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Enterprise API security startup Noname Security raises $60M
Enterprise application programming security startup Noname Security today announced it has raised $60 million in new funding amid fast growth. Insight Partners led the Series B round. Other investors included Next47, Forgepoint, The Syndicate Group, Cyberstarts and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Including the new funding, Noname Security has raised $85 million in venture capital funding to date. Founded in 2020, ...
SentinelOne soars, Didi doesn’t on big day for initial public offerings
Updated: On a big day for initial public offerings, cybersecurity provider SentinelOne Inc. today saw its share price soar in its first trading as a public company, but Chinese ride-hailing Didi Global Inc. rose only slightly in its debut. SentinelOne’s shares jumped 21% by the close of trading today. The company, which filed for an ...
Machine learning startup DataRobot reportedly raises $250M on $6B valuation
Machine learning automation startup DataRobot Inc. has raised $250 million in new funding on a valuation of about $6 billion, according to a report today by Axios. Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global are said to have led the Series G round. Other investors include T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Silver Lake and New Enterprise Associates, according to the Axios report. ...
Database of 700M LinkedIn users found for sale on a hacking forum
A database with details of 700 million LinkedIn users has been found for sale on a hacking forum. The database has been offered for sale since June 22 by a user called TomLiner on Raid Forums, including a sample of 1 million records provided to prove the claim. However, no price was listed to purchase ...
Cloud tax practice management startup Canopy raises $11M
Cloud tax practice management platform startup Canopy Tax Inc. today announced it has raised $11 million in new funding to keep building out its accounting industry modern practice suite. Ankona Capital led the Series C round. Other investors included NewView Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital. Founded in 2014, Canopy offers cloud-based tax workflow management software ...
Microsoft warns SolarWinds hacking group Nobelium is targeting its customers
Microsoft Corp. has warned that Nobelium, the Russian-linked hacking group behind the attack on SolarWinds Worldwide LLC, is active again and targeting Microsoft customers. The Nobelium hacking group was last in the headlines in May. Microsoft warned at the time that the gang had targeted more than 150 organizations in a phishing campaign, with malicious emails disguised ...
Microsoft releases first preview edition of Windows 11, full launch may be October
A little under a week after making it official, Microsoft Corp. has released the first insider preview edition of Windows 11 and has teased that the full release may be coming in October. News that Microsoft was working on a new version of Windows came unexpectedly earlier this month when screenshots leaked showing that Microsoft ...
Shares in financial services company Payoneer drop on SPAC debut
Shares in online financial services company Payoneer Global Inc., a company often compared to PayPal Holdings Inc., dropped on their Nasdaq debut today after it completed a special-purchase acquisition company merger with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp. The $3.3 billion deal, announced in February, included Payoneer receiving $300 million from Wellington Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Fidelity Management & ...
Facebook hits $1T market cap as FTC antitrust lawsuit is dismissed
Shares in Facebook Inc. surged today following a court ruling dismissing an antitrust complaint brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The 4% rise in Facebook’s share price catapulted the company’s market cap to $1 trillion for the first time. In passing $1 trillion, Facebook has become the fifth listed company in history to reach ...
World’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been banned in the UK
Binance Markets Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has been banned in the United Kingdom. The decree came from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. The authority said in a statement Saturday that Binance is “not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the U.K.” without “prior written consent of the FCA.” The authority ...









