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Appfire announced that Christine Alpers joined the company as General Counsel to lead and scale the company’s global legal strategy and function. “Christine’s legal and strategic acumen, combined with her depth of experience in the software industry, a… Continue reading Christine Alpers joins Appfire as General Counsel
Acquia announced that it is renewing its founding partnership support of the Drupal Steward Program, a web application firewall introduced by the Drupal Association and operated jointly with the Drupal Security team. Acquia implemented Drupal Steward p… Continue reading Acquia renews Drupal Steward Program support to address always-evolving security risks
Fusion Risk Management announced it has appointed Clifford Chiu and Jeffery J. Weaver to its Board of Directors. Each brings extensive operational experience and expertise in governance, risk and compliance for regulated businesses to support Fusion’s … Continue reading Fusion Risk Management appoints Clifford Chiu and Jeffery J. Weaver to its Board of Directors
Moving from dorm room to billion-dollar exit is the dream of every startup founder. Dries Buytaert got there by being bold, working hard and thinking big. Continue reading Drupal’s journey from dorm-room project to billion-dollar exit
Acquia, the commercial company built on top of the open source Drupal content management system has pushed to be more than a publishing platform in recent years, using several strategic acquisitions to move into managing customer experience, and today the company announced a new approach to developing and marketing on the Drupal Cloud. This involves […] Continue reading New Acquia platform looks to bring together developers, marketers and data
Acquia announced it has acquired customer data platform (CDP) startup AgilOne today. The companies did not disclose the purchase price. CDPs are all the rage among customer experience vendors, as they provide a way to pull data from a variety of channels to build a more complete picture of the customer. The goal here is […] Continue reading Acquia nabs CDP startup AgilOne, which raised $41M
Acquia announced yesterday that Vista Equity Partners was going to buy a majority stake in the company worth a $1 billion. That would seem to be reason enough to sell the company. That’s a good amount a dough, but as co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert told Extra Crunch, he’s also happy to be taking care […] Continue reading How founder and CTO Dries Buytaert sold Acquia for $1B
Vista Equity Partners, which likes to purchase undervalued tech companies and turn them around for a hefty profit, has purchased web content management and digital experience company, Acquia in a deal valued at $1 billion. Robert F. Smith, who is founder and chairman of Vista Equity Partners, says that increasingly brands understand that delivering a […] Continue reading Vista Equity Partners buys Acquia for $1B
Despite the past year’s global focus on GDPR and other data privacy regulations designed to give consumers more power over their data, more than half (55 percent) of consumers still don’t know how brands are using their data, according to the Acquia su… Continue reading Most consumers still don’t know how brands are using their data
Drupal developers are urged to patch a bug that allows attackers to take over a site simply by visiting it. Continue reading Drupal Issues Highly Critical Patch: Over 1M Sites Vulnerable