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Published on March 20, 2025

Broadcom Will Close Its Acquisition of VMware This Week

The companies announced today that the $69 billion deal received its final regulatory approval.

Jeremy Porr Jeremy Porr
Updated on March 20, 2025

Figma Raises $50 Million in Series D Round at $2 Billion Valuation

Figma’s multiplayer design tool allows for multiple software developers to work together on the same web page simultaneously.

Jeff Link Jeff Link
Updated on March 20, 2025

What Sets MURAL, Miro, and InVision’s Freehand Apart?

We spoke with the makers of the world’s most popular digital whiteboards.

Jeremy Porr Jeremy Porr
Updated on March 20, 2025

Instrumental Raises $20M, Plans ‘Aggressive’ Hiring Push

The company’s software collects images from key states of an assembly line and presents any defects or errors in a traceable data record that can be accessed remotely.

Kelly O'Halloran Kelly O'Halloran
Updated on March 20, 2025

How to Practice and Improve Cultural Competency

Inside what experts call the most important skill for diversity in the workplace. 

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Stephen Ostrowski Stephen Ostrowski
Updated on March 20, 2025

21 Bay Area Companies to Watch in 2021

Big funding rounds. Groundbreaking tech. Hiring sprees. Here’s what to know about your local tech scene this year.

Will Pearson Will Pearson
Updated on March 20, 2025

5 Reasons for Ignoring Email Marketing — Debunked!

There are lots of excuses for not focusing on your email marketing program, and they all have one thing in common: They’re wrong.

5 Reasons for Ignoring Email Marketing — Debunked!
Olivia McClure Olivia McClure
Updated on March 20, 2025

3 Engineering Leaders Share Their Teams’ Exciting Projects for 2025

From a platform migration to enhanced AI capabilities, these are the projects keeping engineers busy at Kikoff, Thumbtack and Xero.

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Jeremy Porr Jeremy Porr
Updated on March 20, 2025

Natural Language Processing Platform Primer Raises $110M Series C

Primer’s natural language processing (NLP) platform is used for transcription services and, beyond that, can also be used to analyze text and write a summary. Primer’s NLP technology can read and write in English, Russian, Chinese and Arabic.

Mae Rice Mae Rice
Updated on March 20, 2025

Atlassian’s San Francisco Office Has Its Own (Mini) Golden Gate Park

This workspace is part office, part tour of the city.

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