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NSO Group software found targeting journalists and activists

By Duncan Riley Jul 18, 2021

Software from Israeli spyware company NSO Group Technologies Ltd. has been found being used to target journalists and activists in the latest controversy involving the company. According to an investigation published today, led by…

Cloud

Zoom to acquire cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7B

By Duncan Riley Jul 18, 2021

Zoom Video Communications Inc. late today announced that it has entered a deal to acquire cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $14.7 billion. Founded in 2001, Five9 offers…

Cloud

Even as COVID eases, cloud computing and AWS keep flying high

By Dave Vellante Jul 17, 2021

Despite all the chatter about cloud repatriation and the exorbitant cost of cloud computing, customer spending momentum continues to accelerate in the post-isolation economy. If the pandemic was good for the cloud, it seems…

Cloud

WireWheel CEO foresaw the impact of data privacy on human rights, trade and national security

By Denise Nelson Jul 16, 2021

We spoke with the CEOs of companies that participated in the recent AWS Startup Showcase: Innovations With CloudData and CloudOps to find out what drives them and learn about their visions for the future.…

Cloud

ServiceMax to go public at $1.4B valuation by merging with blank-check company

By Maria Deutscher Jul 16, 2021

ServiceMax Inc., whose cloud services are used by companies such as General Electric Co. to maintain industrial equipment, is set to go public at a $1.4 billion valuation. The company announced the upcoming listing…

Blockchain

Square is making a decentralized finance platform based on bitcoin called ‘TBD’

By Kyt Dotson Jul 16, 2021

Digital payments company Square Inc. has announced plans to launch an open-source, bitcoin-focused decentralized financial services project that will be named “TBD.” Square’s Chief Executive Jack Dorsey took to Twitter in a series of…

Apps

Fintech provider Paytm files to raise $2.2B in one of India’s largest tech IPOs

By Maria Deutscher Jul 16, 2021

Paytm, one of India’s largest financial technology startups, has submitted paperwork for an initial public offering that is set to raise as much as $2.2 billion. The documents were filed today with India’s market…

AI

Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself

By Mike Wheatley Jul 16, 2021

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has open-sourced what it claims is the first chatbot in the world that’s capable of building a long-term memory that can be continually accessed. That, combined with its…

Emerging Tech

Facebook shelves its brain-reading interface project to move in a different direction

By James Farrell Jul 15, 2021

Facebook Inc. proclaimed in 2017 that it was developing noninvasive technology that would measure thought signals, but today the company announced that the dream is no more. When the company announced it was working…

Apps

Scribd reportedly planning to going public on a $1B valuation

By Duncan Riley Jul 15, 2021

Document, book and audiobook subscription firm Scribd Inc. is in discussions to go public later this year, according to a report today from Bloomberg. The report, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, said the…

the latest

NSO Group software found targeting journalists and activists

WireWheel CEO foresaw the impact of data privacy on human rights, trade and national security

Square is making a decentralized finance platform based on bitcoin called ‘TBD’

Fintech provider Paytm files to raise $2.2B in one of India’s largest tech IPOs

Facebook’s BlenderBot 2.0 chatbot can learn and remember new things by itself

Facebook shelves its brain-reading interface project to move in a different direction

Scribd reportedly planning to going public on a $1B valuation

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