John Deere partners with Kespry to bring drones and aerial data to construction and forestry

 Heavy equipment makers Deere & Co., better known as John Deere, have forged a strategic alliance…

Farmers Business Network cultivates $40 million to help farmers buy seeds at favorable prices

 GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and DBL Partners co-led a $40 million investment in Farmers…

Salesforce Einstein AI can generate models automatically

 When Salesforce announced its spring release this week, it revealed that its artificial intelligence platform, dubbed…

Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka

 Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced…

Amazon’s AWS buys Thinkbox Software, maker of tools for creative professionals

 It looks like Amazon’s AWS has made another acquisition to add more productivity tools for its customers beyond…

Spammers expose over a billion email addresses after failed backup

 At its height, River City Media, run by Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferris, sent out a…

Okta acquihires Stormpath, doubles down on identity in apps and APIs

 Okta, the $1.2 billion identity management startup for enterprises that some tip for an IPO this…

IBM adds new API to quantum computing cloud service

 IBM announced today that it was updating its Quantum Experience cloud with a new API that…