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Absolute Software to buy Seattle-based NetMotion for $340M

GeekWire

The news: Absolute Software , a publicly-traded security software company, agreed to acquire Seattle-based security startup NetMotion for $340 million. Founded in 2001, NetMotion helps employees at more than 3,000 organizations access resources from devices both on premises or remotely in the cloud. million, down 1%.

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IT services company Atos plans IBM-style split

CIO Business Intelligence

The other two business lines are “digital,” which brings together digital transformation and decarbonization services, and “big data and security,” focusing on research-intensive activities in cybersecurity, high-performance and edge computing, and mission-critical systems. Legacy losses. billion ($5.3 billion) in 2022 to a low of €4.1

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Cybersecurity startup CI Security hired Steve Sedlock as chief revenue officer and promoted Kristoffer Turner to VP of security operations for its Critical Insight Security Program. The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019. Jamie Cohen. Vacasa Photo).

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

Yet the burden is often on users to protect themselves from a security issue that was created for them by some of their favorite apps. Even things that those services might recommend as an added security measure — like text, SMS, or multi-factor authentication — can actually introduce more vulnerabilities.

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Welcome to the crypto ice age

Vox

Cheese — you’ve kept a bunch of your net worth in Chuck E. It should be regulated like any security that you would buy or sell.” You know, go back to 2001: A lot of the dumb dot-com companies got washed out, but it laid the foundations of fiber optic cables and broadband and e-commerce. If Chuck E. It’s more of a commodity.”

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FTX’s implosion and SBF’s arrest, explained

Vox

Now he’s been arrested in the Bahamas following the filing of criminal charges in the US; the charges include wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance laws violations. Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth, who now says his wealth is in the tens of thousands of dollars; FTX is bankrupt.

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The Mac Studio is myth fulfillment

The Verge

A 2005 Ars Technica post by John Siracusa suggests it was coined in that site’s Mac forums in 2001 or earlier. It could still be a net win. But at the same time, many of the people who will never upgrade their computers still think they’ll upgrade their computers—or at least want the security and comfort of knowing that they could.

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