Get the early-bird price on group discount passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 Cyber Security by Alexandra Ames - September 20, 20210 September arrived in the blink of an eye, and October 27 — TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 to be precise — is hot on its heels. Now’s the time to gather your team and strategize how you’ll cover the day-long event to make as many connections and discover as many opportunities
Inside GitLab’s IPO filing Cyber Security by Alex Wilhelm - September 17, 20210 While the technology and business world worked towards the weekend, developer operations (DevOps) firm GitLab filed to go public. Before we get into our time off, we need to pause, digest the company’s S-1 filing, and come to some early conclusions. GitLab competes with GitHub, which Microsoft purchased for $7.5 billion
Microsoft Office 2021 will be available on October 5th Cyber Security by Darrell Etherington - September 16, 20210 Igor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Apple has reportedly appointed wearable chief Kevin Lynch to lead its car division Elon Musk warns the Tesla Roadster might not ship until at least 2023 Microsoft will release Office 2021, the next consumer version of its productivity suite, on
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat Cyber Security by Ron Miller - September 16, 20210 As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO
Microsoft now lets you sign in without a password Cyber Security by Carly Page - September 15, 20210 Microsoft is further nudging users away from passwords by rolling out passwordless sign-in options to all consumer Microsoft accounts. The tech giant, like many others in the industry, has waged a war against traditional password-based authentication for some time. This is because passwords are a prime target for cyberattacks, since weak
Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn Cyber Security by Ingrid Lunden - September 15, 20210 While LinkedIn doubles down on creators to bring a more human, less manicured element to its networking platform for professionals, a company that has built a reputation for publishing primarily the more messy and human impressions of work life has made an acquisition that might help it compete better with
Xbox and Special Olympics hold first ‘Gaming for Inclusion’ esports event Cyber Security by Devin Coldewey - September 14, 20210 Gaming in general is moving towards accessibility, but that’s not as much the case in esports, which like other sports are competitive and by nature somewhat exclusive. Xbox and the Special Olympics are working together on a new event that combines competition with inclusion, and it’s going on right now. This
Skype alumni head to court in a battle over Starship Technologies and Wire Cyber Security by Kirsten Korosec - September 14, 20210 A new lawsuit threatens a decades-long collaboration that brought Skype, robot delivery startup Starship Technologies and encrypted enterprise messaging service Wire into the world. TechCrunch has learned that Mark Dyne, one of Skype’s founding investors, is suing billionaire Skype co-founder Janus Friis in California’s Superior Court for the County of Los
Rezilion raises $30M help security operations teams with tools to automate their busywork Cyber Security by Ingrid Lunden - September 13, 20210 Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. Today, an Israeli startup called Rezilion that is doing just
Microsoft acquires TakeLessons, an online and in-person tutoring platform, to ramp up its edtech play Cyber Security by Ingrid Lunden - September 10, 20210 Microsoft said in January this year that Teams, its online collaboration platform, was being used by over 100 million students — boosted in no small part by the Covid-19 pandemic and many schools going partly or fully remote. Now, it’s made another acquisition to continue expanding its position in the