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Digital media merger: BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon

By James Farrell Nov 19, 2020

Two of the largest digital media companies, Buzzfeed News and Verizon Media-owned HuffPost, today said they’ve agreed to join forces. Buzzfeed said as part of a stock deal it will acquire HuffPost, although the…

Security

Business email compromise startup Abnormal Security raises $50M

By Duncan Riley Nov 19, 2020

Business email compromise cybersecurity startup Abnormal Security Corp. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to double the size of its machine-learning and data science teams. The Series B round was led by Menlo…

Cloud

CERN explores the universe with the help of Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

By Denise Nelson Nov 19, 2020

What is dark matter or dark energy? Why don’t we see antimatter? These are questions that help us understand the origin of the universe. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the…

Security

Messaging app with 100M installs exposes private data through poor security practices

By Duncan Riley Nov 19, 2020

Go SMS Pro, a messaging app with over 100 million Android installations, has been found to expose user data through poor security practices. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs, the data is exposed because…

Infra

Devs are now telling vendors what to do – why that’s good news for backup, data mobility

By R. Danes Nov 19, 2020

Information technology is going application centric, and it’s making developers heads of the house. They’re influencing procurement decisions in organizations and also how vendors engineer technology from the start — and not just dev…

Infra

Kubernetes gets its very own app-aware backup from Portworx

By R. Danes Nov 19, 2020

Back when users of VMware Inc.’s virtual machines cried out for their own backup solution, Veeam Software Inc. answered. Now, what about containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications)? As they go on…

Emerging Tech

Amazon lays off Prime Air staff as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing

By Duncan Riley Nov 19, 2020

Amazon.com Inc. has laid off dozens of staff from its Prime Air drone delivery unit as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing. The Financial Times reported today that the layoffs involve research and development staff along…

Security

Blackstone invests $400M in cybersecurity firm FireEye

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Cloud cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. saw its stock jump more than 17% in late trading today after announcing a $400 million investment from the private equity firm Blackstone Group. Blackstone will also grab a…

Big Data

Red Hat, Cloudera try to bring big data up to post-COVID speed

By R. Danes Nov 19, 2020

Many companies used to talk about speeding up development and delivery of digital services. Then COVID-19 disrupted traditional ways of doing business, and the talking turned action. But much of digital transformation involves notoriously…

Apps

Google says RCS chat is now available worldwide, with encryption coming soon

By Mike Wheatley Nov 19, 2020

Google LLC said today its Rich Communication Services messaging capability is now available worldwide, albeit with a few exceptions, and that it will add end-to-end encryption for some beta testers later this month. For…

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Digital media merger: BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon

Business email compromise startup Abnormal Security raises $50M

Messaging app with 100M installs exposes private data through poor security practices

Amazon lays off Prime Air staff as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing

Google says RCS chat is now available worldwide, with encryption coming soon

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