Cloud-based employee performance management company 15Five Inc. today announced it has acquired employee engagement software firm Emplify Inc. for $50 million. Founded in 2010, Emplify is designed to enable executives to ask for, analyze and act on employee feedback to transform data insights into human action. Emplify fuses survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement and transformation ...

Endpoint management startup Automox Inc. revealed today that it has raised $110 million in new funding to expand the enterprise featurese of its platform. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners and included funds managed by Blackstone, Koch Disruptive Technologies and TechOperators. Founded in 2015, Automox provides a cloud-native, cross-platform endpoint management platform designed to ...

Musical instrument marketplace Reverb.com LLC has suffered a data breach, with details of 5.6 million users exposed online. First discovered and detailed April 23 by security researcher Bob Diachenko, the data breach involved an exposed Elasticsearch server that was exposed to all and sundry without any protection. The database includes full name, email address, phone number, ...

Enterprise password manager Passwordstate from Australian company Click Studios (SA) Pty. Ltd. has been compromised, with customers warned to reset their passwords. The compromise involves a Passwordstate upgrade that went out to customers between April 20 and April 22. An unknown hacker is said to have compromised the in-place upgrade functionality for the software located ...

A security issue in Apple Inc.’s AirDrop feature can allow an attacker to steal personal information from an Apple user. Detailed April 21 by security researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, the security issue was first discovered two years ago but despite their contacting Apple in May 2019, the issue still exists. Using ...

The U.S. Department of Defense has given a Florida company control over about 175 million of its IP addresses as part of a security pilot program. The IP address range, registered as GRS-DoD, AS8003 became active Jan. 20 in the last minutes of the Trump administration, with several pundits suggesting that the timing may be ...

Real estate data management and analytics startup Cherre Inc. today said it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its platform offering, introduce and integrate additional partner data sets and applications, and launch its customer advisory board. The Series B round was led by Trustbridge Partners and included Glilot Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Navitas Capital, Carthona ...

Shares in Snap Inc. rose in after-hours trading after the social media company reported earnings and user growth that beat analysts’ expectations. For the quarter ended March 31, Snap reported revenue of $770 million, up 66% year-over-year. The company had an operating loss adjusted for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $1.7 million ...

Digital trust startup Sift revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to allow it to continue expanding its product portfolio. The round was led by Insight Partners and included Union Square Ventures and Stripes. The new funding was raised on a unicorn valuation described as more than $1 billion. Founded in 2011, Sift ...

Rapid7 Inc. announced today it has acquired Velocidex Enterprises Pty. Ltd., the company behind Velociraptor, an open-source technology and community platform focused on cybersecurity monitoring tools, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2018, Velociraptor provides next-generation endpoint monitoring, digital forensic investigations and cybersecurity incident response. Focused on providing the “last step” in the process of digital forensic ...