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Appian, Amplitude, and BigCommerce are balancing growth and caution Earnings season is winding down, with the biggest tech companies’ results now comfortably behind us. To ensure that we’re extracting the maximum from the reporting cycle, TechCrunch chatted with a handful of smaller companies after their second-quarter numbers dropped, digging into the data and working to…
Appian, Amplitude, and BigCommerce are balancing growth and caution Earnings season is winding down, with the biggest tech companies’ results now comfortably behind us. To ensure that we’re extracting the maximum from the reporting cycle, TechCrunch chatted with a handful of smaller companies after their second-quarter numbers dropped, digging into the data and working to…
Appian, Amplitude, and BigCommerce are balancing growth and caution Earnings season is winding down, with the biggest tech companies’ results now comfortably behind us. To ensure that we’re extracting the maximum from the reporting cycle, TechCrunch chatted with a handful of smaller companies after their second-quarter numbers dropped, digging into the data and working to…
Amazon has signed a deal to acquire US smart-home brand iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, for $1.7 billion. The disc-shaped Roomba robot – which autonomously vacuums floors using IoT sensors to navigate obstacles, drops, and dirt – integrates with various smart home systems. The deal is the latest big-ticket bid from the…
The U.S. has sanctioned decentralized cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash for its role in enabling billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to be laundered through its platform. Tornado Cash, along with other mixers such as AlphaBay, enables customers to conceal the source of their crypto funds when participating in a transaction in exchange for a…
A new botnet named Orchard has been observed using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s account transaction information to generate domain names to conceal its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. “Because of the uncertainty of Bitcoin transactions, this technique is more unpredictable than using the common time-generated [domain generation algorithms], and thus more difficult to defend against,” researchers from…
The UK Government has announced plans to “unleash” 5G and 6G innovation, including through a partnership with South Korea. Up to £25 million has been set aside for the ‘Future Open Networks Research Challenge’. Academics and industry players can apply for funding to support their early-stage research into open and interoperable telecom solutions, such as…
The UK Government has announced plans to “unleash” 5G and 6G innovation, including through a partnership with South Korea. Up to £25 million has been set aside for the ‘Future Open Networks Research Challenge’. Academics and industry players can apply for funding to support their early-stage research into open and interoperable telecom solutions, such as…
The UK Government has announced plans to “unleash” 5G and 6G innovation, including through a partnership with South Korea. Up to £25 million has been set aside for the ‘Future Open Networks Research Challenge’. Academics and industry players can apply for funding to support their early-stage research into open and interoperable telecom solutions, such as…
