Despite a slow start for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) two and a half years ago, the fines are starting to grow as the laws begin to gather serious momentum. There are larger fines on the way for non-compliance, according to historical data. In a new report relea... Read more
3 years ago
One of the most promising coronavirus vaccine makers reported that hackers stole confidential information submitted by the company to the EU's regulatory body. On Friday, it became clear that the hackers falsified some of the information on the submissions' contents before posting it to the interne... Read more
3 years ago
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Saturday that the long-running investigation of Facebook and WhatsApp's conduct in the European Union, concerning transparency of data-sharing between the two platforms, is headed for a resolution. In what many are saying is a significant... Read more
3 years ago
It was not easy to move massive files from a desktop to Microsoft's cloud services. That just changed with the introduction of capabilities that now allow this to happen. The company has increased the upload file size limit to 250GB, from 100GB. The limit will apply to the Microsoft 365 platform... Read more
3 years ago
The acquisition may allow industry veteran Veritas to keep upstart rivals at bay. Veritas has bought HubStor, a Canadian backup and archive vendor, according to a report in storage industry watcher Block and Files. The move gives Veritas, a traditional data protection provider, an SaaS-based dat... Read more
3 years ago
Salesforce has big plans with its ISV (Independent Software Vendors) partners. The company wants to play a much larger role in the choice for strategic IT solutions of its customers. The aim is that customers no longer look at Gartner's reports or read Techzine to learn about great solutions, but c... Read more
3 years ago
The company will push for a large offering in order to compete with Snowflake and Google. San Francisco-based Databricks is planning a massive IPO for 2021, according to the company's CEO, Ali Ghodsi. He explained the latest news on the public offering in a recent interview. As we reported la... Read more
3 years ago
The data in the GDPR Fines 2020 Report, shows that 171 million euros in GDPR fines were collected in European countries in 2020. The fines were issued between January 1st, 2020, and January 1st, 2021. According to the report by Findbold, Italy accounts for the highest fines with 58.16 million eu... Read more
3 years ago
The startup is the latest in a list of Israeli startups looking at U.S. backed IPOs. SimilarWeb would join an ever-growing list of Israeli companies targeting a Nasdaq IPO in 2021, according to industry watchdog Calcalist. The anonymous report said that SimilarWeb aims to go public in the second... Read more
3 years ago
The U.S. government appealed a federal judge’s court order blocking the Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on TikTok, which would have seen the short video-sharing app with Chinese owners effectively banned in the United States. Trump's administration had come up with national secu... Read more
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