Cisco acquires Opsani for insight into cloud-native environments
Cisco is acquiring cloud optimization specialist Opsani. The tech giant plans to use the acquisition to further expand its Cisco AppDynamics portfolio with full-stack observability capabilities for cloud-native environments.
The acquisition provides Cisco with a specialist in the field of contin... Read more
‘Merger Citrix and TIBCO in the making’
Investment firms Elliott Management and Vista Equity Partners are planning to acquire Citrix. If the deal happens for about 11.6 billion euros ($13 billion), a merger with TIBCO is likely to follow.
This is according to sources from Reuters. According to the sources, the investment companies cou... Read more
Vodafone joins with Intel to challenge network suppliers on OpenRAN
The project will be powered by a new R&D centre in Malaga, Spain
Vodafone has teamed up with Intel and other silicon vendors to design its own chip architecture for nascent OpenRAN network technology, according to a report in Reuters. The partnership aims to weaken the grip of traditional te... Read more
New exploit in Windows 10 makes everyone an admin
A new vulnerability in Windows 10 allows hackers to become administrators. Microsoft has fixed the vulnerability with a security update.
CVE-2022-21882 was discovered in December by security expert RyeLv. The vulnerability allows hackers to call the relevant user-level GUI API to make kernel cal... Read more
Xeneta acquires CLIVE Data Services to excel in the global freight market
The air freight data analysis company will help Xeneta use its "dynamic load factor" and capacity analyses capabilities
The deal comes months after Xeneta announced its partnership with CLIVE B.V. to integrate its capabilities into Xeneta's market analytics platform.
Acquisition season is sti... Read more
Infor launches new Infor App Marketplace for global audiences
The listing marketplace will soon be developed into a real-time provisioning platform for their clientele
In a keynote session at Inforum 2022, the CTO of Infor Mr. Soma Somasundaram announced the launch of the Infor marketplace. The purpose of this marketplace is to allow partners to work on de... Read more
‘Social media fraudsters pocketed 690 million euros’
95,000 US residents fell victim to social media fraud in 2021. The total damage amounts to 770 million dollars (690 million euros).
The Federal Trade Commission (US market watchdog) shares the news in a report. One in four of all fraud victims was misled by an ad or post on social media. The com... Read more
SUSE launches Rancher Desktop to run Kubernetes on desktops
SUSE introduces Rancher Desktop. The open source app provides a simple interface to develop, deploy and test Kubernetes containers on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Rancher Labs, developer of Rancher Desktop, made it big with a platform for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in environments of ... Read more
Norway agrees: users of Google Analytics may be punishable
Datatilsynet, Norway's data and privacy authority, advises organizations in Norway to consider alternatives to Google Analytics. The watchdog announces that two ongoing investigations may lead to convictions for using Google Analytics.
Datatilsynet published a response to a recent case in Austri... Read more
Atlassian acquires AI chatbot specialist Percept.AI
Atlassian recently acquired chatbot specialist Percept.AI. Atlassian plans to integrate the AI chatbot specialist's technology into its Jira solutions.
Atlassian has been increasingly expanding its Jira portfolio. In the past two years, Halp (Slack specialist), Mindville (enterprise assets) and ... Read more