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Developer cloud provider DigitalOcean to acquire Cloudways for $350M
DigitalOcean Holdings Inc., the provider of cloud infrastructure for developers, today announced it agreed to acquire the cloud-based website hosting service CloudWays Ltd. for $350 million. The company operates a platform designed to simplify cloud computing so that developers can spend more time creating software instead of worrying about infrastructure. It’s aimed at startups and ...
Crypto lender Hodlnaut seeks court protection after $200M shortfall
Cryptocurrency lending firm Hodlnaut is the latest victim of “crypto winter” after it revealed that it’s seeking judicial management in order to rehabilitate the startup after it withheld withdrawals earlier this month. The company confirmed that it has been put in a bad position in an update posted on Friday. According to Hodlnaut, its current ...
Massdriver’s platform helps developers diagram the cloud and get on with coding
Software development company Massdriver Inc. is developing a platform that helps DevOps teams abstract away infrastructure so that it can be deployed without cloud expertise, thus allowing developers to get back to coding. Cory O’Daniel, chief executive of Massdriver, co-founded the company in 2021 alongside Chris Hill and Dave Williams in 2021. Their goal is ...
Collective NFT ownership protocol Fractional raises $20M and rebrands as Tessera
Fractional, a protocol that allows the collective ownership of nonfungible tokens, announced Wednesday that it’s rebranding as Tessera, and also revealed that it raised $20 million in early-stage funding led by Paradigm. The Series A funding was raised earlier this summer and included investments from Focus Labs, Uniswap Labs Ventures, eGirl Capital, Yunt Capital and over 50 ...
CircleCI launches drag-and-drop configuration editor for DevOps workflows
DevOps platform provider Circle Internet Services Inc. today introduced a new drag-and-drop configuration tool called the Visual Configuration Editor for developers aimed at making it much easier for software engineering teams to orchestrate their workflows visually. The Visual Configuration Editor is an open-source drag-and-drop node-based graphical editor. It’s designed to allow software engineers to lay ...
CoinFund invests in Web3 with $300M early-stage venture fund
Blockchain and crypto-focused investment firm CoinFund today announced its new $300 million early-stage Web3 venture fund, CoinFund Ventures I. The new fund was backed by a combination of institutional investors, family offices and crypto company founders, the company said. It would be aimed at complementing the firm’s well-established seed-stage investment program by providing early-stage funds ...
Google researchers demo robots that can understand what people want
Researchers at Google LLC have devised a new way for robots to understand what people want by teaching them how language fits with the real world. People already interact daily speaking naturally with chatbots on their phones to do internet searches, set alarms and even order pizzas. But what if you could call to your Roomba and ...
Twilio hackers exposed 1,900 Signal users in phishing attack
The hackers that breached the cloud communications company Twilio Inc. earlier this month may have exposed the phone numbers of 1,900 users of the encrypted messaging app Signal, the company said today – but that’s about all that the hackers had access to. Signal assured users that hackers had no access to users’ message history, contact ...
Google officially releases Android 13 to Pixel devices
Google LLC is officially rolling out Android 13 today and pushed the source code into the Android Open Source Project for developers. The new mobile operating system release is replete with new features and apps that Google’s Android team has been developing for the past months. They’re aimed at user privacy and security, superior developer ...
Galaxy Digital backs out of $1.2B acquisition deal for crypto wallet provider BitGo
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. today announced that it’s terminating a $1.2 billion deal to acquire enterprise cryptocurrency wallet startup BitGo Inc. The digital asset merchant bank said it ended the deal after BitGo failed to “deliver audited financial statements for 2021” in compliance with the requirements of the acquisition agreement that had been inked in ...