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Cloud security firm Zscaler tops fourth-quarter expectations
As cloud-based information security company Zscaler Inc. wrapped up its fiscal year today, it topped expectations on earnings and revenue with its fourth-quarter results. The company reported a profit before certain costs of 5 cents per share on revenue of $125.9 million, up 46% from a year ago. Wall Street had expected earnings of 3 cents ...
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander joins Amazon’s board
Amazon.com Inc. said today in a filing that a former National Security Agency director, General Keith Alexander, has been named to its board of directors. Alexander (pictured) is a four-star Army general who brings considerable cybersecurity and national security expertise to Amazon, having also served as commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, which defends the country ...
Cynet adds Incident Engine and human help to its autonomous endpoint protection platform
Cybersecurity startup Cynet Security Ltd. said today it’s adding some new capabilities to its autonomous endpoint protection platform that it says will not only improve threat detection accuracy but also help users to mitigate such threats more easily. Cynet sells an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous endpoint protection platform that’s meant to help bring breach protection within ...
Quantum Machines taps Q-CTRL to enhance and scale up its quantum computing hardware
Quantum Machines Ltd. said today it’s trying to enhance its quantum computing hardware platform by integrating it with Q-CTRL Pty. Ltd.’s specialized quantum firmware. Quantum computers can process information far faster than classic computers can do, and hold tremendous potential in areas such as drug discovery, artificial intelligence and industrial chemistry, to name just a few. But ...
JourneyApps deploys its low-code development platform OXIDE
Application development company Journey Mobile Inc., better known as JourneyApps, said today it’s getting into the low-code software game with the launch of its new OXIDE Integrated Development Environment. The company said it’s trying to strike a better balance between the speed and efficiency of low-code software creation with the flexibility and power of traditional code-based development. ...
Coupa Software tops earnings forecast but its stock falls on light guidance
Payments software company Coupa Software Inc. topped Wall Street’s expectations in its fiscal second-quarter results today, but its stock fell after it posted disappointing guidance for the next quarter. Coupa sells payment management software covers procurement, invoicing, sourcing and business expenses. Its software sits alongside enterprise resource planning software in the larger financial information technology ...
Slack’s stock plunges as it struggles to boost revenue growth
Slack Technologies Inc. beat expectations today with its fiscal second-quarter results, but its stock lost almost 20% of its value in after-hours trading as revenue growth failed to impress Wall Street. The company reported breakeven earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation on revenue of $215.9 million, up 49% from a year ago. That ...
Snowflake sets IPO price range, gets backing from Berkshire Hathaway and Salesforce
Cloud data warehouse company Snowflake Computing Inc.’s plans to list on the public stock market at a valuation of as much as $24 billion just got a big vote of confidence: Both Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to purchase $250 million of the company’s stock at its IPO price in a concurrent private ...
Segment debuts its cloud data lake for customer data
Customer data management platform provider Segment Inc. today announced it’s launching a new data lake product that it says will enable businesses to do more with their customer data. Segment sells a namesake customer data platform that companies can use to collect all the data about their own customer interactions and from there send that ...
Google expands Confidential Computing to Kubernetes workloads
Google LLC said today during its Cloud Next OnAir event wrapping up this week that it’s expanding its new Confidential Computing portfolio with the launch of a new service. Confidential GKE Nodes adds more privacy to workloads running on Kubernetes. Google launched the first product in its Confidential Computing portfolio, called Confidential VMs, in July, and said ...