Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet are no longer. Google LLC has rebranded the enterprise chat and meeting services in G Suite as Google Chat and Google Meet, amid surging use of them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strangely, Google did not actually announce the name change, instead publishing a blog post that explained Meet’s security and ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Teams has broken a new record during the coronavirus pandemic with 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day. The figure is said to be an increase of 200% from 900 million meeting minutes on March 16 and is in part credited to a surge of 183,000 “tenants” in 175 countries using Teams for ...

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex is reported to have paid $2.3 million in bitcoin to restore its network after hackers launched a ransomware attack against the company Dec. 31. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Travelex decided to pay the 285 bitcoin ransom to the REvil ransomware gang on the advice of experts. REvil had threatened ...

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd Inc. today announced it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate the expansion of its platform. The Series D round was led by Rally Ventures and included unnamed new and existing investors. Founded in 2012, BugCrowd connects companies and their applications to security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. At ...

A database belonging to marketing automation platform provider Maropost Inc. has been found exposed online, complete with 95 million individual customer email records and email logs. Discovered by researchers at Cybernews, the database included more than 19 million unique email records belonging to about 10,000 clients. Those clients include the New York Post, Shopify Inc., ...

Accenture plc today said it has acquired the privately held cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed price. The company had raised a single round of $2.5 million prior to acquisition. Founded in 2016, Revolutionary Security offers a range of cybersecurity products including risk assessment, breach and attack simulation testing, insider threat assessments and framework bases assessment. The ...

Blockchain banking and payments startup Sila Inc. today announced that it has raised $7.7 million in new funding that will be used to introduce new product features that provide software developers with easier access to the global financial system. The seed round was lead by Madrona Venture Group and the Oregon Venture Fund and included Mucker ...

No-code automation platform provider Tonkean Inc. said today it has raised $24 million in new funding to allow it to scale up its “adaptive business operations” technology. Founded in 2015, Tonkean offers a “human in the loop” robotic automation platform that is said to bridge the “last mile” gap between people, technology and processes. Pitched as ...

A Special Committee of We Co., the parent company of troubled workplace provider WeWork, today filed a lawsuit against SoftBank Group Corp. after SoftBank terminated its offer to buy $3 billion in WeWork shares April 2. The lawsuit alleges that SoftBank breached its obligations under the agreement to acquire WeWork shares in October. WeWork specifically claims that ...

Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has donated $1 billion in equity from his Square shares to fund COVID-19 relief around the world. Dorsey (pictured) said on Twitter today that the donation will fund coronavirus relief and that when the pandemic is over, remaining funds would be allocated to girls’ health education and universal ...