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Market research startup YipitData raises late-stage funding round worth up to $475M
Market research startup YipitData Inc. on Monday announced that it has secured a late-stage funding round set to be worth as much as $475 million. The impressive funding round has led to considerable speculation about YipitData’s valuation, with industry insiders suggesting that it reflects the company’s strong market position and promising growth trajectory. Carlyle Group ...
Permira to take email security provider Mimecast private in $5.8B deal
Private equity firm Permira is buying Nasdaq-traded cybersecurity company Mimecast Ltd. in an acquisition worth approximately $5.8 billion. The transaction was announced this morning but was reported some time ago: Word first emerged that Mimecast was exploring a sale in late October. Permira’s $5.8 billion offer, which amounts to $80 per Mimecast share, represents a ...
Delivery robot startup Serve Robotics raises $13M after spinning off from Uber
Serve Robotics Inc. has raised $13 million in seed funding from Uber Technologies Inc., 7-Eleven Inc. and other investors to grow its fleet of sidewalk delivery robots. The company announced the funding round this morning. In addition to growing its robot fleet, the startup plans to expand to more markets and accelerate product development activities. San ...
Customer experience specialist Genesys valued at $21B after $580M funding round
Genesys Cloud Services Inc., a major provider of customer experience management software, today announced that it has closed a $580 million funding round at a $21 billion valuation. The venture capital arm of Salesforce.com Inc. led the funding round. The software-as-a-service giant was joined by ServiceNow Ventures, Zoom Video Communications Inc., BlackRock, D1 Capital Partners ...
Observability startup LogDNA raises $50M in funding
Observability startup LogDNA Inc. today announced that it has secured a $50 million funding round to hire more people and accelerate its plans to launch a new data processing solution next year. The funding round was led by cybersecurity-focused investment firm NightDragon. Emergence Capital and Initialized Capital participated as well. The company has raised $110 million ...
Report: 9 State Department officials’ iPhones were hacked with NSO Group spyware
The iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using spyware from Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group, Reuters reported today. Reuters cited sources as saying that the breaches took place over the past few months. The cyberattacks reportedly targeted State Department employees who are based in Uganda or ...
Report: Google could launch its first internally developed smartwatch in 2022
Google LLC is developing a new smartwatch and could launch the device as soon as next year, according to two reports published on Thursday. The smartwatch would be the first from Google to have been created in-house by the company. The Alphabet Inc. unit already sells smartwatches, but they’re made by Fitbit, a company that ...
AWS releases preview of Cloud WAN to simplify enterprise network operations
The latest addition to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s lineup of networking solutions is AWS Cloud WAN, announced today at re:Invent, which allows enterprises to link together their cloud environments, on-premises data centers and branch offices. WAN is short for wide-area network. A company’s WAN is the data transportation infrastructure through which its disparate technology assets ...
AWS speeds up user interface development with AWS Amplify Studio
Amazon Web Services Inc. is making it easier to build user interfaces for web applications with the introduction of a new cloud-based development tool called AWS Amplify Studio. Amplify Studio, which made its debut during the cloud giant’s re:Invent event today, is part of an existing service called AWS Amplify. The latter service reduces the ...
AI researcher Timnit Gebru launches Distributed AI Research Institute
Prominent artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru has launched a new nonprofit lab called the Distributed AI Research Institute, Wired reported today. “Instead of fighting from the inside, I want to show a model for an independent institution with a different set of incentive structures,” Gebru told the publication. Gebru, the founder and executive director of ...