloud partner SADA Systems saw a 'massive slowdown' and missed sales targets at the start of the coronavirus crisis — but then beat its sales goals by 300% in Q2
SADA Systems saw more customers invest in moving to the cloud, and some customers even moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud to cut costs.
Samsara, a $5.4 billion IoT startup that laid off 300 employees and raised a down round in May, is betting its business on customers in 'industries that are ramping up to support the economy'
During the pandemic, Samsara has helped companies like Philz Coffee make sure employees are following coronavirus-related health guidelines.
A study co-authored by Microsoft found that developer interviews evaluate for stress, not actual coding skills. Now, companies are trying to fix that.
"We as an industry have inadvertently reinvented a stress test instead of an actual measure of technical skills," one researcher said.
Atlassian just told employees they can work from home permanently, following Twitter and Facebook
Atlassian now joins Twitter and Facebook in allowing employees to choose to work remotely even after the coronavirus pandemic ends.
Silicon Valley insiders say that the shift to remote work could finally make a dent in tech's diversity crisis. But companies will need to address several key challenges for the change to stick.
Executives at Box, IBM, Okta, and VMware expect remote work to increase diversity, but there are some key challenges ahead.