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Startup Solid Financial Technologies Inc. today announced that it has secured a $63 million funding round led by FTV Capital. The Series B round also included the participation of venture capital firm Headline, which led Solid’s previous Series A raise in October …
Palo Alto Networks adds new AI features to its Prisma SASE platform
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is expanding its Prisma SASE platform, with new artificial intelligence features for detecting cyberattacks. Palo Alto Networks is a major provider of enterprise cybersecurity software with more than $4 billion in annual revenues. Prisma SASE, the platform that …
Instant delivery startup Gopuff reportedly raising up to $300M in debt financing
Gopuff, an instant delivery startup that received a $15 billion valuation last year, is reportedly seeking to raise as much as $300 million in new debt financing. The Wall Street Journal reported the news today, citing sources familiar with the startup’s plans. …
IBM and VMware expand their technology partnership
IBM Corp. and VMware Inc. are expanding their long-running partnership to better support customers’ information technology modernization initiatives. The companies announced the move today at the VMware Explore 2022 conference in San Francisco. The expanded alliance places a particular emphasis on public …
VMware expands multicloud portfolio at VMware Explore 2022 with new offerings
VMware Inc. today introduced a flurry of new products and features that will enable enterprises to manage their multicloud environments more efficiently. The new additions to VMware’s product portfolio, which made their debut at the company’s VMware Explore 2022 conference, span multiple …
FTC files lawsuit against data broker Kochava
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit in which it accuses Kochava Inc., an Idaho-based data broker, of selling geolocation data that can be used to track consumers’ movements. The FTC announced the lawsuit today. Kochava is a so-called data …
StarTree secures $47M in funding for its user-facing analytics platform
StarTree Inc., a startup commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot data analytics platform, today announced that it has secured $47 million in a new funding. The Series B funding round follows a $24 million Series A investment that StarTree announced last May. GGV …
Teradata debuts new VantageCloud product suite to ease data analytics in the cloud
Teradata Corp. today launched VantageCloud, a suite of products designed to help companies more easily extract insights from their business data. Publicly traded Teradata is a major player in the data management market. The company sells a data platform that organizations use …
T-Mobile partners with SpaceX to provide satellite-powered network connectivity
T-Mobile US Inc. will use SpaceX Corp.’s Starlink satellite network to provide cellular coverage to customers, the companies announced on Thursday. Starlink is a constellation of internet satellites deployed in low Earth orbit. It’s designed to provide connectivity in areas that are …
Enterprise software maker OpenText to acquire Micro Focus for $6B
Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. will acquire Micro Focus International plc, another major player in the enterprise software market, for $6 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Thursday. The $6 billion that OpenText is offering values U.K.-based Micro Focus at 5.32 …