Shares in behavior tracking firm Amplitude Inc. plunged in after-hours trading today after the company delivered a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Amplitude reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of five cents per share, compared with a loss of two cents in the ...

Leadership Circle, a company that offers leadership development services for business leaders and teams, today today announced $20 million in funding from RF Investment Partners. A nearly 40-year-old company raising its first venture capital funding is rare and this is the case with Leadership Circle, which was founded in 1985. The funding will be used to further development of ...

The world faces what could turn out to be World War III, as Russian troops mass on the border with Ukraine and could invade the sovereign country this week — but Russia apparently is already marching on the internet. The best way to start an invasion is to cripple the internet and online functionality of ...

Microsoft Corp. today rolled out limited support for Android apps in the latest beta testing preview of Windows 11. Microsoft announced support for Android apps in Windows 11 in June, the same time it surprised just about everyone that there would be a new version of Windows. Although Microsoft has denied ever saying that Windows 10 ...

Bot detection and mitigation platform startup Netacea Ltd. today announced that it has received £9m ($12m) in new funding to expand its presence in the U.K. and the U.S. Investors in this Series A round included Mercia Asset Management and several individual investors. Founded in 2018, Netacea detects and mitigates against bot attacks that target mobile, website and ...

The San Francisco 49ers American football team has been struck by a ransomware attack, with financial data stolen. Credit for the attack has been taken by a ransomware gang going by the name of BlackByte. The gang first emerged in July and was the subject of a joint cybersecurity advisory by the U.S. Federal Bureau ...

Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi Lending LLC has agreed to pay $100 million in penalties and pursue registration of its crypto lending product as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The payment came about after the SEC charged BlockFi with failing to register the offers and sales of its retail crypto lending product. ...

Advertising for cryptocurrency services got a lot of attention during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but an ad for Coinbase Inc. managed to crash their website and raise security concerns. Companies advertising cryptocurrency-related services during the Super Bowl included FTX trading Ltd., EToro and Coinbase, with all three seeing surges in app popularity following their ads, according ...

In one of the more weird investments in recent times, Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, today announced that it’s investing $200 million into legacy media company Forbes Media LLC, the publisher of Forbes magazine. The $200 million strategic investment will go to both Forbes and Magnus Opus Acquisition Ltd., the special-purpose acquisition company Forbes ...

Typically a company will release a quarterly earnings report at the close or sometimes the beginning of the stock market trading day. But today, Affirm Holdings Inc. accidentally released its earnings in the middle of the day, and the result wasn’t good. Affirm was scheduled to release its earnings at 4 p.m. EST. However, the ...