Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding

Barely more than eight months after announcing a $37 million funding round, Mux has another $105 million. The Series D was led by Coatue and values the company at more than $1 billion (Mux isn’t disclosing the specific valuation). Existing investors Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Cobalt also participated, as did new investor Dragoneer. Co-founder and […] Continue reading Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding

Australia investigates reported hacks aimed at parliament, media

Australian officials are investigating two apparent security issues that have resulted in downtime for a parliamentary email system, and technical issues for a popular television broadcaster. An apparent cyber incident knocked Australia’s Parliament House’s email system offline just as Australia’s Channel Nine broadcasting was interrupted by hackers over the weekend. The suspected attack on Parliament has reportedly left MPs and senators without email access, while the incident affecting Channel Nine has primarily interrupted the broadcasting and corporate business departments, leaving the network unable to air its Weekend Today show on Sunday, the network said. Local media outlets reported that the incident was the largest cyberattack to ever affect an Australian media company. The publishing and radio departments appeared to continue functioning without issue. Meanwhile, smartphones and tablets at Department of Parliamentary Services were malfunctioning as a result of an attack there, DPS said in a statement. It was not immediately […]

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Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data

Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and more. Dataminr, which ingests information from a mix of 100,000 public data sources, and then based on that provides customers real-time insights into ongoing events […] Continue reading Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data