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Bitcoin blockchain payment services startup Veem Inc. has raised $24 million in a Series B round for its effort to provide an alternative to expensive wire transfers. Founded in 2014 and previously known as Align Commerce, Veem offers a financial payments platform …
Google Cloud launches new ‘role-based’ engineering support
Google Inc. has unveiled a new commercial support product for companies using its cloud services. Called simply “Engineering Support,” the new product, as the name quite clearly suggests, provides Google engineer support to Google Cloud Platform clients on a role-based subscription model. Google …
More than 1 million decrypted Gmail and Yahoo accounts are for sale on the dark web
More than 1 million usernames, emails and decrypted passwords of Gmail and Yahoo accounts have been found on sale in a dark web marketplace. According to reports, a dark web seller who goes by the name of SunTzu583 is offering to sell 100,000 …
Google enhances cloud partner program to take on AWS and Azure
Google Inc. has announced that it is enhancing its cloud partner program to make it easier for partners to build products seamlessly across its range of offerings. At the top of the list is the introduction of Google Cloud Partner Specializations, a new program that …
Avaya agrees to sell its networking business to Extreme Networks for $100M
Troubled business communications company Avaya Inc. has agreed to sell its networking business to Extreme Networks Inc. for $100 million as part of its efforts to battle its way out of bankruptcy. Avaya, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in an effort to …
Be very afraid: Wikileaks reveals CIA is hacking Android, iOS and even smart TVs
A new release by Wikileaks of thousands of top-secret documents from the Central Intelligence Agency has revealed for the first time that the agency is actively hacking a wide variety of smart devices, even smart televisions. The “Year Zero” release, the first …
Check Point adds Google Cloud support to vSec security platform
Israeli security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has extended support in its vSEC security platform to provide coverage for Google Cloud for the first time. VSEC for Google Cloud Platform delivers advanced security built for agile and scalable cloud environments that …
Qapital raises $12M in bid to reinvent financial services for millennials
Finance application startup Qapital Inc. has raised $12 million in a new early-stage round of funding for its goal of reinventing financial services. Founded in 2012, Qapital offers a money management application that allows users to organize their finances in a single place …
CA Technologies snaps up application security firm Veracode for $614M
CA Technologies Inc. has acquired application security firm Veracode Inc. for $614 million in cash. Founded in 2006, Veracode offers cloud-based application intelligence and security verification services that it claims improve the security of internally developed, purchased or outsourced software applications and third-party …
In a test for enterprise software IPOs, MuleSoft set to go public next week
Application network platform provider MuleSoft Inc. is set to go public soon at a nearly $2 billion valuation in the latest test of investors’ appetite for big tech company initial public offerings. Founded in 2006, MuleSoft offers a software-as-a-service platform that provides a way …