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Amazon to acquire primary healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9B
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to acquire One Medical, a publicly traded primary healthcare provider, for $3.9 billion. The $3.9 billion price tag includes One Medical’s net debt and values the company at $18 per share. That represents a 76.8% premium to the company’s last closing price. One Medical, officially 1Life Healthcare Inc., operates a ...
SAP tops revenue expectations amid fast cloud growth
SAP SE surprised financial analysts today after reporting revenue of 7.51 billion euros for the second quarter ended June 30. Analysts polled for the Refinitiv consensus estimate had expected the company to post revenue of 7.32 billion euros. In constant currency, SAP’s second-quarter sales rose 5% year-over-year. One of the main contributors to SAP’s stronger-than-expected ...
Anvilogic raises $25M in funding to automate manual cybersecurity tasks
Anvilogic Inc., a startup with a cloud platform designed to reduce manual work for enterprise cybersecurity teams, today announced that it raised $25 million in new funding. Investment firm Neuberger Berman led the Series B funding round. Xerox Ventures, G Squared, Foundation Capital, Point72 Ventures and Cervin Ventures participated as well, bringing Anvilogic’s total outside ...
Amazon debuts new tools for Alexa developers
Amazon.com Inc. has introduced a set of software tools that will help developers more easily extend the capabilities of its Alexa voice assistant to new use cases. The tools made their debut today at the company’s Alexa Live 2022 event. Amazon enables developers to extend its voice assistant’s built-in feature set by building extensions known ...
Google Workspace receives approval to support more public sector workloads
Google LLC today announced that Google Workspace, its cloud-based productivity suite, has received Impact Level 4 authorization from the U.S. Defense Department. The authorization will enable government agencies to use Google Workspace for a broader range of tasks. As a result, it should advance the search giant’s efforts to grow the use of its cloud ...
Google details series of Russian hacking campaigns targeting Ukraine
Google LLC on Tuesday shared new details about a series of Russian state-sponsored hacking campaigns targeting Ukraine. The hacking campaigns were detected by the search giant’s Threat Analysis Group. Billy Leonard, a security engineer with the Threat Analysis Group, detailed the cyberattacks in a blog post. Google researchers have identified a hacking campaign in which Turla, ...
Zesty.ai raises $33M for its AI-powered climate risk platform
Zesty.ai Inc., a startup with a climate risk platform that provides data about wildfires, storms and other severe weather events, has raised $33 million in new financing. The company announced the investment this morning. It describes the investment as a Series B round that included a mix of equity and debt financing. Growth equity fund Centana ...
Push Security nabs $4M in funding to secure companies’ cloud applications
Push Security Ltd. today disclosed that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round to help companies secure cloud applications deployed by their employees. Decibel Partners led the round. It was joined by several other investors, including Duo Security Inc. co-founder Jon Oberheide and Haroon Meer, the founding chief executive of cybersecurity company Thinkst ...
Amazon sues administrators of 10,000 Facebook groups that spread fake product reviews
Amazon.com Inc. today said that it’s taking legal action to combat fake product reviews posted to its e-commerce platform. The company is suing the administrators of 10,000 Facebook groups that encourage users to post fake reviews on the Amazon Marketplace. According to the company, the groups focus on its e-commerce storefronts in the U.S., the ...
Apple reportedly set to slow hiring and spending next year, sending stocks down
Apple Inc. will slow spending in some areas next year and scale back hiring initiatives, Bloomberg reported today. The report didn’t go into much detail about how Apple plans to implement the cost reductions. However, Bloomberg’s sources did specify that the initiative won’t be implemented as a companywide policy. Only some business units will be ...