Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to deliver on its vision, hire more people and speed up its product roadmap. The Series A round in the company, formally called Paanini Inc., was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Rebright Partners, W250 Venture Fund and a number ...

Big-data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to multiple reports published today. Bloomberg reported that the company, founded by Peter Thiel, is preparing to register a confidential S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The report said Palantir is working with bankers ...

Blockchain startup Unstoppable Domains Inc. today launched a decentralized blog or dBlog service that’s hosted on the InterPlanetary File System and attached to the company’s .crypto domains. Designed to allow .crypto domain holders to build their own blog quickly, the dBlogs do not sit on a single server but are instead decentralized on the IPFS network. ...

Cybersecurity risk management startup Axio Global Inc. announced today it has raised new funding to accelerate platform innovation and expansion into new industries including the financial sector. The amount of the Series A1 round was not disclosed. It was led by Fin Venture Capital and IA Capital Group and included previous investor NFP Ventures. Founded in 2013, Axio ...

A group of three U.S. senators and 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to Juniper Networks Inc. seeking to discover the outcome of an investigation by the company into encryption backdoors found in its ScreenOS operating system for firewalls in 2015. Led by Democrat Ron Wyden, who sits on the ...

U.K. telehealth company Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd. has suffered a data breach, allowing users to view video consultations of others. The data breach was first discovered by a user who said on Twitter Tuesday that he had access to more than 50 video recordings belonging to other patients via the Babylon Health app. The company has ...

Emergency response technology startup RapidSOS Inc. revealed today that it has raised $21 million in new funding to expand globally. The Series C round was led by Transformation Capital and included C5 Capital, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and a number of existing investors. Founded in 2012, RapidSOS connects data from millions of connected devices directly to 911 and ...

Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an Indian domain registrar for fraud relating to 12 domain names registered with the company. The lawsuit targets Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd., a private company in Mumbai that offers domain name and proxy services. The domain names in the lawsuit include facebook-verify-inc.com, instagramhjack.com and videocall-whatsapp.com, which Facebook alleges are designed to deceived people ...

Carmaker Honda Motor Co. has been forced to halt production in some global factories following a successful cyberattack. The form of the attack, not detailed by Honda and described today only as a virus, involved Snake ransomware, according to cybersecurity researchers. Because of the attack, production in Japan, the U.S., Turkey, India and Brazil ceased on ...

A group based in India has been exposed as being behind the hacking of thousands across the globe for at least seven years as part of a hack-for-hire scheme. Dubbed Dark Basin in a report into the group released today by The Citizen Lab, the group is tied to Indian company BellTrox InfoTech Services Pvt ...