Valar Ventures is one of the world’s most successful venture capital firms and recently announced the $75M investment into AppDirect. This cloud-based application store offers a variety of cloud-based applications. This investment is the latest in a series of investments Valar Ventures has made in the technology and cloud-computing industries. This article will explore the…

Commerce platform ShopUp has raised $75 million in Bangladesh’s largest funding mission to help empower small businesses. This is one of the largest investments for a Bangladesh-based startup and is seen as a major win for the nation’s burgeoning tech industry. With this investment, ShopUp will be able to expand its services and widen its…

As news of a massive data breach affecting 71,000 employee accounts recently emerges, employers must ensure their information is secure and confidential. While hackers are constantly developing new methods for accessing confidential or private information, it’s ultimately up to employees to protect themselves from being hacked. In this article we’ll discuss how employees can safeguard…

Cloudera Inc., the enterprise data cloud platform company, announced on May 17th 2021, that KKR and CD&R have agreed to acquire it for $5.3 billion, a 35% premium to its last closing price. KKR and CD&R are private equity firms and the deal will see them join forces to purchase the software company and take…

On November 13, 2018, Cloudera announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2019. Cloudera, a leader in open source analytics, will become a private company…

Cloudera announced that it has completed an agreement with its stockholders to become a private company. This comes after years of working to become a leader in the big data industry. The agreement was led by Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CDR) and valued Cloudera at $5.3 billion. As a result, Cloudera is now perfectly positioned…

The threat of a major ransom attack looms over computer chip giant Nvidia. Thousands of its employee passwords have been exposed online by hackers, who now demand ransom in exchange for the passwords. The attack underscores the ongoing cyber security threats facing corporations and the potential of hackers to target vulnerable employees with phishing attacks.…