Natalie Gagliordi

Key updates include the addition of Shops on WhatsApp and visual search on Instagram.

As part of the investment, Kenneth Hao, chairman and managing partner of Silver Lake, will join Splunk’s board of directors.

Shop Pay will soon be available to all merchants selling on Facebook, Instagram and Google, regardless of whether they use Shopify to power their online storefront.

SurveyMonkey said the new corporate brand name better conveys its portfolio of experience management services.

Einstein Relationship Insights (ERI) autonomously mines the web and disparate data sources to uncover account and contact information about customers, prospects, and companies.

The combination will create a standalone quantum computing company majority owned by Honeywell, the companies announced Tuesday.

Slack said that more than half of its revenue now comes from paid customers with greater than $100,000 in annual recurring revenue.

NetApp said the annualized revenue run rate (ARR) for its its public cloud services increased 171% year-over-year to $301 million.

The company says its as-a-service pivot is accelerating with consumption-based services orders rising 40% from a year ago.

Box beats Q1 expectations, raises fiscal 2021 guidance  ZDNet

Google Cloud expands partnership with Shopify, forms merchant integration with Square  ZDNet

Consumer tech spending fuels strong Q1 results for Best Buy  ZDNet

Autodesk reports strong Q1, says new business is accelerating  ZDNet

Nvidia said gaming revenue increased 106% from a year ago to $2.76 billion.

The company raised its guidance for the fiscal year and its Q4 guidance is strong.

Shopping Graph brings together information from websites, prices, reviews, videos and retailer product data, and calculates how those attributes relate to one another.

Big Blue said the deal will extend its Salesforce services and bolster its hybrid cloud business.

Google also announced an update to its password manager, including a new tool that imports passwords from third-party password managers.

Twilio plans to use Zipwhip’s technology to strengthen its messaging products.

With Kenna’s technology, Cisco plans to combine threat and risk-based vulnerability management as part of the SecureX platform.