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24 Sep 2019, 17:30

Sentry, a startup co-founded by a former Dropbox engineer that helps developers run more reliable code, just raised $40 million

Sentry Sentry co-founder and CEO David Cramer On Tuesday, the software monitoring startup Sentry announced it...

22 Sep 2019, 18:15

Barack Obama shares the leadership lesson he learned from raising his daughters Malia and Sasha: Different people require different approaches

Associated Press/Evan Vucci President Barack Obama, with daughters Sasha, left, and Malia, makes a joke durin...

21 Sep 2019, 05:49

A former employee of an IT startup was upset about a contract with ICE. The outage he triggered has exposed a big new risk for companies using open source.

Chef Chef CEO Barry Crist On Thursday, several customers of the IT automation s...

21 Sep 2019, 00:05

The CEO of NPM, a startup that provides a crucial service to 11 million developers, has resigned after a year-long tenure marked by controversy

Inktank Former NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger On Friday, NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger...

14 Sep 2019, 19:00

A top VMware exec explains how it avoided getting crushed by Microsoft in its early days - and the lesson startups can learn from it

VMware VMware COO Sanjay Poonen VMware COO Sanjay Poonen says that in its early days, Microsoft could have "o...

10 Sep 2019, 22:45

$20 billion Stripe is making a new global push with the product that's helping open source developers on GitHub get paid for the code they write

Reuters/Albert Gea Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison On Tuesday, $20 b...

30 Aug 2019, 04:02

The hot Silicon Valley coding bootcamp Lambda School is paying a $75,000 fine for not registering properly with the state of California

Lambda School Austen Allred, CEO and co-founder of Lambda School In July, the online coding bootcamp Lambda S...

30 Aug 2019, 02:20

SAP's global operations boss says that the US/China trade war is causing so much uncertainty, companies are reassessing their entire supply chains

SAP Adair Fox-Martin is an SAP exec team member Adair Fox-Martin, an SAP execut...

30 Aug 2019, 01:18

React, a popular open source project that started at Facebook, is adopting a new code of conduct after several people on Twitter called out racism in the community

Robert Galbraith/Reuters Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Starting l...

29 Aug 2019, 00:15

The Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's largest conference for women in tech, has dropped Palantir as a sponsor over its work with ICE

Selena Larson/ReadWrite The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world's largest conference for women in computing...

26 Aug 2019, 23:25

A Splunk executive explains why the company couldn't waste any time acquiring SignalFx for $1 billion, in Splunk's biggest acquisition ever

Splunk SignalFx CEO Karthik Rau and Splunk CEO Doug Merritt On Wednesday, Splunk announced it would acquire t...

24 Aug 2019, 05:02

Wall Street wasn't expecting much from Salesforce earnings, but its results and its $15.7 billion Tableau acquisition proved them wrong

Melia Robinson/Business Insider Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff Analysts say Salesforce's stock had been slowi...

23 Aug 2019, 00:49

Palantir workers are split over the company's work with ICE, but CEO Alex Karp won't budge despite concerned employees' petitions

Rosalie Chan Activists protest in front of Palantir's cafeteria in Palo Alto, CA. Palantir employees are divi...

20 Aug 2019, 21:45

Everything you need to know about PyTorch, the world's fastest-growing AI project that started at Facebook and powers research at Tesla, Uber, and Genentech

Ben Margot/AP Photo Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg PyTorch, an arti...

17 Aug 2019, 05:29

Protesters blocked Palantir's cafeteria to pressure the $20 billion big data company to drop its contracts with ICE

Rosalie Chan Activists protest in front of Palantir's cafeteria in Palo Alto, CA On Friday, about 70 people p...

13 Aug 2019, 01:17

NPM, a startup 11 million developers rely on, is tangled in a bitter cultural battle as it tries to actually make money

NPM NPM cofounder Isaac Schlueter NPM is a small startup that provides a crucial JavaScript tool to 11 millio...

11 Aug 2019, 21:15

Despite the looming threat of Amazon's cloud, some software companies are going all in on free software. Others are fighting back

REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Companies like Confluent, Redis Labs, and Elastic offer open s...

02 Aug 2019, 02:12

Software intelligence company Dynatrace soared 49% on its first day of trading, and its top execs explain how a 'technology refresh' helped the company grow

Dynatrace Dynatrace CTO Bernd Greifeneder and CEO John Van Siclen On Thursday, ...

29 Jul 2019, 22:54

'Data is the epicenter of the AI revolution': How AI is disrupting the data center and enterprise IT markets

Samantha Lee/Business Insider The convergence of data and cloud technology has enabled businesses of all size...

27 Jul 2019, 06:27

Salesforce is entering the Chinese market amid the tech cold war, and experts say it's a smart move: 'Whoever has success in China is likely to be a global winner as well'

REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Salesforce co-founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff Salesforc...

23 Jul 2019, 19:30

DevOps startup CircleCI raised $56 million to supercharge how programmers push code

CircleCI The CircleCI executive team includes from left to right, CEO Jim Rose, CTO Rob Zuber, CFO Chitra Balasubramanian, C...

22 Jul 2019, 18:30

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded company that's trying to build human-like artificial intelligence

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Microsoft announced Monday that it will partner with artificial intelligence researc...

Enterprise software

After Freshworks, Icertis is looking for an IPO for next year in the US

Freshworks files for an IPO in the US, looks to raise $100 million

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is making its first cybersecurity investment in a $37 million deal with two former Air Force pilots