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AI-powered cybersecurity provider ExtraHop to be acquired for $900M
Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint are spending $900 million to acquire ExtraHop Networks Inc., a software company that uses hundreds of machine learning models deployed side-by-side to find threats lurking in enterprises’ cloud environments. The deal is at least the third private equity-backed acquisition of a major cybersecurity company in as many months. ExtraHop ...
Dozens of major news sites and cloud services briefly go offline after Fastly outage
An outage in the infrastructure of content delivery network operator Fastly Inc. briefly took dozens of major websites offline early today, including The New York Times, GitHub, the U.K. government’s online information portal, PayPal and many others. Fastly detected and rolled out a fix for the issue less than an hour after first flagging it on ...
Grafana Labs eases IT monitoring with Tempo tracing tool and new Grafana release
Grafana Labs Inc. announced two new product releases, Tempo 1.0 and Grafana 8.0, at a virtual user event today, aiming to provide companies with better visibility into the health of their technology infrastructure. New York-based Grafana Labs is the startup behind a popular open-source monitoring platform of the same name. The software is one of ...
Google fined $268M in France over ad platform practices
Google LLC said today that it has agreed to pay 220 million euros, or about $268 million, to settle an antitrust lawsuit in France over its business practices in the online advertising market. Google has also agreed to change a number of those business practices. The lawsuit Google is settling was brought by the French ...
Jeff Bezos will fly to space on a Blue Origin rocket
Jeff Bezos will fly to space on July 20 aboard a rocket built by his space flight company, Blue Origin Federation LLC. The Amazon.com Inc. founder, who announced the flight on Instagram, will be joined by his brother Mark Bezos and a third yet-undetermined passenger. Blue Origin is auctioning off the third seat aboard the ...
Facebook suspends Trump’s accounts for two years
Facebook Inc. said today that the accounts of former President Donald Trump will remain suspended until at least Jan. 7, 2023. The decision is a response to recommendations made by the company’s Oversight Board. Last month, the board upheld Facebook’s Jan. 7 decision to suspend Trump from Facebook and Instagram. In a statement accompanying the ...
SentinelOne files for IPO after landing $3B valuation in most recent funding round
Cybersecurity unicorn SentinelOne Inc. is moving to list its shares seven months after raising $267 million in funding from investors at a private valuation of $3 billion. The filing for the company’s upcoming initial public offering, which became public on Thursday, reveals that its revenues have more than doubled in its most recent quarter ended ...
Facebook open-sources Flores-101 dataset to enable more accurate AI translations
Facebook Inc. today open-sourced a dataset called Flores-101 for use in the development of artificial intelligence models that translate text between different languages. Building an AI model involves training a neural network on a large amount of information until it learns to identify useful patterns. Afterwards, developers check whether the AI generates sufficiently accurate results ...
Realtime Robotics raises $31.4M to develop chips for industrial robots
Realtime Robotics Inc., a Boston-based startup with chip technology that enables industrial robots to operate more safely and efficiently, has raised $31.4 million in fresh funding to support growth initiatives. The startup announced the Series A round today. The capital, Realtime Robotics says, was provided by a group of more than a half-dozen backers that ...
Snowflake, Dell and Salesforce back $110M round for data catalog unicorn Alation
Data management unicorn Alation Inc. has raised a $110 million funding round, announced this morning, from a group of high-profile investors led by Riverwood Capital. Riverwood Capital was joined in the Series D round by the startup investment arms of cloud-based data warehouse maker Snowflake Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., and Salesforce.com Inc., which is also ...