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Palo Alto Networks turns $560M Demisto buy into new XSOAR security platform
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is making its presence felt at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today with the introduction of Cortex XSOAR, a new security automation platform that builds on its $560 million acquisition of Demisto Inc. last year. Demisto is one of the half-dozen security startups that Palo Alto Networks has bought since ...
With new release, CrowdStrike targets Google Cloud, Azure and container adopters
After bringing its flagship Falcon endpoint protection platform to Amazon Web Services last year, CrowdStrike Inc. is adding better support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Google Cloud to court enterprises with heterogeneous cloud environments. The company unveiled the update today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Falcon is used by organizations to protect cloud ...
Report: SpaceX is looking to raise $250M at a $36B valuation
SpaceX Corp. is planning a funding round for next month with the goal of raising about $250 million at a $36 billion valuation, according to a new report. CNBC today cited insiders as saying that Elon Musk’s rocket company is aiming to close the investment in the second week of March. SpaceX will reportedly sell ...
Volocopter raises $40M more for its autonomous flying taxis
Volocopter GmbH, a German startup developing giant drones for ferrying passengers and cargo, today announced that it has secured 37 million euros ($40 million) in fresh funding to pursue its vision of autonomous air transportation. The raise comes as an extension to the 50 million euro Series C round Volocopter bagged last September. German logistics ...
Amid antitrust pressure, Apple reportedly weighs letting users change default apps
Apple Inc. is reportedly weighing a plan to let users change some default apps on iPhones and iPads, a move that, if implemented, would represent a major reversal in the company’s “walled garden” strategy for iOS. The news comes by way of a Bloomberg report published today that cited the usual “people familiar with the ...
Kronos and Ultimate Software to merge into $22B cloud HR behemoth
Kronos Inc. and The Ultimate Software Group Inc., two of the industry’s biggest providers of human resources software, today said they plan to merge into a single company that will be valued at $22 billion including debt. The deal is an all-stock transaction that’s expected to close at the end of March. Lowell, Massachusetts-based Kronos, whose ...
ZeroFox raises $74M to combat deepfakes and other cybersecurity threats beyond hacking
Malware and network breaches aren’t the only cybersecurity threats enterprises have to worry about these days. There are numerous other risks online, from spear-phishing emails to deepfakes, that can potentially pose just as big a problem for a company as a hacked server. Baltimore-based ZeroFox Inc. has built its business on combating these kinds of ...
Google launches Android 11 preview with stronger privacy, virtual driver’s license support and more
Google LLC today rolled out the first preview version of Android 11, the next major iteration of its mobile operating system, in a launch that’s about a month earlier than previous years. The main audience the Android 11 Preview targets are developers who need to start testing their apps on new operating system versions early to ...
Microsoft brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint together in new unified Office app
Microsoft Corp. today launched a new mobile version of its Office 365 productivity suite that brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint together in a unified interface with several handset-specific features. The unified Office app first made its debut at the company’s Ignite conference back in November. After spending the last three months in beta, it’s now ...
Google acquires mainframe application specialist Cornerstone
Google LLC today announced that it has acquired Cornerstone Technology B.V., a Netherlands-based provider of software and consulting services for modernizing mainframe applications. One of the company’s main focus areas is helping enterprises move mainframe applications to cloud platforms such as Google Cloud. Cornerstone has a software toolkit called G4 that can take a legacy ...