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Reports: ZoomInfo looking to raise $934M+ in forthcoming IPO
ZoomInfo Technologies Inc., a software-as-a-service company set to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange Thursday, is reportedly looking to raise the pricing of its initial public offering at the last minute to seize upon strong investor demand. Vancouver, Washington-based ZoomInfo provides a market intelligence platform that sales and marketing teams at business-to-business companies use to ...
Microsoft rolls out Chromium-based Edge browser to Windows 10 devices globally
Microsoft Corp. has started rolling out a Windows 10 update that will bring its Chromium-based Edge browser to most of the billion-plus devices running the operating system worldwide. The company quietly detailed the rollout in a support article posted to its website, The Verge reported today. The update will be automatically downloaded via Windows 10’s built-in ...
ServiceNow debuts new vertical products to advance ‘industry solutions’ strategy
ServiceNow Inc. today advanced its plans of establishing a bigger foothold in vertical markets by introducing new products for telecommunications providers and financial firms. The announcement, made at the company’s digital Knowledge 2020 event, was accompanied by the release of new details about its healthcare sector ambitions. Publicly traded ServiceNow sells a platform used by enterprises to manage ...
Google patches two critical Android vulnerabilities that facilitated remote attacks
Google LLC’s June update for its Android operating system contains fixes to a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could enable hackers to remotely deploy malicious code on a victim’s mobile device. Google releases monthly patches for Android to mitigate security issues periodically found in the platform. The June update, released Monday, fixes a total of 34 flaws. ...
Dell launches AI systems with new VMware-powered GPU virtualization tech
Dell Technologies Inc. today announced two system families for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads that use vSphere Bitfusion, a new graphic card virtualization technology VMware Inc. revealed this morning. The systems are launching under the brands Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI and Dell EMC Ready Solutions for vHPC. Both are available immediately. The ...
Chef launches new programmatic security and desktop automation products
Infrastructure automation specialist Chef Software Inc. today unveiled two new products, Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop, aimed at providing a simplified way of enforcing cybersecurity policies across a company’s systems. Chef is backed by about $105 million in venture funding and counts more than half the Fortune 500 as users. It’s one of the bigger ...
Cisco postpones Cisco Live after Google, Sony delay events
Cisco Systems Inc. said on Monday evening that it’s postponing the virtual Cisco Live customer event it was scheduled to hold this week, a decision mirroring similar moves by other tech giants. “In light of what is going on in the world at this time, we have made the decision to postpone Cisco Live this week,” ...
Access management provider Thycotic buys Onion ID to expand product reach
Cybersecurity firm Thycotic Inc., whose software for managing employee passwords is used by a quarter of the Fortune 100, today announced that it has acquired fellow cybersecurity provider Onion ID Inc. and its three products. Thycotic and Onion ID both compete in the so-called privileged access management market. Their products help companies manage how employees ...
Cloudian’s new HyperIQ monitoring service uncovers storage and security issues
Cloudian Inc. today pulled back the curtains on HyperIQ, a monitoring service that will enable customers of its object storage platform to identify operational issues and suspicious activity in their environments. San Mateo, California-based Cloudian is backed by $173 million in funding from investors that include Goldman Sachs. The company sells an object storage software ...
Microsoft previews Azure Maps Creator to enable indoor location apps and AR
Microsoft Corp. today announced the preview of Azure Maps Creator, a new tool in its public cloud platform that will enable companies to create custom indoor maps for use cases such as finding misplaced employee laptops and building augmented reality applications. The tool joins Microsoft’s Azure Maps suite of location services. Azure Maps provides access to maps ...