Cloud and DevOps infrastructure automation startup Quali Systems Ltd. today announced the release of enhanced control plane features for its Torque platform. Quali’s Torque platform is designed to speed app development and delivery through cloud automation. The enhancements enable DevOps professionals to orchestrate and secure complex application environments by simplifying infrastructure provisioning, eliminating siloed infrastructure and addressing infrastructure ...

Customer service and sales software provider Zendesk Inc. has reportedly hired an advisory firm to explore a potential sale, some two months after rejecting a private equity takeover. Bloomberg, referencing people familiar with the matter, today reported that Zendesk has hired Qatalyst Partners to explore sales opportunities. The company is said to have already reached out to ...

French music streaming company Deezer S.A. is set to go public via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company in a $1.13 billion deal. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the SPAC deal will see Deezer merge with Paris-listed I2PO SA. The firm is a blank-check company backed by the Pinault family, the controlling shareholders ...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz today launched a16z START, a startup accelerator for early-stage companies. Startup accelerators are organizations that offer membership, capital and connections to investors and business partners, with Y Combinator perhaps the best known. A16z START aims to do exactly this, fueling founders at the earliest stages of company-building with one-on-one support, ...

Insteon, a home automation company owned by Smartlabs Inc., has reportedly gone out of business after users reported that their connected devices stopped working last week. There has been no official word from the company that it has ceased operating and as of the time of writing its website is up and its status page ...

Credit-based stablecoin provider Beanstalk Farms has been hacked, with about $182 million in cryptocurrency stolen. Those behind the attack used a “flash loan” attack to access the Beanstalk network. A flash loan attack is a type of decentralized finance attack where a cybercriminal takes out a flash loan — a form of noncollateralized lending from ...

A critical vulnerability in a highly popular WordPress plugin has exposed millions of websites to hacking. Discovered by researchers at Plugin Vulnerabilities and detailed April 12, the vulnerability was found in Elementor, a WordPress plugin that allows users to build websites with more than 5 million active installations. The vulnerability was found in version 3.6.0 ...

Microservices platform provider greymatter.io announced today it has raised $7.1 million in new funding to fuel global growth as demand intensifies for its platform. Elsewhere Partners led the Series A round. Founded in 2015, greymatter.io offers a microservices platform that uses service mesh and application programming interface management to solve challenges flowing through production operations from enterprises’ DevSecOps and NetSecOps pipelines. ...

The infamous North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus has been linked to the hack of the Ronin Network, the blockchain underlying the popular “Axie Infinity” game, that resulted in the theft of $615 million in cryptocurrency in March. The link was discovered following an updated sanctions list published today by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office ...

Software-as-a-service security startup DoControl Inc. announced today that it has raised $30 million in new funding to help scale up its security innovations, launch strategic channel and partnership programs, and speed up its global growth. Insight Partners led the Series B round, with existing investors also participating. Previous investors were RTP Global, StageOne Ventures, Cardumen Capital and the ...