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Amperity gets $100M later-stage funding to grow its customer data management platform
Customer data management company Amperity Inc. has joined the unicorn startup club after raising $100 million in a late-stage funding round that takes its market value to more than $1 billion. HighSage Ventures led today’s Series D round, with participation from existing investors Tiger Global Management, Declaration Partners, Madrona Venture Group and MaderaTechnology Partners, bringing ...
Impact, which helps companies manage partnerships with influencers and affiliates, raises $150M
Global partnership management platform provider Impact Tech Inc. is looking to expand after raising $150 million in funding. Today’s private equity funding round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Providence Public, bringing Impact’s valuation to $1.5 billion. Impact says its Partnership Cloud platform is designed to help brands shift from traditional advertising methods to ...
Arctic Wolf raises $150M for its security operations platform that blends software with human experts
Security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. has raised an additional $150 million in a late-stage funding round that takes its value to $4.3 billion. Viking Global Investors and Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital, led today’s Series F round, together with participation from other existing investors. Arctic Wolf sells a cloud-native managed ...
Dialpad integrates Meetings with its main app for more consistent, unified communications
Business communications-as-a-service provider Dialpad Inc. has revamped its voice-over-internet-protocol-based UberConference videoconferencing product. The new Dialpad Meetings product announced today adds new features and is meant to serve as a unified communications platform for companies that helps to simplify business collaboration and eliminate the growing phenomenon of “app overload.” Dialpad Meetings is based on the same ...
PC market braces for a decline as pandemic-driven sales boost fizzles out
Demand for personal computers appears to be running out of steam, with analysts saying today they predict a steady decline in shipments for the rest of the year. The PC market got a huge kick from the COVID-19 pandemic. That led to millions of professionals and students upgrading their PCs over the last year in ...
Gmail adds full support for the Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard
Google LLC today announced a small but potentially important email security update. It’s adding full support for the emerging Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard in Gmail. BIMI, as it’s called, helps email recipients to know that the message they’re receiving is an authentic one. The BIMI specification works by allowing companies to display their ...
Nvidia reveals how its BlueField DPUs boost Palo Alto Networks’ virtual firewall performance
Nvidia Corp. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. detailed today how they created what they say is a massively accelerated virtual next-generation firewall that doesn’t impact network performance. Announced in May, Palo Alto’s VM-Series NGFW helps to accelerate packet filtering and forwarding by offloading traffic from server processors to dedicated Nvidia BlueField-2 data processing units. It further speeds ...
Aqua Security buys open-source ‘infrastructure as code’ scanning tool tfsec
Cloud-native security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. has spent some of the money it raised earlier this year to acquire an open-source scanning tool called tfsec. The company said that with today’s acquisition, it will immediately integrate tfsec and its “infrastructure as code” or IaC security scanning capability with its Aqua Trivy product. It will ...
Facebook teaches walking AI robots to adapt on the fly to terrain such as dirt, sand and even swamps
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with a more advanced method of teaching walking robots to adapt to different kinds of terrain on the fly. Using the method, robots can with relative ease make their way across sand, loose rocks, deep grass, muddy fields, slippery surfaces and anything else they encounter. The Rapid ...
Google calls states’ antitrust suit on app store commissions ‘meritless’
Updated: Google LLC has been slapped with yet another antitrust lawsuit — one that it promptly called “meritless.” This time the search giant faces a coalition of state attorneys general that argue the company is abusing its control of the Android app store to charge unfair commissions to developers. The lawsuit, filed today by 36 states ...