Kyle Vogt, who co-founded Cruise and ran the startup for years following GM’s acquisition in 2016, is back in charge. Vogt made the announcement Monday via a…
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After 2 rejected deals, Zendesk considers its next steps
When Zendesk spurned a $17 billion acquisition offer earlier this month, it did so partially on the basis that the proposed transaction undervalued the…
Dear Sophie: How can US tech companies support Ukrainians with immigration?
Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for…
A new main series Pokémon game is coming in late 2022
Step aside, whatever “Pokémon Café Remix” is — the ninth generation of Pokémon is coming. This morning, a Pokémon Presents broadcast announced “Pokémon Scarlet…
Amazon Music to overtake Pandora as No. 2 US music streamer this year
According to estimates from Insider Intelligence (previously eMarketer), Amazon Music will surpass Pandora this year to become the music streamer with the…
Day One Ventures adds climate-focused partner Sanjiv Sanghavi
Day One Ventures — which, among other things, invested in Superhuman, Truebill, DuckDuckGo and others — is bringing on ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as…
Daily Crunch: State-sponsored hackers target private email addresses of Ukrainian military
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Daily Crunch: Overnight, Russia’s invasion puts Ukrainian tech industry on a war footing
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Critical Flaw Uncovered in WordPress Backup Plugin Used by Over 3 Million Sites
Patches have been issued to contain a “severe” security vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over three million installations, that can be…
Carvana acquires Adesa US auction business for $2.2B to jump-start used car sales
Carvana, the online used car marketplace, has agreed to buy Kar Global’s Adesa U.S. auction subsidiary for $2.2 billion in cash, an acquisition aimed at adding…
9-Year-Old Unpatched Email Hacking Bug Uncovered in Horde Webmail Software
Users of Horde Webmail are being urged to disable a feature to contain a nine-year-old unpatched security vulnerability in the software that could be abused to…
CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Flaws in Zabbix Network Monitoring Platform
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of two security flaws impacting Zabbix open-source…