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Foursquare raises $150M and buys key competitor to scale up analytics business
Much has changed at Foursquare Labs Inc. in the past few years. The company, which started out by providing a check-in app that allowed users to broadcast their trips, now sells location-based analytics and development tools to brands. Foursquare late Thursday revealed that it has raised a $150 million investment led by merchant bank The ...
Report: Amazon could acquire Sprint’s Boost Mobile to enter the wireless market
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly set its sights on the telecommunications sector. Two anonymous sources quoted by Reuters today said that the online retail giant is looking to acquire Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Corp. that provides prepaid wireless plans. Financial research firm Cowen Inc. estimates the unit has 7 million to 8 million subscribers. Sprint ...
Google moves to implement stronger privacy controls for Chrome and Drive
Google LLC is taking steps to regulate more closely how external services access user data in Chrome and Google Drive. Ben Smith, the company’s vice president of engineering, today detailed a set of new privacy policies that will roll out for the applications early next year. The most broad-reaching of the rules are set to focus ...
Sequoia leads $110M funding round for password security startup Dashlane
A month after raising $30 million in debt financing, password security specialist Dashlane Inc. today announced that it has picked up a $110 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The cash injection bumps the startup’s total raised to more than $210 million. Dashlane didn’t disclose its post-money valuation but did divulge that Sequoia was joined by ...
The security acquisitions continue: Insight Partners buys Recorded Future for $780M
Insight Partners does most of its investing through growth-stage funding rounds, but the venture capital giant occasionally makes bigger bets as well. The firm today announced that it has acquired threat intelligence startup Recorded Future Inc. for a hefty $780 million. The transaction is the third nine-figure acquisition that the cybersecurity industry has seen this week. ...
Salesforce joins the blockchain fray with low-code development toolkit
Salesforce.com Inc. today debuted a new development toolkit that will enable enterprises to build blockchain applications on its cloud platform. A blockchain is a type of database that can store records in a highly secure manner. All the users of a blockchain receive their own separate, encrypted copies of the information in the system, which makes ...
Logz.io raises $52M in funding for its infrastructure monitoring platform
A year and a half after last raising capital, infrastructure monitoring startup Logz.io Inc. today announced that it has closed another $52 million funding round led by General Catalyst. Boston-based General Catalyst’s previous bets include high-profile tech unicorns such as Airbnb Inc. The venture capital firm was joined by a half-dozen other investors in Logz.io’s latest round, ...
Amazon doubles down on voice with Echo Show 5, new Alexa privacy controls
Amazon.com Inc. today augmented its Echo family of voice-activated devices with a new smart display and a set of privacy features that will become available across the entire product lineup. The smart display, the Echo Show 5 (pictured), is essentially a miniature version of the Echo Spot. It features a smaller 5.5-inch screen and a ...
Intuit acquires analytics startup Origami Logic to enhance its data infrastructure
Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it’s buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup. The deal marks the veteran company’s first acquisition under Chief Executive Sasan Goodarzi, who took the helm in January. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Seven-year-old Origami Logic offers a cloud service that helps companies ...
Intel’s 10-nanometer laptop CPUs bring more speed, vastly improved graphics
Two days after debuting its 10-nanometer Ice Lake chip architecture, Intel Corp. this morning introduced the first central processing units based on the design. The new 10th Gen Intel Core processors, which represent only the first of several batches of 10-nanometer CPUs, are aimed at the laptop market. They’re organized into three groups that each falls under ...