Company to cut 10% of workforce

Company to cut 10% of workforce

Daniel Dines, Co-founder & CEO at UiPath addresses the audience during the third day of the Web Summit 2021 at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon.  Bruno de Carvalho | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UiPath, a developer of automation software, is cutting 10% of its workforce, or about 420 jobs, as part of … Read more

Tech founders are shunning IPOs after extended market lull: Techstars

Tech founders are shunning IPOs after extended market lull: Techstars

Pedestrians pass the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Silicon Valley is known for producing tech businesses that start in garages and turn into massive publicly traded companies ubiquitously known across the globe. From Oracle and Microsoft to Google and Facebook, the public … Read more

After ChatGPT and the rise of chatbots, investors pour into AI agents

After ChatGPT and the rise of chatbots, investors pour into AI agents

Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Earlier this year, financial services company Klarna said its artificial intelligence agent, powered by OpenAI, had taken over two-thirds of customer chats and was doing work equivalent to that of 700 full-time agents. That was after just one month of use. Alexander Kvamme, CEO of customer engagement startup … Read more

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Salesforce executives told investors that deals are shrinking or getting delayed. Dell said its margin is getting smaller. Okta highlighted macroeconomic challenges. And Veeva’s CEO said on his company’s earnings call that generative artificial intelligence has been “a competing priority” for customers. Add it all up and it was a brutal week for software and … Read more

UiPath shares tank 30% after company announces CEO shakeup

UiPath shares tank 30% after company announces CEO shakeup

Daniel Dines, billionaire and co-founder of UiPath Inc., at the automation software company’s offices in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, May 20, 2021.  Andrei Pungovschi | Bloomberg | Getty Images UiPath shares plunged more than 30% on Wednesday after the software company said CEO Rob Enslin is resigning effective June 1, and being replaced by co-founder … Read more