Global payments company Network Merchants Inc. today revealed that it has acquired the payments solution arm of underwriting and onboarding software solutions provider Agreement Express Inc. to expand its commerce offering. Founded in 2001, Agreement Express offers a software-as-a-service platform that automates client onboarding processes for financial services firms. The company’s product is said to reduce ...

Cloud identity and access startup Rezonate Inc. today launched out of stealth mode with $8.7 million in funding to accelerate go-to-market efforts. State of Mind Ventures and Flybridge led the round, with toDay Ventures, Merlin Ventures and several individual investors also participating. The company was founded in January this year by Chief Executive Officer Roy Akerman, ...

Artificial-intelligence-based operational management platform startup Operative Intelligence Pty. Ltd. disclosed today that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding to scale up its customer intelligence product capabilities. The seed round was led by Bonfire Ventures, with Wonder Ventures also participating. Founded in 2019, Operative Intelligence describes itself as offering the first purpose-built Demand-Insights-as-a-Service platform. The company ...

A hacking group linked to the Chinese government is alleged to have stolen more than $20 million in COVID relief benefits, including U.S. Small Business Administration loans and unemployment funds in more than a dozen states. NBC reported today that the allegation comes from the Secret Service, although the agency has not released a report on ...

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today released a joint research study that used federated learning, a distributed machine learning and artificial intelligence approach, to help healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors. The study is said to be the largest medical federated learning study ever undertaken, with ...

A new report from Reversing Labs Inc. has found that nearly two years after the SolarWinds Worldwide LLC hack, software supply chain attacks have shown no sign of slowing down or abating. The report found that attacks that leverage malicious open-source modules have continued to multiply in the commercial sector. Enterprise has seen an exponential increase ...

No-code automation platform startup Torq Ltd. today announced the launch of Torq Insights, a new overlay for managing security stacks. The company also announced that it has hit a new milestone of having executed more than 1 million daily security automations. Torq Insights is a comprehensive reporting and analytics overlay that provides the operational data needed to consistently ...

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed reality headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 because of software issues, according to well-respected Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo. Kuo explained in a thread on Twitter today that his latest survey indicates the mass-shipment schedule of Apple’s MR headset may be delayed until the second half on account of ...

Password manager LastPass US LP has suffered another data breach, as a hacker gained access to a third-party cloud storage service used by the company and its affiliate GoTo Technologies USA Inc. The data breach was a direct result of a previous breach reported by LastPass in August. Those behind the first hack used data obtained ...

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed reality headset is moving closer to fruition, with a report today reporting that its operating system has been given a new name ahead of an expected debut next year. Apple guru Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that the name of the OS that will ...