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Google Cloud and Workspace get new batch of cybersecurity features
Google LLC today added new cybersecurity features to Google Cloud and its Workspace productivity suite, formerly G Suite, including a set of machine learning models for preventing data leaks. The update is rolling out a few days after Google’s Cloud Spanner database received cybersecurity upgrades as well. The machine learning models included in today’s update ...
With $800M in fresh funding, MessageBird acquires rival startup SparkPost
MessageBird B.V., a Dutch startup with a so-called omnichannel communications platform for managing customer interactions, has raised $800 million in funding to acquire SparkPost Inc., a U.S.-based rival. The startup is paying $600 million for SparkPost. Both the acquisition and the funding, which comes as an extension to a $200 million Series C round MessageBird ...
With new Kasten K10 release, Veeam takes on Kubernetes ransomware
Data protection giant Veeam Inc. has introduced a new release of its Kasten K10 software platform with immutability features for defending Kubernetes environments against ransomware attacks. Veeam obtained Kasten K10 after acquiring a venture-backed startup of the same name last October. The platform was created to address the fact that Kubernetes, which helps automate the ...
Vena Solutions raises $242M to make enterprise financial planning more efficient
Vena Solutions Inc. today said that it has raised $300 million Canadian dollars, or about $242 million, to expand the adoption of its namesake software platform, which is used by companies such Nike Inc. and Nutanix Inc. to manage their finances. The Series C round was led by Vista Equity Partners. Vena’s software platform enables ...
Apple’s App Store in the spotlight as EU reportedly preparing antitrust charges
The European Union could file antitrust charges against Apple Inc. as soon as this week over App Store policies that allegedly harm the competition. That’s according to a report today in the Financial Times, which attributed the information to multiple sources with “direct knowledge” of the matter. The insiders added that there’s a chance the ...
Dell and Red Hat target new joint reference architecture at carriers
Dell Technologies Inc. and IBM Corp.’s Red Hat have jointly developed an infrastructure reference architecture to assist telecommunications companies with the upgrade to 5G. The architecture was detailed today at the virtual Red Hat Summit. The telecommunications sector’s switch to the high-speed 5G standard, which enables connections many times faster than LTE or 4G, consists ...
Apple reveals plans to invest $430B in US over five years
Apple Inc. today announced that it will invest $430 billion in the U.S. over the next five years as part of an expansion initiative that includes, among other things, plans to spend “tens of billions of dollars” on developing chip and networking technologies. The iPhone maker expects to create more than 20,000 new positions in ...
Thoma Bravo inks $12.3B deal to acquire cybersecurity specialist Proofpoint
Publicly traded cybersecurity provider Proofpoint Inc. today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a prominent private equity firm, in a $12.3 billion all-cash transaction. The deal is set to net a sizable return for Proofpoint’s shareholders. Thoma Bravo has offered to pay $176 per share of the company, about 34% ...
Panasonic inks $7.1B deal to acquire supply chain software firm Blue Yonder
Electronics giant Panasonic Corp. today announced that it has signed a $7.1 billion agreement to acquire Blue Yonder Inc., a developer of software for managing enterprise supply chains. The deal comes less than a year after Panasonic purchased a 20% stake in Blue Yonder. Of the $7.1 billion the company is spending on the transaction, ...
Apache Kafka startup Confluent confidentially files for IPO
Confluent Inc., a unicorn startup commercializing the Kafka open-source data platform, divulged on Thursday that it’s headed to the stock exchange. In a brief announcement, the company said that it has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares to be sold and the ...