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Oracle faces privacy lawsuit over data collection practices
Oracle Corp. is facing a new privacy lawsuit in California over its data collection practices, TechCrunch reported today. The lawsuit was filed on Friday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs are Johnny Ryan, a senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Michael Katz-Lacabe, the director of ...
Financial technology specialist CSI to be acquired for $1.6B
Investment firms Centerbridge Partners and Bridgeport Partners are acquiring financial technology company Computer Services Inc. in a $1.6 billion deal. CSI announced the acquisition this morning. The deal’s $1.6 billion price tag values the company at $58 per share, a 53% premium to the Friday closing price of its stock. Founded in 1965, CSI provides ...
Incorta enhances its analytics platform with new data applications
Incorta Inc. today introduced a set of new features for its data analytics platform that will enable companies extract useful insights more easily from their business information. San Mateo, California-based Incorta is backed by more than $190 million in funding from investors such as Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund. The startup provides a cloud-based platform that ...
Salesforce expands cloud portfolio with new Easy CRM offering
Salesforce Inc. today introduced Easy CRM, a new offering designed to help companies more easily adopt its customer relationship management platform. Companies use Salesforce’s CRM platform to store data about sales opportunities. As part of its product portfolio, the software-as-a-service giant also provides a variety of other products for performing tasks such as running marketing ...
Report: TikTok’s in-app browser can track users’ website activity
TikTok can track how users interact with websites that they access through the app’s built-in browser, Forbes reported on Thursday. TikTok enables users to open websites through the app interface by tapping on links and ads. The app doesn’t load websites in an external browser such as Chrome, but rather uses a built-in browser. That ...
Report: Qualcomm plans to return to the server chip market
Qualcomm Inc. plans to return to the server chip market four years after exiting the segment, Bloomberg reported today. Sources familiar with Qualcomm’s plans told Bloomberg that company is seeking customers for a new processor built to power servers. According to the sources, Amazon Web Services Inc. has agreed to evaluate the processor. AWS, the ...
Google will update its search engine to prioritize high-quality content more effectively
Google LLC will update its search engine to display high-quality content more prominently in search results pages. The update will begin rolling out next week, Google detailed in its announcement of the move today. It’s the latest in a series of enhancements that the company has released since the start of the year to improve ...
Google adds more breach detection features to its Chronicle cybersecurity platform
Google LLC is updating its Chronicle cybersecurity platform with new features that will enable enterprises to provide more effective detection of cyberattacks targeting their infrastructure. The company announced the update today. Chronicle is a SIEM, or security information and event management, platform provided by Google. A SIEM platform is a type of cybersecurity application that can ...
Google Cloud to discontinue its IoT Core service in 2023
Google LLC’s cloud business has notified customers that its IoT Core service for managing connected devices will be discontinued, TechCrunch reported today. Google plans to discontinue the service on Aug. 16, 2023. The search giant recommends that customers begin moving applications built on IoT Core to other products in the same category. Companies are deploying ...
HiBob raises $150M for its cloud-based HR platform
Human resource management startup HiBob today announced that it has raised $150 million in a late-stage funding round, less than a year after closing another $150 million investment. HiBob’s latest raise, a Series D round, was led by General Atlantic at a $2.45 billion valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners and a number of existing investors participated ...