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In data-focused deal, Relx Group agrees to buy ThreatMetrix for $817M
Relx Group plc, a British analytics provider with annual revenues of about $10 billion, today announced plans to acquire California-based ThreatMetrix Inc. for £580 million ($817 million). The deal is the company’s biggest in a decade. The size of the transaction reflects the importance of the assets that Relx stands to absorb. ThreatMetrix sells fraud detection ...
Report: Apple to launch at least 3 new Mac models with coprocessors for better security
A Bloomberg report published today claims that Apple Inc. will soon launch at least three new Mac personal computers with custom coprocessors designed to provide better security for users. The anonymous sources who spoke with the publication didn’t go into detail, but it’s a safe bet that the silicon belongs to the iPhone maker’s T chip lineup. Introduced in ...
Google has quietly begun testing a new hyperlocal news platform called Bulletin
Google LLC’s latest social media experiment is a hyperlocal news service dubbed Bulletin that could pit the search giant against Facebook Inc., as well as many other smaller players. Word of the platform hit this morning after Slate picked up a YouTube video from a Nashville-based blogger who was invited to a private product launch. ...
Mirantis co-founder Adrian Ionel returns as CEO to lead new multicloud strategy
Mirantis Inc. today announced that co-founder Adrian Ionel, who served as its chief executive officer until 2015, has returned to the helm to lead a new strategy that will focus on emerging growth opportunities in the cloud market. The Sunnyvale, California-based company frose to prominence as a provider of professional services and automation technology for ...
Apple is reportedly overhauling iBooks in a bid to go after Amazon
Apple Inc. Wednesday released a beta version of iOS 11.3 to developers with a rebranded version of the iBooks reading app named “Books,” but the simple name masks bigger things to come. According to a new Bloomberg report, sources familiar with the matter said the iPhone maker is quietly working on a major upgrade of the app, ...
New Thales report shows 46 percent of US enterprises were hacked in 2017
The rate at which companies fall victim to data breaches is growing at an alarming pace, according to a new report published today. The study, from Thales SA, is based on the results of an industry survey that the French defense and cybersecurity giant commissioned from 451 Research LLC. The analysis firm interviewed more than ...
SoftBank leads $865M round into Katerra, a startup that manufactures buildings
Katerra Inc., a startup trying single-handedly to “redefine” the $12 trillion construction industry, has found a new deep-pocketed backer to finance its ambitious plan. The three-year-old company today announced the completion of a massive $865 million investment led by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund. The Japanese carrier raised $93 billion last year to back startups building “foundational ...
Cisco to acquire hyperconverged infrastructure startup Skyport Systems
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced plans to acquire Skyport Systems Inc., a five-year-old hyperconverged infrastructure provider backed by $67 million in funding. Investors in the startup include big names such as Intel Capital, Alphabet Inc.’s GV and Index Ventures. Cisco itself also backed Skyport through a $30 million round completed in 2016. What has enabled the provider to ...
Sequoia and DFJ bet $66M on Front’s collaborative inbox
Front App Inc. wants to retool the traditional email inbox for the era of team chat applications and cross-platform customer interactions, and today it said it has raised $66 million to expand its efforts. Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from DFJ Capital. The San Francisco-based startup will use the financing to step up customer ...
Cloud application management startup Zylo nets $9.3M from Bessemer, Salesforce and Slack
Zylo Inc. says the average company using its platform has more than 400 software-as-a-service subscriptions. Managing so many products without creating any unnecessary costs is a difficult proposition, which is the reason investors are betting $9.3 million on the startup. Announced today, the round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from the investment ...