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Judge rules Dell privatization deal underpaid investors
Three years ago, Michael Dell took his namesake firm off the stock market after successfully convincing a requisite majority of shareholders to accept a $24 billion privatization offer. But the executive and his allies at Silver Lake Partners didn’t have as much luck with Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of Delaware’s special corporate court, who ...
Secretive chip start Innovium raises $50M in pre-launch funding
In today’s challenging venture capital environment, having a leadership team with a proven track record can go a long way towards helping a startup raise funding. The latest testament to this fact comes from Innovium Inc., which today revealed that it has quietly secured $50 million in financing over two rounds. The first closed at ...
What you missed in Big Data: Twitter and Intel take over the agenda
Last week’s biggest analytics-related news came not from the traditional data management vendors that usually dominate the agenda, but rather the web-scale crowd. Twitter Inc. led the charge by publishing the code for Heron, a homegrown stream processing framework that its engineers use to glean high-level insights from tweets. The engine is described as between ...
What you missed in Cloud: Dollars and Docker containers
The cloud ecosystem marked a major milestone last week after Twilio Inc. became the first software-as-a-service provider to file for a public offering since the start of the year. The move sends an encouraging signal to other tech firms that are also looking to hit the stock market but have been holding off their plans ...
YC graduate Front gets $10M to bring email back in vogue
Gmail and Outlook have lost a lot ground to real-time messaging services like Slack in recent years, but workers still perform much of their communications via email, and Front Inc. is intent on keeping it that way. The YC-backed startup this week raised $10 million in funding to fuel the development of new features for ...
In sign of improving IPO market, Twilio files to go public
Two weeks after the technology industry’s second public offering of the year, a third is already in the pipe. Twilio Inc. this morning reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it’s planning to hit the stock market under the symbol “TWLO” with the help of Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and ...
Intel Capital calls off $1BN portfolio sale
Since joining the venture capital game in 1991, Intel has backed more than 1,400 startups across 57 countries and an even bigger number of segments, from software-as-a-service to healthcare automation. And according to a new blog post from the head of its investment arm, Wendell Brooks, the company plans to continue at full-throttle despite the ...
SDN buzz: Viptela raises $75M on $875M valuation
Raising $75 million would constitute a major feat for a four-year-old startup even under normal circumstances, but Viptela Inc. has managed to do so amid a historic slump in venture capital activity. The round was led by Redline Capital Management, which had previously invested in security provider vArmour Inc. earlier this week, and saw Northgate Capital ...
Agari raises $22M to protect companies from phishing
More and more organizations are training their employees to identify fraudulent emails, but judging by the 270 percent increase in phishing incidents that the FBI has recorded since 2015, the effort isn’t nearly as effective as it could be. So CSOs are now turning to automated scam prevention providers like Agari Inc., which raised $22 ...
EMC releases a unikernel engine for building next-gen cloud apps
EMC Corp., the parent company of hypervisor maker VMware Inc,. is emerging as an unexpected force in the industry shift beyond traditional server virtualization. The company yesterday open-sourced a homegrown tool called Unik that is meant to streamline the creation of unikernels, a promising alternative to virtual machines and containers. Whereas the average vSphere or ...
