December 24, 20210CommentsSources: cybersecurity startup Snyk is preparing for an IPO as soon as mid-2022, with a target to exceed its $8.6B valuation from September (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
December 24, 20210CommentsAutomation Anywhere says it will buy FortressIQ, a process discovery startup that uses AI to automate internal processes mapping; FortressIQ has raised $46M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
December 24, 20210CommentsThe Coalition for App Fairness loses its best advocate as Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify’s Chief Legal Officer, leaves for The Walt Disney Company (Florian Mueller/FOSS Patents)
December 24, 20210CommentsAnt Money, which operates three finance apps, including micro-income app ATM and gamer savings app Blast, raises a $20M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
December 23, 20210CommentsAmid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
December 23, 20210CommentsTesla is releasing a software update that blocks its Passenger Play gaming feature while the vehicle is in motion, after the NHTSA opened an investigation (Neal E. Boudette/New York Times)
December 23, 20210CommentsSources: amid budget woes, the US DOJ has delayed deciding whether to sue Apple or file a new suit against Google over antitrust concerns until at least March (Leah Nylen/Politico)
December 23, 20210CommentsMeta brings back Kevin Martin, a Republican, as its head of US public policy, after failing to find a Democrat to lead its lobbying team (Sylvia Varnham O’Regan/The Information)
December 23, 20210CommentsThe China Initiative’s first academic guilty verdict raises more questions than it answers
December 23, 20210CommentsDespite huge leaps in 2021, the crypto industry remained plagued by long-term problems: trading glitches, infrastructure snafus, hacks, and other weirdness (Bloomberg)