MongoDB is still investigating a security incident in which hackers penetrated customers' business systems. Contact information and metadata were allegedly accessed. The number of involved customers stays unclear. During the weekend of Dec. 16 and 17, a security incident occurred at MongoDB. On... Read more
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Task mining identifies where each employee has time to gain. Czech UltimateSuite promises to make companies 10 percent more innovative within four weeks. ServiceNow has seen the startup's potential and has agreed to acquire it as a result. How much UltimateSuite has cost ServiceNow hasn't been d... Read more
4 months ago
Microsoft is again using pop-ups to persuade users of its Edge browser to set its own Bing Search search engine as default. This is in an attempt to boost the market share of this unpopular search engine. Users of Microsoft's own Edge browser who do not have the Bing Search search engine set as ... Read more
4 months ago
Data specialist Alteryx will be definitively owned by private investment companies Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners for a total of 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion). This brings an end to a sale process that started earlier this year. Alteryx, a data science and analytics specialist, ha... Read more
4 months ago
Security specialists at Microsoft have discovered four critical vulnerabilities in the Perforce Helix Core Server source code management platform during a routine audit. The vulnerabilities let hackers run code remotely or cause Denial of Service (DoS) problems. Microsoft security researchers di... Read more
4 months ago
Google News contains ads that look like news stories, but are actually scams. Cybercriminals thus try to fool users with fake versions of newspapers. It shows that Google is nowhere near keeping up with its own format, while placing the responsibility on others. Research by Dutch news organizati... Read more
4 months ago
Adobe's acquisition of Figma has been officially terminated. The companies state this is the result of a joint decision. Getting the acquisition past regulators would have proved to be too complicated. Both the European Commission and the UK market authority are obstructing Adobe's acquisition ... Read more
4 months ago
Vertiv is expanding its liquid cooling technology with the acquisition of CoolTera. Financial details about the acquisition were not disclosed. Vertiv sees the acquisition of CoolTera as part of its longer-term strategy. The acquisition is intended to expand Vertiv's liquid cooling offerings for... Read more
4 months ago
New U.S. payment service regulations could also affect Big Tech services. Big companies like Google and Apple have started a lobbying effort. The US government wants to achieve greater oversight of payment services. According to a proposed new regulation of payment companies by the U.S. Consumer... Read more
4 months ago
The first official EU investigation based on the Digital Services Act is a fact. Social media platform X allegedly violated rules to combat disinformation and illegal content. Two weeks earlier, the EU issued an official warning against Elon Musk's platform. In particular, the spread of disinfor... Read more
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