Visual enterprise collaboration startup Mural today said it has raised $118 million in new funding to extend its operations globally, accelerate development and deepen its community engagement initiatives. The Series B round was led by Insight Partners and included Tiger Global, Slack Fund, World Innovation Lab, Gradient Ventures and number of individual investors. Jeff Lieberman, managing director ...

Ahead of its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, hybrid cloud data services company NetApp Inc. is laying off around 5% of its staff amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. While not officially announcing the layoffs, NetApp told The Register that it was “realigning resources and investments to best capture these opportunities and position the company for ...

Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has revealed the details of its forthcoming initial public offering: It will pursue a direct listing rather than a traditional IPO. Palantir first revealed its intent to go public in July, saying that it had confidentially filed its S-1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, but ...

Epic Games Ltd.’s lawsuit against Apple Inc. has delivered mixed results at its first hearing, as a judge issued a restraining order banning Apple from canceling Epic’s developer account but didn’t require Apple to restore Fortnite to its App Store. The games company filed a lawsuit against Apple Aug. 13 alleging that Apple’s App Store ...

Market intelligence startup Crunchbase Inc. today unveiled an integration with Salesforce Inc. that enables individuals and teams to discover and act on high-quality prospects quickly. The integration allows users of both Crunchbase’s free and Pro service to avoid spending time manually exporting prospects from Crunchbase into their customer relationship management applications. Crunchbase users will now be ...

Data relating to 8.3 million users of stock-image sites Freepik and Flaticon, both owned by Freepik Co. S.L., have been stolen through an SQL injection attack. The data stolen included the email addresses of users along with 3.77 million hashed passwords. Some 3.55 million of those passwords were encrypted with bcrypt, making them highly difficult ...

Chinese-owned social video app provider TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s ban of the service in the U.S. if it’s not sold off to a non-Chinese company. The lawsuit argues that the ban prevents the company from due process as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. TikTok further argues that the executive order signed by ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s acquisition spree continued today as the company announced plans to acquire Crypsis Group for $265 million on a day it delivered a strong quarterly earnings report. Founded in 2015, Crypsis Group offers a range of cybersecurity products focused on fighting cybercrime. Pitched as being built on a shared vision of a ...

The University of Utah has become the latest victim of a ransomware attack to pay those behind the attack to resolve the matter, a decision that security researchers claim only encourages future attacks. The university’s College of Social and Behavioral Science was targeted by an unnamed form of ransomware July 19 that is described as ...

Epic Games Ltd.’s lawsuit against Apple Inc. following the removal of Fortnite from the App Store has taken several new twists, the most notable among them that Microsoft Corp. filed a declaration of support. The drama started Aug. 13 with Fortnite being banned from both Apple’s App Store and Google Play after Epic Games added support ...