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Just Eat Takeaway.com exploring sale of Grubhub less than year after acquisition
Just Eat Takeaway.com NV today said that it’s exploring a sale of food delivery app Grubhub, which it acquired for $7.3 billion in a deal that closed less than a year ago. Publicly traded Just Eat Takeaway.com is a major player in the food delivery market. The Netherlands-based company emerged from the 2019 merger of ...
Report: Investment firm Apollo could back bid to take Twitter private
Investment firm Apollo Global Management Inc. could back an effort to take Twitter Inc. private, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday. Last week, Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk made an offer to acquire Twitter for $43 billion. A few days later, it was reported that private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC has also ...
ThreatLocker nabs $100M to block malware in enterprise networks
ThreatLocker Inc. today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round to build more features for its cybersecurity platform, which prevents malware from running on companies’ information technology infrastructure. General Atlantic led the Series C round. Existing ThreatLocker investors Elephant VC and Arthur Ventures participated as well. ThreatLocker’s platform allows a company to ...
Fortress raises $125M in funding to secure software supply chains
Startup Fortress Information Security LLC, whose technology helps protect 40% of the U.S. power grid from cybersecurity risks, has raised $125 million in funding. Fortress announced the investment today, detailing that it was provided entirely by Goldman Sachs’s private equity group. The company has raised a total of $160 million in funding since launch. The ...
Microsoft debuts Azure Managed Grafana to simplify IT monitoring
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Azure cloud platform with a new managed service, Azure Managed Grafana, that will make it easier for companies to find and troubleshoot technical issues in their cloud environments. The service is currently in preview. It’s the fruit of a collaboration with startup Grafana Labs Inc. that Microsoft announced last year. ...
Healthcare staffing platform Clipboard Health valued at $1.3B after raising $80M
Clipboard Health, a startup with an on-demand staffing platform for the healthcare sector, today announced that it has raised $80 million in funding. The funding was raised over two rounds: a $50 million round in 2021 and a $30 million investment that Clipboard Health closed earlier this year. The latter investment, which was led by ...
Investigation finds NSO Group spyware was used to target device in 10 Downing Street
Research group Citizen Lab has found that spyware made by NSO Group Ltd. was used to target a device connected to the network of 10 Downing Street, the office and residence of Britain’s prime minister. Citizen Lab, which is affiliated with the University of Toronto, detailed its findings today. The research group also revealed that ...
Google releases patch for high-severity Chrome vulnerability
Google LLC said Thursday that it’s releasing a security patch to fix a high-severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser. The vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-1364. Google is “aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1364 exists in the wild,” the company stated. Google’s patch for the vulnerability is set to roll out in the coming days and weeks. In ...
Report: Apple testing at least nine new Macs with next-generation M2 chips
Apple Inc. could soon refresh its Mac computer line with more than nine new machines, Bloomberg reported late Thursday. The new Macs, which include both laptops and desktops, are said to be powered by a next-generation chip known as the M2. It’s the successor to the M1 chip series that ships with Apple’s current computers. ...
Welcome Tech raises $30M in funding to grow its digital platform for immigrants
Welcome Tech Inc., a startup that provides a digital platform for the immigrant community, on Thursday announced that it has raised $30 million in funding. The funding was provided by a group of existing investors. TTV Capital, Owl Ventures, SoftBank Group Corp’s SB Opportunity Fund, Mubadala Capital and Next Play Capital were among the participants ...