Just two years ago, VC funding to cybersecurity startups was on fire. $23 billion flooded the sector, per Crunchbase. But in 2023, cybersecurity upstarts only saw a third of that — the result of the exceptional surge in 2021, bloated valuations and investors wary of market instability. But there’s always some winners during down times. Yesterday,…
It’s M&A season in a tough tech jobs market. This morning, Beamer, a Boulder, Colorado-based company developing tools for businesses to reach users through their apps (e.g. via push notifications), announced that it’s acquiring Userflow, a user onboarding software startup, for $60 million. Beamer CEO Satya Ganni says that the purchase, which is being financially…
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“Trump is in even more trouble”: Judge demands answers after report that Trump CFO “lied under oath”
New York Judge Arthur Engoron demanded answers from the former president’s lawyers in a new email suggesting “Trump is in even more trouble,” The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery reports.The New York Times reported last week that longtime former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is in talks with Manhattan prosecutors to plead guilty to…
Google is set to face a U.S. antitrust trial over its digital ad business in September…
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Beena Ammanath Contributor Beena Ammanath is a global and U.S. Technology Trust Ethics Leader at Deloitte AI Institute. AI is on the minds of nearly every enterprise and startup leader today, challenging human decision-makers with a constant stream of “what if” scenarios for how we will work and live in the future. Generative AI, especially,…
Digital transformation has disrupted many sectors, but construction isn’t one of them. At least not yet, and there are a number of startups trying to become the first to pull it off. But the sector, especially in developing regions like Latin America, has a plethora of problems that need addressing. Infrastructure lags the needs of…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker pushing a trolley walks with pedestrians past the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) head office in central Sydney, Australia, March 7, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday as expected, but cautioned that a further increase could not be ruled out…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Srettha Thavisin, Prime Minister of Thailand, speaks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 15, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Tuesday again called on the central bank to cut interest rates, saying a 25 basis-point rate…





