Category Archives: Tech News

Sources: cybersecurity startup Snyk is preparing for an IPO as soon as mid-2022, with a target to exceed its $8.6B valuation from September (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Sources: cybersecurity startup Snyk is preparing for an IPO as soon [...]

24
Dec
Tencent plans to issue nearly all of its shares in JD.com worth $16.37B to shareholders as a dividend, reducing its stake from 17% to about 2.3% (Reuters)

Reuters: Tencent plans to issue nearly all of its shares in JD.com worth $16.37B to [...]

23
Dec
Apella, which collects data via sensors in hospital operating rooms and analyzes the information using AI to improve surgical quality, raises a $21M Series A (Janice Bitters Turi/Crunchbase News)

Janice Bitters Turi / Crunchbase News: Apella, which collects data via sensors in hospital operating [...]

22
Dec
UK business management software company Sage agrees to buy the remaining 83% stake it doesn't own in retail operating systems provider Brightpearl for ~$299M (Reuters)

Reuters: UK business management software company Sage agrees to buy the remaining 83% stake it [...]

21
Dec
Sources estimate ~20% of the world's bitcoin miners remain in China, moving operations underground and evading detection after the country's crypto mining ban (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: Sources estimate ~20% of the world’s bitcoin miners remain in China, [...]

20
Dec
Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those involved in the provision or facilitation of illegal streams, for up to 20 years (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: Malaysia passes a bill to imprison illegal streaming pirates, primarily those [...]

19
Dec
Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire, and take private, business payments company Bottomline Technologies, in an all-cash deal valuing it at about $2.6B (Reuters)

Reuters: Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire, and take private, business payments company Bottomline Technologies, in [...]

18
Dec
A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and why we won't understand what Web3 consists of until after the next bubble pops (Tim O'Reilly/O'Reilly Media)

Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Media: A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and [...]

17
Dec
Amazon says it will reduce its Alexa skills commission from 30% to 20% for developers who earn less than $1M per year, starting in Q2 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon says it will reduce its Alexa skills commission from 30% [...]

16
Dec
Sweep, a France-based software startup helping companies monitor their carbon footprints, raises a $22M Series A led by Balderton Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Sweep, a France-based software startup helping companies monitor their carbon footprints, [...]

15
Dec