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Oracle moves its HQ from California to Texas

The Verge

Software giant Oracle moved the company headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, Bloomberg reported , the latest tech firm to depart Silicon Valley for the Lone Star State. BREAKING: Oracle just announced they have moved their Headquarters to Austin. Alex Castro. We will continue to attract the very best.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. Colorado houses existing tech giants such as IBM, Oracle and Lockheed Martin, as well as an emerging and thriving startup scene. Denver has more tech startups per capita than any U.S. A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s.

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Nigeria’s SeamlessHR raises $10M to expand HR and payroll solutions across Africa

TechCrunch

SeamlessHR has also eaten into the market share of legacy and “on-premise” systems like SAP and Oracle, commonly used by large companies locally. Localization of software also plays a part in SeamlessHR replacing these legacy systems in Nigeria. “We

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Accelerating Text Generation with Confident Adaptive Language Modeling (CALM)

Google Research AI blog

In one model variant, we also include a small early-exit classifier trained to classify if the local intermediate layer prediction is consistent with the top layer. First, we define a local confidence measure for capturing the model’s confidence in its intermediate prediction. decoder layers on average.

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Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup

TechCrunch

Legacy ERPs provided by companies such as SAP, Oracle and NetSuite (which is owned by Oracle) and local players like OBIC , are difficult to customize for users, according to Shibata.

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Fairmarkit lands $30M Series B to modernize procurement

TechCrunch

Fairmarkit wants to replace large procurement software systems from companies like Oracle and SAP that have been around for decades, says company co-founder and CEO Kevin Frechette. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $42 million, according to the company. Lightyear scores $3.7M

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This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

TechCrunch

As Vijayan tells it, he knew nothing about cars until joining Tesla in 2011, following a dozen years of working in product development at Oracle, then VMware. It’s the precise opportunity that former Tesla CIO, Jay Vijayan, concluded he was well-positioned to address while still in the employ of the electric vehicle giant.

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