BlackBerry sells its beleaguered cybersecurity business, Cylance, to Arctic Wolf for $160M, after paying $1.4B to acquire Cylance in 2018
Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry's beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid …
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others
if they continue on their current trajectory, I bet Google buys them for $2B within the year. Talia Goldberg / @taliagold : In October 2022, I wrote a piece about a trillion dollar opportunity in sear...
Sources: the US DOJ, which has an ongoing four-year-old probe into Apple's alleged anticompetitive behavior, has taken interest in Apple blocking Beeper Mini
Beeper Mini is officially giving up Federal Trade Commission : Interoperability, Privacy, & Security Beeper Blog : Beeper - Moving Forward Lauren Goode / Wired : A number of activist groups and advoca...
BlackBerry appoints John Giamatteo, the president of its cybersecurity business since 2021, as its CEO and no longer plans to spin off its IoT business
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
BlackBerry appoints John Giamatteo, the president of its cybersecurity business since 2021, as its CEO and no longer plans to spin off its IoT business
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
BlackBerry says CEO John Chen plans to retire on November 4 after serving in the role since November 2013 and names board member Richard Lynch as interim CEO
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal :
BlackBerry plans to split its IoT and cybersecurity units and target a subsidiary IPO for the IoT unit in its next FY, after reviewing options since May 2023
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his board exit, his reluctance to take the company public, and more
and today he cut all ties with the company Reuters : Instacart set to be valued at nearly $13 bln in Wall Street debut Ari Levy / CNBC : Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the gro...
An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google's acquisition on Israel's tech industry, and more
The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …
Q&A with BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on tech movies, why the BlackBerry really died, Storm, and why he disagrees with the “nerds rule the world” narrative
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