Israeli software-as-a-service customer collaboration startup Lightico Ltd. has raised $14.5 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its global presence. The funding round was led by Mangrove Capital Partners and included previous investors lool ventures and Crescendo. Founded in 2014, Lightico provides customer experience software online focused on accelerating sales and service requests in call centers. The company’s ...

A GitHub account belonging to Canonical Ltd., the maker of Ubuntu Linux, was hacked over the weekend as a hacker created new repositories in the process. The hack took place on Saturday via compromised credentials. The hacker created 11 new repositories with names such as “CAN_GOT_HAXXD_2” and “CAN_GOT_HAXXD_4.” The Ubuntu Security team confirmed the attack, saying on Twitter that ...

A dispute that prompted the Japanese government to impose export restrictions on high-tech materials to South Korea may affect U.S. tech firms thanks to the key role Korean companies have in the global supply chain. The spat came about after South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that Japan’s Nippon Steel must compensate South Koreans for forced labor ...

Investors will soon get two more chances to weigh in on enterprise software stock offerings. Two software companies, Medallia Inc. and Phressia Inc., today announced terms for their initial public offerings on the New York Stock Exchange. Medallia, a San Francisco-based customer experience software provider, said it’s planning to raise $247 million through an offering of ...

Cloud-based employee performance management software startup 15Five Inc. said today it has raised $30.7 million in new funding to accelerate growth, scale sales and marketing, and to invest further in product development. The Series B round was led by Next47 and included Matrix Partners, PointNine Capital, LAUNCH Fund, Newground Ventures, Bling Capital, Chaifetz Group and Origin Ventures. Founded in ...

U.S. federal law enforcement agencies are using photos from state Department of Motor Vehicle registries to train facial recognition software according to a new report. The Washington Post, referring to data obtained by Georgetown Law researchers, said in a story today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been scanning hundreds ...

GM Cruise LLC, the self-driving car division of General Motors Co., is set to receive $2.25 billion in funding from Japanese telco giant SoftBank Group Corp. after the investment received approval from a government committee. The deal was announced in May 2018 but came at a time of increased scrutiny of foreign investment into U.S.-owned companies, requiring ...

U.S. government officials filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. over a ban against its equipment being used by government agencies. The ban in question, not to be confused with a later, since partially rescinded ban on the export of U.S. technology to Huawei, banned the use of Huawei and ZTE Corp. equipment by U.S. government ...

An official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned a meeting of top state election officials to be cautious of hacking attempts targeting local and state election workers in the lead up to the 2020 elections. Geoff Hale (pictured), director of the DHS Election Security Initiative, told a meeting of secretaries of state on ...

Robotic lawyer startup DoNotPay Ltd. today said it has raised $4.6 million in new funding to expand its service into new markets. The seed funding round was back by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z, Greylock Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Tuesday Capital and a range of individual investors. Founded in 2016, DoNotPay offers an automated lawyer chatbot ...