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PagerDuty Inc. today said that it will spend about $100 million to acquire Rundeck Inc., the maker of a popular software tool for troubleshooting technical issues in information technology systems. The deal, announced as PagerDuty holds its annual conference virtually today and tomorrow, …
Trump signals ByteDance must offload TikTok stake or deal won’t be approved
The effort to reach a deal that would salvage the U.S. operations of TikTok took another turn today after President Donald Trump signaled a deal would be approved only if TikTok parent’s company, ByteDance Ltd., offloaded its entire stake in the app. …
Trump OKs deal for Oracle and Walmart to operate TikTok in US
President Trump said Saturday that he has agreed at least in concept to a deal for video-sharing app TikTok on a partnership with Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. to become a U.S.-based company, appearing to end a long series of negotiations. “I …
Mobile banking startup Chime lands $485M mega-round at $14.5B valuation
Chime Financial Inc. today became the most valuable financial technology startup in the U.S. after announcing that it has closed a $485 million round at a $14.5 billion valuation. The investment is the third raised by the startup in six months. Chime …
Ericsson snaps up Cradlepoint for $1.1B to bring 5G to the enterprise
Ericsson, one of the world’s top suppliers of telecommunications equipment, today said that it’s buying enterprise networking firm Cradlepoint Inc. in a $1.1 billion deal that’s expected to close before year’s end. Sweden-based Ericsson makes base stations and related technologies that carriers use …
Facebook targets small businesses with new page management tool
Facebook Inc. today introduced a new tool called Business Suite that small and medium-sized businesses can use to centrally manage their social media page centrally. The tool has the potential to boost Facebook’s core ad business by making it easier for SMBs, which …
JupiterOne closes $19M round to flag vulnerable assets in the corporate network
JupiterOne Inc. today said that it has raised $19 million in funding to expand the feature set and adoption of its cybersecurity platform, which enables administrators to find potentially vulnerable systems inside the corporate network. JupiterOne started out as an internal project …
Accenture to invest $3B in new 70,000-person Cloud First business unit
Consulting giant Accenture plc is investing $3 billion in forming a new business unit that will focus on helping enterprises adopt the public cloud. The Cloud First group, which Accenture announced today, comprises about 70,000 professionals who will work under the leadership of …
WANdisco launches LiveData Migrator to move on-premises Hadoop data to the cloud
WANdisco PLC today launched LiveData Migrator, a product it says enables companies to move data in on-premises Hadoop clusters to the cloud with considerably less hassle than what the process normally involves. San Ramon, California-based WANdisco provides software tools for automating the migration of …
Google details RigL algorithm for building more efficient neural networks
Google LLC today detailed RigL, an algorithm developed by its researchers that makes artificial intelligence models more hardware-efficient by shrinking them. Neural networks are made up of so-called artificial neurons, individual mathematical operations implemented in code, that are linked together by software …