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Hacker claims to have 30 million customer records from Australian ticket seller giant TEG
A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale…
Startups Weekly: Clash of the AI titans, and Europe is firing on all cylinders
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Mandiant says hackers stole a ‘significant volume of data’ from Snowflake customers
The security firm said the attacks targeting Snowflake customers is “ongoing,” suggesting the number of affected companies may rise.
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What Snowflake isn’t saying about its customer data breaches
As another Snowflake customer confirms a data breach, the cloud data company says its position “remains unchanged.”
Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware
Snowflake is the latest company in a string of high-profile security incidents and sizable data breaches caused by the lack of MFA.
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Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach
Live Nation says its Ticketmaster subsidiary was hacked. A hacker claims to be selling 560 million customer records.
Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools
Sigma Computing, a startup building a range of data analytics and business intelligence tools, has raised $200 million in a fresh VC round.
All-around, highly generalizable generative AI models were the name of the game once, and they arguably still are. But increasingly, as cloud vendors large and small join the generative AI…
Observe, the data observability platform, raises $115M with Snowflake investing
Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations, making it challenging — if not impossible — to manage and query that data in a…
With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech
OTB Ventures’ new $185 million fund for deep tech in Europe will mostly be deployed at the Series A stage; but up to 10% could be allocated to seed funding,…
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Databricks keeps marching forward with $1.6B in revenue
While the world waits for Databricks to IPO, the data lakehouse company just keeps raking in the dough, reporting $1.6 billion over the last year.
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman stepping down — and Wall St hates it
Apparently Frank Slootman, the veteran tech executive, was popular with investors, at least judging from their reaction that he will be stepping down as CEO of Snowflake. The company stock…
Snowflake goes all in on data clean rooms with Samooha acquisition
Snowflake is buying Samooha, a startup developing a “cross-cloud” data collaboration suite, the companies announced this morning — adding to the list of big tech acquisitions leading up to the…
Good news, startups: Q3 software results are changing the tech narrative
New data from Salesforce, Zuora, Okta, Nutanix and Snowflake makes it plain that several tech sectors are doing better than a lot of people expected.
Snowflake brings together developer and analyst needs in new GenAI tool
Companies use Snowflake to store their data in the cloud. With the ever-growing interest in generative AI and large language models, customers are looking for ways to get started with…
Databricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom
Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion. This round sticks out, particularly as…
Created to ensure open and free access to the internet, Snowflake saw a huge uptick in users during the start of the Ukraine War — and has grown even more…
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Snowflake and Databricks are putting the data stored in their services to work
Snowflake and Databricks are on similar tracks, and both announced tools to help customers put stored data stored to work in AI apps.
Snowflake-Nvidia partnership could make it easier to build generative AI applications
Snowflake has always been about storing large amounts of unstructured data in the cloud. With two recent acquisitions, Neeva and Streamlit, it will make it easier to search and build…
Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution
Snowflake is all about managing data in the cloud, whether as part of a structured data warehouse, or less structured data lake. Neeva, a search startup from two former Google…
DataOps.live gets $17.5M from Snowflake, others for DevOps-style tools aimed at data experts
DevOps has changed the game for how developers build, deploy, update and monitor applications across their network. Now, an eponymous startup called DataOps.live — which has built a DataOps platform…
Sequoia reveals in filing how much is sitting in its Sequoia Capital Fund (and yes, it’s a lot)
Almost a year ago to the day, the 50-year-old investing powerhouse Sequoia Capital announced that it had reorganized itself around a singular, permanent structure: The Sequoia Capital Fund. Now, thanks…
Daily Crunch: Adobe snaps up Figma in proposed $20B deal that has some scratching their heads
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Salesforce, Snowflake partnership moves customer data in real time across systems
Salesforce is the best selling CRM in the world, and Snowflake is one of the top cloud data lakes. The latter lets customers store and manage massive amounts of unstructured…
Bluesky built cost guardrails to help cut Snowflake data spend
Snowflake has a revenue model that investors have to love, but big customers, not so much. That’s because it’s based on a consumption model where the more you use, the…
Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. e-commerce…
Stripe expands its infrastructure play with Data Pipeline to sync financial data with Amazon and Snowflake
Stripe — the payments giant valued at $95 billion — is on a product sprint to expand its services and functionality beyond the basic payments that form the core of…
Setting up a stack of data tools is a difficult exercise for any startup to undertake, involving picking and choosing among a wide variety of tools and approaches. Mozart Data’s…
RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph, today announced that it has raised a $75…
