EdgeDB, the startup looking to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Nava Ventures and Accel. The new capital brings the startup’s total raised to $19 million, which CEO Yury Selivanov said will be used to boost headcount and launch the previously announced…
The long hangover from a 2020 state-sponsored compromise still isn’t over for SolarWinds, as the software giant targeted by Russian government hackers has to pony up $26 million to shareholders and face possible enforcement action from the federal government. In a recent 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SolarWinds said it reached…
Mastodon, the decentralized social network increasingly positioned as an alternative to Twitter, has eclipsed 1 million active monthly users. That’s according to CEO and lead developer Eugen Rochko, who revealed the milestone in a post on Monday morning. Germany-based Mastodon has experienced rapid growth since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, with nearly half a million…
Amazon is now offering to replace customers’ discontinued Cloud Cam smart cameras with a new Blink Mini following its decision earlier this year to shut down its Cloud Cam line of products and end support for the device’s associated mobile apps. At the time of the retailer’s May 2022 announcement, Amazon said it would email…
WorkTorch, previously known as QuickHire, announced today the closing of a $2.2 million seed round led by Tenzing Capital. Along with the raise comes the name change, with the goal of encapsulating the business’ focus on employee recruiting and retention. Speaking to TechCrunch, its founders, sisters Deborah Gladney and Angela Muhwezi-Hall said the rebrand was…
What a difference a year makes. If you are looking for proof, go no further than OpenView Venture Partners’ 2022 SaaS benchmarks report, which couldn’t be more different from the 2021 edition. Both reports come from an annual survey of SaaS companies, and with 660 global respondents, the 2022 sample doesn’t look very different from…
This one hurts. Nearly a quarter-century after Sonic Adventure graced the Sega Dreamcast (and five years after the terrible Sonic Forces), everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog is back to break our hearts once again in Sonic Frontiers. Yes, Sonic’s taken some time off for a bit to become a big-time movie star, but he hasn’t forgotten…
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has confirmed it is scanning all of the nation’s internet-connected servers for any possible vulnerabilities in order to assess where the country lies in terms of its cybersecurity credentials. The NCSC is using a cloud-based system to run the scanning tools, which will be coming from the domain…
China is hoarding a host on undisclosed security vulnerabilities to later use against its adversaries in the West, Microsoft has claimed. In a recent report, the company noted that China has recently changed its laws to allow the government to keep newly discovered flaws away from the public eye. That way, it would be able…
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