Italy’s data watchdog latest to warn over use of Google Analytics
Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher’s use of the...
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AppOmni raises $70M to find and secure vulnerabilities in SaaS app stacks
As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. That’s...
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Budgeting and planning for your first digital product
There are five main points you should consider when developing a digital product. The first, and most important, is to establish how much you can...
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Google touts more Workspace controls for users in Europe
Google has announced a package of additional controls for users of its productivity suite, Google Workspace (neé G Suite), in Europe — which...
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Apple’s services revenue hits a record $19.8B in Q2, reaches 825M paid subscriptions
Amid a record-breaking fiscal second quarter, Apple also delivered record-breaking services revenue up 17% year-over-year to reach $19.8 billion. The...
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IDrive launches e2, a new S3-compatible object storage service
IDrive today launched IDrive e2, a new S3-compatible object storage service, with pricing starting at $0.004/GB/month.
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EU and US agree data transfer deal to replace defunct Privacy Shield
The European Union has just announced reaching an agreement in principle with the US on a revived transatlantic data flows deal — potentially...
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Gensyn applies a token to distributed computing for AI developers, raises $6.5M
For self-driving cars and other applications developed using AI, you need what’s known as ‘deep learning’, the core concepts of which emerged...
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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort
A UK-based incubator focused on non-profit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced...
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Ardoq, the enterprise architecture startup, raises $125M to help organizations make sense of their networks
As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that...
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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M
Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own...
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Privacy Shield 2.0 is ‘high priority’ but ‘not easy’, warns EU’s Vestager
Agreeing a new data transfer agreement with the US is a “high priority” for the EU, Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s executive VP for...
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Meta sent a new draft decision on its EU-US data transfers
Facebook has received a “revised” preliminary decision from its lead EU privacy regulator with implications for its ability to continue...
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AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities
AWS is announcing a major expansion of its original set of 16 Local Zones in the U.S. to 48 globally.
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Akamai acquires Linode for $900M
Akamai is acquiring hosting platform Linode for $900 million.
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Public sector bodies’ use of cloud services probed in joint EU data protection enforcement
A coordinated enforcement action focused on public sector bodies’ use of cloud services is kicking off across the European Union. More than 80...
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As its data flows woes grow, Google lobbies for quickie fix to EU-US transfers
As the legal uncertainty in Europe clouding use of US cloud services cranks up, Google has responded by firing up its lobbying engines to call for US...
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In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR
A decision by Austria’s data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does not bode...
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Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country’s competition...
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Flytrex raises $40M to build its drone-based delivery service across suburbs in the US
Flytrex, the Israeli startup working with Walmart, Chili’s, and others in North Carolina in pilots for a drone-based delivery service targeting...
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Public cloud security startup Laminar emerges from stealth with $37M
The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues, with some 98% of...
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We’re still just scratching the surface of the cloud’s potential
Battery Ventures' State of the OpenCloud report provides a set of data points that pretty clearly outline the accelerated growth of cloud...
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Lumigo raises $29M for its cloud-native application monitoring platform
Lumigo, a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A funding round led by...
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Private equity is ready to take MSP consolidation to the next level
Recent sales processes have attracted as many as 30-40 private equity bidders, and these firms are looking over their shoulder, as interest in MSP...
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One Identity has acquired OneLogin, a rival to Okta and Ping in sign-on and identity access management
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity, specifically around services to help organizations manage identity and access. Today, One...
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PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools
An under-the-radar, bootstrapped startup from Vienna, Austria — a hit with developers for technology that underpins user experience for some of...
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Airwallex raises $200M at a $4B valuation to double down on business banking
Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business...
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EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief
Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants,...
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