Recurve Analytics Inc., an open-source platform for virtual power plants, said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to accelerate the transition to clean energy by reducing stress on the grid during periods of high demand. The startup’s Series B round was funded by Calpine Energy Solutions, Quantum Innovation Fund, Toshiba Energy Systems & ...

Agricultural robotics startup Solinftec has today announced an expansion to its robotics lineup with the Solix Sprayer, a robot designed to detect and spray weeds. Designed in partnership with McKinney Corp. which is producing and manufacturing the robot, the Solix Sprayer is described as deploying new technology that helps producers reduce their chemical inputs and deliver a ...

Compensation management solutions provider beqom SA revealed today that it has acquired continuous performance management platform startup Our Tandem for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Our Tandem offers a performance management system designed to sit in the flow of work, integrating with core human resources systems, Microsoft Office and enterprise resource planning systems. The company’s ...

A new study from Georgia Institute of Technology researchers has found malicious plugins installed on some 25,000 WordPress websites. The researchers analyzed backups from over 400,000 web servers and found 47,337 malicious plugins across 24,931 unique WordPress sites using a web development tool named “YODA.” Every compromised website in their dataset had two or more ...

Hackers behind a phishing attack that compromised accounts on cloud communications provider Twilio Inc. used their access to intercept onetime passwords issued by Okta Inc. The hack on Twilio took place on Aug. 4 and involved the theft of employee credentials that in turn gave the hacker access to a limited number of customer accounts. To ...

The same hacking group that successfully breached Twilio Inc. and attempted to breach Cloudflare Inc. earlier this month is now believed to have breached more than 130 organizations in the same phishing campaign. As detailed today by researchers at Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd., the phishing campaign, codenamed “0ktapus” after its impersonation of identity and access management service ...

Shares in Affirm Holdings Inc. plunged in late trading after the payments company missed forecasts on quarterly earnings and offered a lower-than-expected outlook for the quarter ahead. For its fiscal fourth quarter that ended June 30, Affirm reported a net loss of 65 cents per share, surpassing last year’s loss of 48 cents per share. ...

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. reported an earnings beat and a slightly better-than-expected outlook for its fiscal second quarter as its revenue continues to grow. For the second quarter ended July 31, Sumo Logic reported a loss even before costs such as stock compensation of $12 million or 10 cents per share, compared with a ...

Shares in Marvell Technology Inc. dropped in late trading after the infrastructure semiconductor maker issued a lower-than-expected fiscal third-quarter outlook. For its second quarter ended July 30, Marvell reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $486 million, or 57 cents per share, up from $284 million or 34 cents per share in the same ...

Shares in Workday Inc. surged in late trading after the enterprise resource planning software giant delivered an earnings beat and revised its operating margin outlook amid strong growth. For its second quarter ended July 31, Workday reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of 83 cents per diluted share, down from $1.23 at ...