Google launches a bug bounty program for Android Enterprise
Android 12 is now officially available for Google’s Pixel phones and will slowly roll out to others in the coming months. Chances are, you think of Android as a consumer product, but over the course of...
View ArticleControlUp nabs $100M to monitor and improve desktop computing performance...
Remote and hybrid work have become the norm in business, and today a startup that’s building tools to improve how desktop computers behave in those scenarios is announcing a round of growth funding to...
View ArticleCitrix to be acquired by Vista and Evergreen/Elliott in a $16.5B all-cash...
More consolidation is afoot in the world of IT to meet a new demand from enterprises for “one-stop shops” covering a wide range of needs in our hybrid world of work. Citrix, the long-in-the-tooth...
View ArticleWill the Citrix-Tibco merger create enterprise magic? Vista clearly thinks so
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has finally found a suitable match for Tibco: it has teamed up with Evergreen Coast Capital (a unit of Elliot Management) to buy Citrix Systems for $16.5...
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Daily Crunch: Citrix to be acquired by Vista and Evergreen/Elliott in $16.5B...
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, January 31! We’re putting a bow on the first month of the year today, but that doesn’t mean we’re looking back. Not at all. First, news is popping off like...
View ArticleYahoo appoints six new board members, including Jessica Alba
Yahoo announced six new members of its board of directors today, about a year after the internet brand was acquired by private equity firm Apollo for $5 billion [Disclosure: TechCrunch is part of...
View ArticleFliplet Secures Seed Funding For Its ‘Fast’ Enterprise Apps Building Platform
You’re a business that wants to create a mobile app, but faster than it would take a designer to build something bespoke. UK-based startup Fliplet says it has come up with a simple way to do this which...
View ArticleCitrix Is The Latest Enterprise Tech Firm Under Pressure From Activist Investors
Technology companies, particularly those with an enterprise bent, appear to be coming under increasing pressure from activist investors who want to squeeze out profits at the cost of products and jobs....
View ArticleCitrix CEO Kirill Tatarinov talks about punch cards and the 3D future
Kirill Tatarinov has seen computing from bottom to top. As a student in the USSR he wrote programs on punch cards to manage the cutting edge hardware clones that Russia was churning out and now, as CEO...
View ArticleKey issues you should consider before signing an international merger deal
Ben Boissevain Contributor Share on Twitter Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital, a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to...
View ArticleNSA says Chinese hackers are exploiting a zero-day bug in popular networking...
The U.S. National Security Agency is warning that Chinese government-backed hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in two widely used Citrix networking products to gain access to targeted...
View ArticleCompany created by Citrix-Tibco merger confirms it has laid off 15% of staff
The continuing onslaught of tech layoffs has not let up in the new year. Last week, we saw big layoff announcements from Amazon and Salesforce with thousands of employees being let go. Yesterday CRN...
View ArticleCISA says hackers are exploiting a new file transfer bug in Citrix ShareFile
Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in yet another enterprise file transfer software, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has warned. CISA on Wednesday added a vulnerability...
View ArticleHackers are exploiting ‘CitrixBleed’ bug in the latest wave of mass cyberattacks
Security researchers say hackers are mass-exploiting a critical-rated vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler systems to launch crippling cyberattacks against big-name organizations worldwide. These...
View ArticleComcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers
Comcast has confirmed that hackers exploiting a critical-rated security vulnerability accessed the sensitive information of almost 36 million Xfinity customers. This vulnerability, known as...
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