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‘Cyber fusion’ startup Cyware secures $30M in fresh funding
Cyware Labs Inc., a maker of so-called cyber fusion software designed to help companies more effectively protect their systems against hacking attempts, has closed a $30 million funding round led by Advent International and Ten Eleven Ventures. Announced today, the Series B investment also included the participation of several returning backers. Cyware has raised a ...
Cybersecurity provider IronNet to go public by merging with blank-check company
IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. today announced plans to merge with LGL Systems Acquisition Corp., a blank-check company, in a deal that will see the cybersecurity provider become publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The pro forma enterprise value of IronNet following the merger is expected to be $927 million. That implies a $1.2 billion ...
Cloud spreadsheet startup Airtable raises $270M more at $5.77B valuation
Airtable Inc. has closed a $270 million funding round at a hefty $5.77 billion valuation to fuel the growth of its namesake cloud service, which is used by teams at more than a quarter-million companies to organize their files and data. Greenoaks Capital led the round. WndrCo, Caffeinated Capital, CRV and Thrive Capital participated as ...
Taking aim at Intel, AMD debuts speedy new flagship server processors
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today revealed its latest central processor unit family for servers, the EPYC 7003 series, which features a speedy seven-nanometer chip process architecture and new security technologies. AMD says the series can provide over double the performance of Intel Corp. silicon for some enterprise cloud workloads. The EPYC 7003 series comprises 19 ...
Report: Microsoft looking into whether leaked data was used in Exchange hacks
Microsoft Corp. is looking into the possibility that the recent cyberattacks against Exchange Server email servers employed data leaked from its systems or those of its partners, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Exchange Server is a Microsoft-developed email and calendar platform popular in enterprises. At the beginning of March, the company revealed that hackers ...
Google and Microsoft trade jabs amid discussion over online news policy
Google LLC today accused Microsoft Corp. of “attacking rivals and lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests” after Microsoft suggested the U.S. should more strongly regulate the search and advertising giant. At the center of the companies’ dispute is the question of how Google should compensate the news outlets whose content it displays in ...
Database maker Couchbase reportedly files for IPO with eye to $3B valuation
Couchbase Inc., the maker of the popular NoSQL database of the same name, reportedly has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering that could value it at as much as $3 billion. That’s according to a report today from Reuters, which attributed the information to multiple sources. Another detail shared by the sources: Couchbase ...
Facebook aims to advance machine learning with two new video AI projects
Facebook Inc. today shared details about two internal artificial intelligence projects, Learning from Videos and TimeSformer, that are aimed at facilitating the development of more powerful machine learning models. With Learning from Videos, the first project, the company will train the machine learning systems powering its social network on clips uploaded by users. Facebook relies ...
Automation Anywhere rebrands its RPA platform as Automation 360
Automation Anywhere Inc. this morning introduced an updated version of its robotic process automation platform under a new brand: Automation 360. Additionally, the company said that the IQ Bot and Workbench modules of the platform have been enhanced to streamline the task of automating manual business processes. San Jose, California-based Automation Anywhere is a major ...
ServiceNow debuts new low-code app studio and AI features
ServiceNow Inc. today introduced new tools that will enable users to write custom apps without coding and find information they need for their work faster using artificial intelligence. The features are rolling out as part of the latest release of ServiceNow’s namesake cloud platform. The platform is used by companies to manage the parts of ...