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Unstoppable Domains and partners launch Unstoppable Women of Web3 initiative
Startup Unstoppable Domains Inc. has teamed up with 70 organizations to launch Unstoppable Women of Web3, a new diversity and education initiative announced today. Unstoppable Domains is a nonfungible token domain name provider backed by investors that include Draper Associates and Boost VC. NFTs use blockchain technology to represent unique digital goods such as artwork, ...
Google acquires cybersecurity services provider Mandiant for $5.4B
Google LLC today announced that it’s acquiring Mandiant Inc., a publicly traded provider of cybersecurity services, for about $5.4 billion. The announcement comes a day after reports emerged that Google was holding acquisition talks with Mandiant. It was earlier reported that Microsoft Corp., one of Google’s major competitors, had also expressed interest in buying the ...
Cider Security raises $38M to secure software development environments
Cider Security, a startup helping companies secure the systems they use to develop software, today exited stealth mode and disclosed that it has raised $38 million in funding. Tiger Global led the Series A investment. Cider Security will use its newly raised funding to accelerate its engineering efforts and establish more offices worldwide. The startup, which ...
Amazon acquires e-commerce technology startup Veeqo
Amazon.com Inc. has acquired e-commerce technology startup Veeqo Ltd., CNBC reported today. Amazon confirmed the acquisition in a statement. “We’re excited Veeqo has joined Amazon,” the company said. “We plan to continue investing in new features and improvements to help Veeqo serve sellers globally from its home in Wales, facilitate growth for sellers’ multi-channel businesses, ...
Intel’s Mobileye unit files for IPO at reported $50B+ valuation
Intel Corp. today said that Mobileye, its autonomous driving unit, has filed to go public with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The chipmaker didn’t disclose financial details such as the number of shares to be sold in its announcement of the move. However, Intel did share a few key details about the planned stock ...
Flying taxi startup Volocopter raises $170M in funding
Volocopter GmbH, a startup developing flying taxis and cargo drones, today announced that it has raised $170 million in funding at a pre-money valuation of $1.7 billion. The investment was led by South Korea-based WP Investment with participation from Atlantia, Whysol, btov Partners and others. The new funding is the first tranche of a larger ...
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman buys 7.5% stake in Splunk
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman Inc. has acquired a 7.5% stake in Splunk Inc. Hellman & Friedman confirmed the investment in a regulatory filing. The Wall Street Journal reported the move today. San Francisco-based Splunk provides a widely used data analytics platform of the same name. Companies use the platform to find and troubleshoot technical ...
Microsoft suspends new sales in Russia as other tech firms take similar steps
Microsoft Corp. is suspending all new sales in Russia following similar moves from other major tech firms including Apple Inc. and Google LLC. Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith announced the move in a blog post this morning. “We are announcing today that we will suspend all new sales of Microsoft products and services ...
VISO Trust raises $11M for its cybersecurity evaluation platform
Startup VISO Trust, which helps enterprises ensure that the cloud services and other technology products they use are secure, has raised a $11 million funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Work-Bench, Sierra Ventures and Lytical Ventures also participated in the round, which was announced today. The investment firms were joined by three prominent cybersecurity ...
Graphcore debuts 3D AI chip with new wafer-on-wafer technology
Chip startup Graphcore Ltd. today introduced a new artificial intelligence processor, the Bow IPU, that uses an innovation dubbed wafer-on-wafer technology to speed up calculations. U.K.-based Graphcore is backed by more than $680 million in venture funding. The startup has shipped tens of thousands of AI processors in recent years to customers such as cloud ...