software News of 09/28/20

Want To Hire And Retain High-Quality Developers? Give Them Stimulating Work

Phil Alves Contributor Share on Twitter Devsquad founder and CEO Phil Alves is an expert entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the tech industry leading product development teams ...

Netflix Finally Comes To The Amazon Echo Show

Amazon announced the Echo Show line in 2017, and today, it’s finally gaining access to Netflix. The video service joins Hulu and Prime Video as the only officially supported video streaming apps.6 The news came from Amazon’s ...

Google Maps Gets A COVID-19 Layer

Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area. With the pandemic continuing to spread in many countries — and ahead of ...

Microsoft Launches New Cortana Features For Business Users

Cortana may have failed as a virtual assistant for consumers, but Microsoft is still betting on it (or at least its brand) for business use cases, now that it has rebranded it as a ‘personal productivity assistant’ as part of Microsoft ...

Microsoft Brings New Robotic Process Automation Features To Its Power Platform

Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired Softomotive , a player in the low-code robotic process automation space with a focus on Windows. Today, at its Ignite conference, the company is launching Power Automate Desktop, a new application based on ...

Microsoft Updates Its Endpoint Manager With Improved MacOS Support And More

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced a number of new features for the Microsoft Endpoint Manager , the company’s unified platform for managing and securing devices in an enterprise environment. The service, which combines ...

Microsoft’S Edge Browser Is Coming To Linux In October

Microsoft’s Edge browser is coming to Linux, starting with the Dev channel. The first of these previews will go live in October. When Microsoft announced that it would switch its Edge browser to the Chromium engine, it vowed to bring it ...

How To Make The Most Of IOS 14 Widgets And IPhone Home Screen Customization

You’ve probably seen the screenshots going around that show iOS home screens that differ considerably from the stock options that Apple provides. Yes, if you’re an Android user you’re probably laughing at iPhone owners for ...

President Trump Reportedly Has Approved The Oracle Deal For TikTok’S US Operations

President Donald Trump said has has given his stamp of approval “in concept” on the Oracle bid for the U.S. operations of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, according to a report from Bloomberg . According to the Bloomberg ...

JupiterOne Raises $19m Series A To Automate Cyber Asset Management

Asset management might not be the most exciting talking topic, but it’s often an overlooked area of cyber-defenses. By knowing exactly what assets your company has makes it easier to know where the security weak spots are. That’s the ...

Atlassian Launches A $50m Venture Fund To Invest In Its Ecosystem

Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Ventures, a new $50 million fund that will invest into startups — and even more established companies — that are building products in the overall Atlassian ecosystem. “As more ...

ZenHub’S New Automation Tools Improve Developer Hand-Offs In GitHub

ZenHub , the popular project management solution for GitHub users, today announced the launch of its new features for automating hand-offs between teams. The idea behind Automated Workflows, as it is called, is to remove some of the manual busywork ...

Courier Raises $10.1m Series A To Help Developers Integrate Multichannel Notifications

Courier is an API platform with a no-code twist that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their applications. The company today announced that it has raised a $10.1 million Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. ...

Airtable Raises $185m And Launches New Low-Code And Automation Features

The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive Capital led the round, with additional ...

Use ‘Productive Paranoia’ To Build Cybersecurity Culture At Your Startup

As any startup grows, getting new products out the door and securing that next round of funding are always top priorities. But security, all too often, falls by the wayside. After all, why would you invest money in something that you hope never ...

Join Us Wednesday, September 9 To Watch Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator Demo Day Live

The 2020 class of Techstars’ Starburst Space Accelerator are graduating with an official Demo Day on Wednesday at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET), and you can watch all the teams present their startups live via the stream above. This year’s class ...

Hasura Raises $25 Million Series B And Adds MySQL Support To Its GraphQL Service

Hasura , a service that provides developers with an open-source engine that provides them a GraphQL API to access their databases, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Previous ...

Progress Snags Software Automation Platform Chef For $220m

Progress , a Boston area developer tool company, boosted its offerings in a big way today when it announced it was acquiring software automation platform Chef for $220 million. Chef, which went 100% open source last year, had annual recurring ...

Diffblue Launches A Free Community Edition Of Its Automated Java Unit Testing Tool

Diffblue , a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that their code works as expected, increased ...

Apple Won’T Force Developers To Let Users Opt Out Of Tracking Until Next Year

At its global developer conference in June, Apple said its forthcoming iOS 14 update would allow users to opt out of in-app ad tracking, a privacy feature that quickly drew ire from advertising giants over fears that it would make it harder to ...