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Imperva acquires bot defense startup Distil Networks
Cybersecurity heavyweight Imperva Inc. today announced that it’s buying Distil Networks Inc., a venture-backed startup that helps companies keep bots away from their websites and applications. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal marks the fifth startup buyout that the security industry has seen in the past week, a streak that speaks to ...
House Judiciary Committee will probe tech giants for possible antitrust violations
U.S. lawmakers are turning up the heat on the tech industry. The House Judiciary Committee on Monday opened an investigation to look into potential anticompetitive behavior by the companies that dominate the web. Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), who heads the panel’s antitrust subcommittee, singled out Google LLC, Facebook Inc. Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. ...
Data breach exposed up to 11.9M Quest Diagnostics patients’ medical, financial data
A backend healthcare system containing the medical and financial information of 11.9 million people has been breached, Quest Diagnostics Inc. disclosed today. The company, a major blood testing lab with 45,000 employees worldwide, detailed the incident in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The breach took place at a New York-based collection firm called American ...
Twitter acquires deep learning startup Fabula AI to fight fake news
Twitter Inc. today announced that it has bought Fabula AI Ltd., a London-based startup with a deep learning platform for detecting disinformation on online platforms. The acquisition follows a number of earlier AI investments from the social network. In 2016, Twitter paid a reported $150 million to acquire Magic Pony Ltd. another British startup that focused ...
Through landmark deal with Samsung, AMD will re-enter the mobile GPU market
A decade after selling its mobile graphics card business to Qualcomm Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is re-entering the market. AMD today announced a multiyear deal with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. that will see the handset maker use its RDNA graphics architecture in phones and tablets. Unveiled last month, RDNA was built mainly with gaming computers in ...
Foursquare raises $150M and buys key competitor to scale up analytics business
Much has changed at Foursquare Labs Inc. in the past few years. The company, which started out by providing a check-in app that allowed users to broadcast their trips, now sells location-based analytics and development tools to brands. Foursquare late Thursday revealed that it has raised a $150 million investment led by merchant bank The ...
Report: Amazon could acquire Sprint’s Boost Mobile to enter the wireless market
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly set its sights on the telecommunications sector. Two anonymous sources quoted by Reuters today said that the online retail giant is looking to acquire Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Corp. that provides prepaid wireless plans. Financial research firm Cowen Inc. estimates the unit has 7 million to 8 million subscribers. Sprint ...
Google moves to implement stronger privacy controls for Chrome and Drive
Google LLC is taking steps to regulate more closely how external services access user data in Chrome and Google Drive. Ben Smith, the company’s vice president of engineering, today detailed a set of new privacy policies that will roll out for the applications early next year. The most broad-reaching of the rules are set to focus ...
Sequoia leads $110M funding round for password security startup Dashlane
A month after raising $30 million in debt financing, password security specialist Dashlane Inc. today announced that it has picked up a $110 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The cash injection bumps the startup’s total raised to more than $210 million. Dashlane didn’t disclose its post-money valuation but did divulge that Sequoia was joined by ...
The security acquisitions continue: Insight Partners buys Recorded Future for $780M
Insight Partners does most of its investing through growth-stage funding rounds, but the venture capital giant occasionally makes bigger bets as well. The firm today announced that it has acquired threat intelligence startup Recorded Future Inc. for a hefty $780 million. The transaction is the third nine-figure acquisition that the cybersecurity industry has seen this week. ...
