In the restaurant space, Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) is the poster child for posting strong growth. But a few other casual-dining chains have also recently delivered strong quarterly results. On Tuesday, Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST) said that it had posted a loss for the second quarter, but sales jumped 30% to $219.1 million. Most of that surge came from the 127 Burger King restaurants that it bought in 2014 and 2015. The company owns and
Hortonworks (HDP) came through for investors who had bid up the Hadoop pioneer prior to the close Wednesday, issuing an after-hours earnings Q2 report that beat Wall Street estimates and offered revenue forecasts that strode past current views. Hortonworks reported adjusted losses of 80 cents a share, less than one-sixth the $5.26 loss in Q2 2014, and 4 cents ahead of forecasts from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The company’s revenue jumped
Data storage startup Tintri, a marketing partner of VMware (VMW), raised $125 million in a funding round, nearly doubling its venture capital investments. Mountain View, Calif.-based Tintri competes with NetApp (NTAP) as well as Nimble Storage (NMBL) and IBM (IBM). Tintri, founded by a former VMware executive, supports data storage in virtualized computing environments. The startup has been a partner of VMware since being founded in 2008. VMware’s