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Gorgias nabs $30M to ease customer service for online retailers
Gorgias Inc., a startup with a customer service platform optimized for online retailers, today announced that it has closed a $30 million funding round. Transpose Platform and e-commerce software giant Shopify Inc. jointly led the Series C round. Gorgias is now reportedly valued at $710 million, up from $680 million before the investment. San Francisco-based ...
Unity rejects AppLovin’s $20B merger offer
Video game development specialist Unity Software Inc. has rejected a $20 billion merger offer from AppLovin Corp., a major provider of mobile advertising software. Unity announced the decision today. According to the company, its board has unanimously determined that the merger offer is “not in the best interests of Unity shareholders.” San Francisco-based Unity provides ...
Infrastructure specialist Nutanix to lay off 270 workers
Nutanix Inc. is reportedly laying off about 4% of its workforce, or approximately 270 employees, as part of a cost reduction initiative. The Information reported the move on Thursday. Nutanix, which sells software for managing information technology infrastructure, disclosed the layoffs in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company expects to ...
Google fined $42.7M in Australia over Android’s location tracking settings
Google LLC has agreed to pay a fine of 60 million Australian dollars, or about $42.7 million, to settle a lawsuit filed by Australia’s competition regulator over the location tracking settings in Android. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or ACCC, announced the fine today. The ACCC filed a lawsuit against Google and its Australian ...
Intel develops new chip technology to block hardware-based cyberattacks
Intel Corp. today detailed a new chip technology designed to help organizations more effectively block hardware-based hacking attempts. Some cyberattacks use vulnerabilities in the software installed on a server to steal data. Other cyberattacks target not the software that runs on a server, but rather the server itself. Hackers cause hardware malfunctions in a bid ...
FTC will explore new data privacy rules to regulate the tech industry
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today launched an effort to explore whether it should implement new rules to regulate the tech industry. As part of the initiative, the FTC has released a document known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, or ANPR for short. The ANPR invites members of the public to provide feedback ...
Google rolls out new AI features to improve search results
Google LLC has updated its search engine with new artificial intelligence capabilities that will help improve the accuracy of search results. Pandu Nayak, a Google Fellow and the company’s vice president of search, detailed the new AI features in a blog post published today. The features join the extensive set of existing AI capabilities that ...
Samsung debuts faster foldable devices and new smartwatches
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted its latest foldable devices, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the Galaxy Z Flip 4, and introduced two new smartwatches powered by a custom chip. The Fold 4 is a 7.6-inch tablet that can fold like a book to turn into a 6.2-inch smartphone. It has two separate displays, ...
CyberArk posts strong financial results and raises guidance
Publicly traded cybersecurity provider CyberArk Software Ltd. today reported strong financial results for the second quarter and raised its full-year revenue guidance. Shares of CyberArk are up more than 8% on the earnings report. Newton, Massachusetts-based CyberArk provides a software platform that helps companies manage worker access to their technology systems. The platform makes it ...
AWS, Splunk and other tech firms launch open-source cybersecurity data framework
Amazon Web Services Inc., Splunk Inc. and more than a dozen other tech firms have launched an open-source project designed to help companies respond to cyberattacks more effectively. The project, known as the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework, or OCSF, made its debut today. The development of the framework was initiated by AWS and Splunk. They ...