ServiceNow Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire configuration data management startup Sweagle NV for an undisclosed price. Founded in Belgium in 2017 with offices in Brussels, Paris, London and New York City, Sweagle offers configuration data management on a software-as-a-service basis. The company’s platform allows users to manage their configuration data — settings, ...

Apple Inc. kicks off its first online-only Worldwide Developers Conference at 10 a.m. PDT Monday with announcements expected across a wide range of Apple products including hardware and software. The shift to being online-only comes amid the COVID-19 pandemic with many companies switching to presenting online this year, sometimes with mixed results. Here’s what to expect ...

Backup solutions and cloud data management firm Veeam Software Corp. today announced a number of new products designed to deliver cost savings to enterprise users. Launched today during VeeamON 2020, this year exclusively online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced Veeam Availability Orchestrator version three and a new disaster recovery pack. It’s all ...

Facebook Inc. has acquired Mapillary AB, a Swedish startup that takes street-level imagery for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2013, Mapillary pitches itself as a sort of Google Maps competitor in that it offers street-level imagery such as Google Maps does but with a twist in that its imagery comes from “any camera, anywhere.” The ...

Blockchain developer Telos today announced the launch of the Telos EVM, the first deployment of an Ethereum Virtual Machine on the EOS.IO blockchain. The service is designed to deliver smart contracts on a platform that is said to be more than 700 times faster than Ethereum itself with no network fees or gas. Telos’ network currently ...

The infamous “Vault 7” theft of secret hacking tools and documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2016 resulted from lax cybersecurity practices at the agency, according to an inquiry in 2017 that has only now been partially published. Information and tools stolen in the hack were published through 2017 by Wikileaks and included ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today revealed that it managed to mitigate a 2.3 terabytes-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack in February, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in the AWS Shield Threat Landscape Report- Q1 2020, the attack lasted three days, with those behind it unsuccessful in knocking Amazon cloud services offline. The attack was a so-called ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is moving into software, signing its first deal to provide its booking technology to a Californian public transport provider. Under the deal, signed today with Marin County on a software-as-a-service basis, the county north of San Francisco will use Uber’s technology for its Marin Connect service. The service, set to launch in ...

Artificial intelligence financial technology startup Pagaya Technologies Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $102 million in new funding partly to move into new asset classes. The Series D round was led by GIC and included Aflac Global Ventures, Poalim Capital Markets, Viola, Oak HC/FT, Clal Insurance, GF Investments and Siam Commercial Bank. Founded in 2016, Pagaya ...

A series of newly discovered vulnerabilities in “internet of things” devices opens the door to hackers to gain access to both consumer and enterprise devices. That’s according to a new report by security researchers at JSOF. The vulnerabilities, dubbed Ripple20, total 19 and relate to the Treck TCP/IP stack, a TCP/IP protocol suite designed for embedded systems. The ...