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Fortinet scoops up security orchestration startup CyberSponse
Less than two months after wrapping up its previous acquisition, Fortinet Inc. has announced a new one: The publicly traded cybersecurity company is buying CyberSponse Inc. in a deal disclosed today. Arlington, Virginia-based CyberSponse specializes in simplifying operations for organizations with a large number of breach prevention systems. The firm’s CyOPs platform can pull alerts ...
Waymo acquires AI-powered simulation startup Latent Logic
Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving subsidiary, has acquired a British startup called Latent Logic Ltd. that provides software for simulating drivers and pedestrians. The group announced the deal on Twitter today without sharing financial details. The Latent Logic team will continue to operate out of its current location in Oxford, which is set to become ...
Report: Francisco Partners, Elliott looking to take LogMeIn private for $4B+
LogMeIn Inc. could become the next publicly traded tech company to be taken private, according to information revealed in a Bloomberg report today. The usual “people familiar with the matter” told the outlet that private equity firm Francisco Partners Management has joined forces with hedge fund Elliott Management to bid for the company. LogMeIn, which ...
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A ‘new internet’: Cisco debuts unified Silicon ONE chip series for tomorrow’s networks
Cisco Systems Inc. wants to do for the network what Intel Corp. did for servers and personal computers. At a livestreamed event today in San Francisco, Cisco Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins (pictured) unveiled Silicon ONE, a chip architecture five years in the making that’s designed to provide a common foundation for tomorrow’s networks. Silicon ONE processors ...
Twitter plans to fund ‘Bluesky,’ an open, decentralized social network standard
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said today that the company will fund the development of an open-source and decentralized social network standard in an attempt to address the shortcomings of current platforms. Dorsey, in a series of tweets, detailed that the project will be run by a small independent team operating under the ...
Entering lidar market, Intel debuts industry’s smallest high-resolution camera
Intel Corp. is jumping into the lidar market. The chipmaker today took the covers off a new RealSense camera that it describes as the smallest and most power-efficient entry into the high-resolution lidar sensor category. The device, the RealSense LiDAR Camera L515, is a compact disk the size of a tennis ball (pictured) that comes ...
New ‘Plundervolt’ exploit affecting Intel chips uses electricity to steal data
A group of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a vulnerability in Intel Corp. central processing units that can potentially be exploited to steal sensitive data and compromise otherwise secure applications. The researchers, hailing from three European universities, named the bug Plundervolt, in a nod to the somewhat unusual attack method it facilitates. Plundervolt enables hackers to ...
Real-time database startup Imply bags $30M round led by Andreessen Horowitz
Database startup Imply Inc. has raised $30 million in what it describes as an “opportunistic” funding round to build on the eightfold revenue increase it logged over the past two years. The investment, announced today, was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital. Imply now claims a valuation of $350 million. Burlingame, ...
Apple accused of snooping on employees after suing former iPhone chip architect
Apple Inc. and a former top processor engineer who left the company to start a server chip startup are exchanging claims of illegal conduct in a court battle that came to light Monday evening. The startup in question, Nuvia Inc., exited stealth mode just last month with backing from prominent investors such as Mayfield. Co-founder and Chief Executive ...
Xerox pitches up to $1.5B revenue growth to HP investors as proxy fight heats up
Xerox Holdings Corp. wants to convince HP Inc.’s shareholders that its proposed $33.5 billion hostile takeover of the company is a good idea. Today, Norwalk, Connecticut-based Xerox released an investor presentation in which it makes the case for a deal to happen. The printer and copier maker said it’s willing to offer $17 per HP share along ...