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US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
Asana beats in Q2 with revenue of $89.5M, up 72% YoY, net loss of $68.4M, up from $41.1M last year, and says it has over 107K paying customers
CrowdStrike beats in Q2 with revenue of $337.7M, up 70% YoY; ARR rose 70% YoY to $1.34B, subscription revenue was $315.8M, up 71% YoY, net new subs grew 81% YoY
Cloudera reports Q2 revenue of $236.06M, up 10% YoY, subscription revenue of $213.3M, up 11% YoY, and ARR of $832M, up 13% YoY, announces departure of its CPO
Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Dell beats in Q2 with $26.1B revenue, up 15% YoY, as net income fell to $880M; PC revenue rose to a record $14.3B, up 27% YoY, as servers rose 6% YoY to $4.5B
VMware reports Q2 revenue of $3.14B, up 9% YoY, vs estimates of $3.1B, Subscription and Saas revenue of $776M, up 23% YoY, is on track for Dell spin-off in Nov.
ByteDance joins the Open Invention Network, the largest US-based patent non-aggression consortium covering Linux and related open-source tech
eBay Q2: revenue of $2.7B, up 14% YoY, GMV of $22.1B, down 7%, 159M global active buyers, down 2%; 80% of eBay's S. Korean division sold to Emart for ~$3B
NortonLifeLock says that it will merge with Avast in a cash and stock deal worth between $8.1B and $8.6B
AU gov asks big tech to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted comm
Dropbox beats in Q2 with revenue of $530.6M vs estimates of $524.06M, up 13.5% YoY, 16.14M paying users up from 14.96M YoY, and ARR of $2.17B, up 12.2% YoY
Microsoft's desktop-as-a-service Windows 365 Cloud PC is generally available and costs between $20 to $162 per user per month, based on cores, RAM, and storage
Researchers detail a never-before-seen attack against Iran's train system and transport ministry from a new threat actor using a reusable wiper called Meteor
OpenAI introduces Triton 1.0, an open-source programming language for writing GPU code for neural networks, and claims it is easier to write than Nvidia's CUDA
PayPal beats with Q2 revenue of $6.24B, up 17% YoY, total payments volume of $311B, up 40% YoY, and 11.4M new active accounts for 403M total; stock down ~5%
Facebook says Q2 ad revenue was $28.58B, up 56% YoY, with average price per ad up 47% YoY and a 6% YoY increase in ads delivered
Google announces a new bug bounty program, called Bug Hunter University, and says the existing program found 11,055 bugs from 2,022 researchers, paying ~$30M
IBM report: in 2021, the average data breach costs companies $4.24M to remedy, up 10% YoY; "mega" breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost $401M
Report: malware developers are increasingly writing malicious code in "exotic" programming languages like Golang to hamper analysis efforts and evade detection
AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY
Analysis: 740 organizations faced ransomware attacks and had their data posted to leak sites in Q2 2021, up 47% QoQ; attacks on retail sector grew 183% QoQ
Google unveils a public preview of Google Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection, a ML-powered service for Google Cloud apps and sites to protect against DDoS attacks
AWS announces general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that allows health organizations to store and work with health data in cloud
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Industrial technology conglomerate Fortive has agreed to acquire ServiceChannel, which makes cloud software for facilities management, for $1.2B in cash
Amazon launches AWS BugBust, a competition to let developers find and fix 1M+ bugs and reduce technical debt by $100M+; top ten will get AWS re:Invent tickets
Techmeme · 3 months ago