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Slack debuts new encryption and ‘information barrier’ features for enterprises
Slack Technologies Inc. today announced a set of new and upcoming security features to help enterprises protect data that employees share in chat channels. Slack’s main competitor in the enterprise market is Microsoft Corp’s Microsoft Teams. Today’s update will enable it to compete better with the security features offered by Teams in a number of areas, ...
Security startup Perimeter 81 lands $40M round after quadrupling revenues
Cybersecurity startup Perimeter 81 Ltd. today said that it has closed a $40 million funding round led by Insight Partners, its third capital raise in eight months, after seeing recurring revenues quadruple year-over-year. The investment follows a Series A round in November of 2019 and a $5 million seed raise in March of that year. ...
K2View raises $28M for its secure ‘micro-database’ technology
K2View Ltd. today announced that it has raised $28 million in funding to widen the adoption of its “micro-database” platform, which the startup says can reduce the risk of business records being hacked and simplify data projects. Forestay Capital led the round with participation from Genesis Partners. Dallas-based K2View sells a data management platform called ...
Google gives Android TV’s developer tooling an upgrade
Google LLC today updated its developer tools to make it easier to build apps for smart TVs powered by Android TV, a platform with an increasingly big role in its consumer hardware strategy. Android TV is a version of Google’s mobile operating system designed to power standalone displays. It’s an important part of the search giant’s effort ...
Facebook’s new open-source Pysa security tool detects hackable code
Facebook Inc. today launched Pysa, an open-source tool it has developed to catch vulnerable code snippets written by engineers before they make it into production. Pysa is designed exclusively to analyze code written in Python. That limits the scenarios where the tool can be applied, but it could be still useful for other companies because Python is ...
‘Achilles’ chip flaws in Android devices let hackers plant unremovable malware
Newly disclosed chip vulnerabilities that may affect a large number of Android devices can be abused by hackers to plant unremovable malware on users’ handsets and steal their data. The flaws were discovered by publicly traded cybersecurity provider Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The company plans to discuss the vulnerability series, which it has codenamed ...
AWS rolls out its Wavelength edge computing in first US locations
Wavelength, an edge computing service that Amazon Web Services Inc. is delivering with help from wireless carriers, today became generally available in Boston and San Jose, California. Use cases for the service range from video streaming to medical image analysis and factory monitoring. The idea behind Wavelength is to give latency-sensitive applications a speed boost ...
Telehealth giants Teladoc and Livongo ink $18.5B merger
Teladoc Health Inc. and Livongo Health Inc., two of the biggest names in the fast-growing telehealth market, said on Wednesday that they plan to merge in a transaction worth $18.5 billion. The deal is expected to close by year’s end. The combined company will operate under the Teladoc name with Teladoc Chief Executive Officer Jason ...
Oracle launches cloudified VMware service to scoop up more on-premises workloads
Oracle Corp. today launched the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, a VMware environment delivered as a service that the company says provides features not offered by any of the top infrastructure-as-a-service providers. The offering is available both on Oracle’s public cloud and its recently introduced on-premises private cloud platform. VMware Inc.’s virtualization software is used in ...
VMware and Intel team up to accelerate the shift to 5G
VMware Inc. and Intel Corp. today said that they’re developing a joint software platform to help telecommunications providers adopt vRAN technology, a core component of 5G. To deliver on the massive connectivity speedups that 5G promises to enable, carriers are having to make major changes to their infrastructure. One of the biggest changes is the ...