software News of 01/16/21

Twitter’S Decentralized Future

This week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey finally responded publicly to the company’s decision to ban President Trump from its platform, writing that Twitter had “faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance” and that he did not ...

Atlassian Brings New DevOps Metrics To Jira

Atlassian is launching an update to its ubiquitous Jira issue and project tracking service today — and specifically the Jira Software Cloud version — that brings a number of new features for visualizing and measuring how code moves ...

Portugal’S Bizay – A Customized Products Marketplace For SMBs – Just Raised A $38.6m C Round

Bizay , a marketplace for small-to-medium-sized businesses allowing them to create highly customized products (such as merchandise), has raised a $38.6 million (€32 million) funding round. The Series C financing round was co-led by investors Indico ...

Ivanti Has Acquired Security Firms MobileIron And Pulse Secure

IT security software company Ivanti has acquired two security companies: enterprise mobile security firm MobileIron, and corporate virtual network provider Pulse Secure. In a statement on Tuesday, Ivanti said it bought MobileIron for $872 million ...

‘Complete Success’: Rocket Lab’S Booster Recovery Is A Big Step Towards Reusability

Rocket Lab has successfully recovered the first stage of an Electron launch vehicle after it made a controlled splashdown in the Atlantic, marking a major milestone in the company’s quest for a reusable rocket. CEO Peter Beck, speaking to ...

Splunk Acquires Network Observability Service Flowmill

Data platform Splunk continues to make acquisitions as it works to build out its recently launched observability platform . After acquiring Plumbr and Rigor last month, the company today announced that it has acquired Flowmill , a Palo ...

Australia’S Spy Agencies Caught Collecting COVID-19 App Data

Australia’s intelligence agencies have been caught “incidentally” collecting data from the country’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the first six months of its launch, a government watchdog has found. The report, ...

LA-Based Boulevard Raises $27 Million For Its Spa Management Software

Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. Founded four years ago by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard was inspired ...

A Bug Meant Twitter Fleets Could Still Be Seen After They Disappeared

Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its mobile users post short stories , like photos or videos with overlaying text, that are set to vanish ...

FireEye Acquires Respond Software For $186m, Announces $400m Investment

The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million. Today it was FireEye’s turn snagging Respond Software , a company that helps customers investigate and understand ...

Google Plans To Test End-To-End Encryption In Android Messages

For the past year and a half, Google has been rolling out its next-generation messaging to Android users to replace the old, clunky, and insecure SMS text messaging. Now the company says that rollout is complete, and plans to bring end-to-end ...

Instagram Revamps Its Mobile Messaging App Threads

Instagram is continuing to develop its standalone messaging app, Threads. Last month, the company modified the app to make it possible for users to message everyone, instead of just “close friends,” as its other messaging app, Direct, ...

Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions Of Users’ Private Photos And Files

Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug. Security researchers at Trustwave discovered the flaw in ...

OpsLevel Raises $5m To Fix DevOps

The term ‘DevOps’ has been rendered meaningless and developers still don’t have access to the right tools to put the overall idea into practice, the team behind DevOps startup OpsLevel argues. The company, which was co-founded by ...

Instagram Expands New ‘Guides’ Feature To All Users

Earlier this year, Instagram launched a new feature called “Guides,” which allowed creators to share tips, resources and other longer-form content in a dedicated tab on their user profiles. Initially, Instagram limited Guides to a ...

Google Updates Maps With More COVID Info And Finally Launches Its Assistant Driving Mode

Google today announced an update to Google Maps that includes a number of new COVID-related features, as well as the ability to see the live status of your takeout or delivery orders, as well as the launch of the long-expected new Assistant driving ...

Hulu Will Increase The Price Of Its Live TV Service Again On December 18th

It’s price hike season! Just a few weeks after Netflix bumped up prices on a bunch of its plans , it looks like Hulu will soon be charging more for its Live TV service. The company has confirmed to us that it will be bumping the monthly ...

Arrikto Raises $10m For Its MLOps Platform

Arrikto , a startup that wants to speed up the machine learning development lifecycle by allowing engineers and data scientists to treat data like code, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $10 million Series A round. The round was led by ...

Strava Raises $110 Million, Touts Growth Rate Of 2 Million New Users Per Month In 2020

Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia, and including participation by Dragoneer group, Madrone Capital Partners, Jackson Square Ventures and Go4it ...

Zilliz Raises $43 Million As Investors Rush To China’S Open Source Software

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. Zilliz ‘s latest financing round shows that attitude is changing. The three-year-old Chinese ...