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Google buys Wiz: How the cybersecurity startup went from $0 to $32 billion in just over 5 years

Fast Company Tech

Last May, the company raised $1 billion in funding, giving it a $12 billion valuation. The companys researchers have alerted the public to a number of cloud vulnerabilities in everything from Microsofts Azure cloud system to the cloud systems of Oracle and IBM. As Wizs fortunes rose, so too did its reputation.

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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

The investment, which catapults Zilliz’s to-date raise to over $53 million, is a sizable amount for any open source business around the world. After six years as a software engineer at Oracle, Xie left the U.S. and headed home to start Zilliz in China.

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MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

TechCrunch

He had already talked to the team while building SelectQ, but Canaan never got to make an investment because the company got acquired before it needed to raise more funding. Panuganty tells me that when he met with Canaan Partners, he wasn’t really looking for an investment. Image Credits: MachEye.

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Daily Crunch: Oracle dives deeply into healthcare after closing $28B Cerner acquisition

TechCrunch

Oracle’s done deal : Oracle quietly wrapped up its acquisition of Cerner, which goes into effect Wednesday. Electronic health records is big business, and while this merger gives Oracle a major seat at the table, it is not yet known how these companies will mesh or whether Cerner will be lucrative for Oracle.

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Nigeria’s SeamlessHR raises $10M to expand HR and payroll solutions across Africa

TechCrunch

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion.

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TVision raises $16M to measure viewer attention on connected TVs

TechCrunch

TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. However, Liu said it can offer cross-platform insights through a partnership with Oracle’s Moat.

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