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Gong now valued at $2.2B after raising $200M for its AI sales platform
Gong I.O. Ltd., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies generate more revenue, today said that it has raised $200 million in funding at a $2.2 billion valuation. The investment follows a year in which the San Francisco-based startup says it has grown its revenue by 250%, though on an undisclosed base. Gong ...
Qualcomm wins key appeal in chip licensing antitrust case
Qualcomm Inc. has successfully appealed a 2019 court ruling that ordered the company to renegotiate its lucrative chip deals with mobile device makers and sent its stock price plunging more than 10% at the time. The ruling was overturned earlier today by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a unanimous 3-0 decision. The legal ...
Upgrading its education portfolio, Google debuts new virtual class features for Meet
Google LLC today refreshed its portfolio of productivity tools for the education market with a slew of new online learning features headlined by improvements to Google Meet, its videoconferencing service. Meet is included in the G Suite Education version of the search giant’s productivity suite, which is used by schools worldwide. G Suite Education also ...
Google wants to detect earthquakes with crowdsourced Android sensor data
Google LLC today detailed a new project aimed at harnessing crowdsourced sensor data from Android devices to warn users when an earthquake hits their area. There are more than 2.5 billion Android devices worldwide and most have a built-in accelerometer that measures motion. These accelerometers, Google has found, are often sensitive enough to pick up ...
Slack debuts new encryption and ‘information barrier’ features for enterprises
Slack Technologies Inc. today announced a set of new and upcoming security features to help enterprises protect data that employees share in chat channels. Slack’s main competitor in the enterprise market is Microsoft Corp’s Microsoft Teams. Today’s update will enable it to compete better with the security features offered by Teams in a number of areas, ...
Security startup Perimeter 81 lands $40M round after quadrupling revenues
Cybersecurity startup Perimeter 81 Ltd. today said that it has closed a $40 million funding round led by Insight Partners, its third capital raise in eight months, after seeing recurring revenues quadruple year-over-year. The investment follows a Series A round in November of 2019 and a $5 million seed raise in March of that year. ...
K2View raises $28M for its secure ‘micro-database’ technology
K2View Ltd. today announced that it has raised $28 million in funding to widen the adoption of its “micro-database” platform, which the startup says can reduce the risk of business records being hacked and simplify data projects. Forestay Capital led the round with participation from Genesis Partners. Dallas-based K2View sells a data management platform called ...
Google gives Android TV’s developer tooling an upgrade
Google LLC today updated its developer tools to make it easier to build apps for smart TVs powered by Android TV, a platform with an increasingly big role in its consumer hardware strategy. Android TV is a version of Google’s mobile operating system designed to power standalone displays. It’s an important part of the search giant’s effort ...
Facebook’s new open-source Pysa security tool detects hackable code
Facebook Inc. today launched Pysa, an open-source tool it has developed to catch vulnerable code snippets written by engineers before they make it into production. Pysa is designed exclusively to analyze code written in Python. That limits the scenarios where the tool can be applied, but it could be still useful for other companies because Python is ...
‘Achilles’ chip flaws in Android devices let hackers plant unremovable malware
Newly disclosed chip vulnerabilities that may affect a large number of Android devices can be abused by hackers to plant unremovable malware on users’ handsets and steal their data. The flaws were discovered by publicly traded cybersecurity provider Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The company plans to discuss the vulnerability series, which it has codenamed ...