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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform

TechCrunch

PullRequest , a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017 , helps software developers by providing an external code review team. This not only helps find bugs in code that might have been missed, it also helps identify security vulnerabilities before the software hits production. The deal closed last week.

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Nozomi Networks Raises $100M As Investors Eye Industrial Cybersecurity Once Again

Crunchbase News

Every couple of years, industrial cybersecurity makes a comeback with investors — and it looks like it’s that time again now. The San Francisco-based company offers industrial security — also called operational technology (OT) security — and IoT security platforms. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

’s Tech Nation found in 2018 that about 26% of Belfast’s workforce was employed in tech, and it is among cities in the country with the highest growth potential for 2021. According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech.

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Cybersecurity startup Guardio, now with 1M users of its browser extension, raises its first funding: $47M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

” As a bootstrapped startup, Tel Aviv-based Guardio, which was founded in 2018, has already amassed 1 million users for the extension, which is one reason why it was able to raise so much so early on. The first, Arpeely , they said specializes in real-time media auctions via machine and deep learning technologies.

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2021 Global Cybersecurity Policy Challenges and Highlights

Tenable

For many global policymakers, the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to adopt new cybersecurity and privacy policies. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic downturn represent new challenges for government security leaders. Brazil data security and Latin America regional influence.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

TechCrunch

Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million. The Productfy platform is unlike any we’ve seen in the market,” said Josh Hofer, chief risk and information security officer of Stearns Bank.