IT総合 How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software
A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could jeopardise ...
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IT総合 IT総合 UK blocks Microsoft’s planned $68.7B Activision bid, saying it would ‘substantially weaken competition’
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it intends to block Microsoft’s megabucks Ac...
IT総合 Lookout sells its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure and goes all-in on the enterprise
Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today ...
IT総合 Spotify passes 500M users, but its premium subscriber portion falls to 40%
Spotify now has 515 million monthly active users (MAUs), representing a 5% increase on the previous quarter and 22% incr...
IT総合 European stock trading app Lightyear arrives on the web
U.K.-based stock-trading startup Lightyear is finally expanding to the web, nearly two years after the company first eme...
IT総合 As the UK readies its first nationwide Emergency Alerts test this Sunday, here’s everything you need to know
After officially unveiling itseEmergency Alerts system last month, the U.K. government is preparing to launch the first ...
IT総合 Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark
As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verifi...
IT総合 Microsoft kickstarts settlement discussions with European cloud trade body over antitrust complaints
Microsoft has kickstarted settlement discussions with European not-for-profit trade association Cloud Infrastructure Ser...
IT総合 Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data
For many, ChatGPT and the generative AI hype train signals the arrival of artificial intelligence into the mainstream. B...
IT総合 Einride brings its electric trucks to U.K. freight sector in partnership with PepsiCo
Electric and autonomous trucking company Einride is expanding to the U.K., representing the latest in a line of European...
IT総合 Sega to acquire Angry Birds-maker Rovio for $775M
Japanese gaming giant Sega has confirmed that it’s buying Finland’s Rovio in an all-cash deal worth €706 mil...
IT総合 Scan.com, which gives patients direct access to private medical imaging services, raises $12M
Anyone in the U.K. who has tried to book an NHS medical appointment of late will know just how much of an ordeal it can ...
IT総合 Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo
Zoom today announced plans to acquire Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ inter...
IT総合 LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M
Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $2...
IT総合 Cerbos takes its open source access-control software to the cloud
Cerbos, a company building an open source user-permission software platform, has today announced a new managed cloud ser...
IT総合 After spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1, open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20M
NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January, today annou...
IT総合 Visa partners with PayPal, Venmo, and others to power interoperable digital payments
Visa is partnering with a host of financial service and payment companies for a new interoperable peer-to-peer (P2P) pay...
IT総合 Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition scrutinized by UK on competition grounds
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it’s assessing Amazon’s proposed acqui...
IT総合 AWS and Microsoft in UK crosshairs as Ofcom mulls cloud services market investigation
U.K. regulator Ofcom has given its first indication that it’s preparing to refer the local cloud infrastructure se...
IT総合 Amazon to shutter Book Depository, a UK-based online bookseller it acquired in 2011, on April 26
Amazon is set to shutter Book Depository, an online bookstore and competitor it acquired back in 2011.
The news comes ho...
IT総合 Dozer exits stealth to help any developer build real-time data apps ‘in minutes’
Data has emerged as one of the world’s greatest resources, underpinning everything from video-recommendation engin...
IT総合 Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammo...
IT総合 ‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups
Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewa...
IT総合 Activist investor Elliott ditches director nomination plans for Salesforce
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management won’t be proceeding with plans to nominate its own directors to Sa...
IT総合 Daily.dev is like Reddit meets Stack Overflow
If Reddit and Stack Overflow were ever to create an offspring, it might look a little something like Daily.dev, perhaps ...
IT総合 IPRally, a patent search engine powered by explainable AI, raises $10.8M
IPRally, a Finnish startup building a knowledge graph-based patent search engine, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million)...
IT総合 Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning
Generative AI is already looking like the major tech trend of 2023. The ability to generate fresh content via algorithms...
IT総合 Yandex and 4 other Russian tech firms to be delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE
Five Russia-affiliated internet companies are to be formally delisted from U.S. stock exchanges, a year after trading wa...
IT総合 UK Spring Budget: Government trumpets improved tax relief scheme for ‘R&D-intensive SMEs’
U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt went a small way toward addressing concerns over proposed research and development (R&D)...
IT総合 GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices
GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO...