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EU’s controversial copyright directive clears final vote toward becoming law
The European Union’s controversial copyright reform today cleared a final vote before member states and is now on track to become law. The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, as the bill is officially known, passed with 19 countries in favor and six against. Estonia, Belgium and Slovenia abstained. The approval concludes a ...
Apple reportedly readying dark mode, multitasking features for iOS 13
The next version of iOS will be a major boon for power users, if a new leak is to be believed. A report published today in 9To5Mac cites “people familiar with the development of the operating system” as saying that Apple Inc. is planning to deliver a new set of productivity and multitasking features with ...
Lyft recalls thousands of electric bikes after braking problems cause injuries
Lyft Inc.’s budding micro-mobility business has hit a bump in the road. The company said today that it has taken its electric bikes off the streets in New York City, San Francisco and Washington D.C. after a “small number of users” experienced issues with the brakes. The recall affected about 1,000 vehicles in the Big ...
With 10M+ users, password management startup Dashlane raises $30M round
Dashlane Inc., the maker of the hugely popular password manager of the same name, has secured $30 million in fresh capital. The round was led by publicly traded investment firm Hercules Capital Inc., TechCrunch reported today. The financing takes Dashlane’s total capital raised over the $100 million mark. Its other backers include big names such as Bessemer Venture Partners, ...
Homeland Security issues vulnerability warning for leading enterprise VPNs
Companies use virtual private networks to provide secure connections for employees who need to access work applications from outside the office, but a newly discovered vulnerability may allow hackers to turn those secure connections into a channel for launching cyberattacks. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a warning about the flaw, which is ...
PagerDuty sees shares surge 60% after $218M million IPO
Shares of PagerDuty Inc. are up 60% after floating on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, giving the incident response provider a solid start in its first day as a publicly traded company. The strong debut follows a Wednesday initial public offering that saw PagerDuty reel in $218 million from investors. It sold 9.07 ...
Dutch antitrust watchdog launches probe into Apple’s App Store practices
Dutch regulators today launched an antitrust investigation to determine if Apple Inc. has been giving its apps preferential treatment in the App Store at the expense of rival services. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets, or ACM, decided to look into the matter after receiving complaints from iOS app makers. The watchdog didn’t name ...
Connected-device security startup Armis bags $65M round led by Sequoia
Armis Inc., a fast-growing player in the “internet of things” security market, today announced that it has landed a $65 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Sequoia had backed a $30 million investment into the startup last year. The venture capital firm was joined by several of the other returning investors that participated in that round, ...
Report: Apple will break up iTunes into multiple apps in next macOS release
A little over 18 years after its initial release, iTunes is now reportedly nearing the end of its run. According to anonymous sources cited by 9To5Mac today, Apple Inc. is preparing to split up the Mac version of the iconic media store into multiple standalone applications. The update is expected to arrive with the next major ...
Google debuts new cloud networking tools to court enterprises
Google LLC today introduced two new networking tools for its cloud platform that aim to simplify the management of infrastructure-as-a-service environments, as well as make it easier to link them with a company’s on-premises data centers. The first addition announced at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco is a product called Traffic Director. It provides ...