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Hot on the heels of a $37.5 million funding round led by Morgan Stanley, AIOps startup OpsRamp Inc. today debuted a new version of its platform that adds new features for monitoring information technology infrastructure and analyzing issues. AIOps is the umbrella …
Updated: Fears of coronavirus impacts hammer the stock market again
Updated: Investor fears about the coronavirus outbreak have sent markets tumbling today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and key tech stocks all taking a hit. The Dow plunged more than 1,000 points in early morning trading and closed down 3.6%, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …