This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school.
Rundown
Confluent IPOEverything you need to know about the Confluent IPO
Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data
Confluent S1
Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson
Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements
Relevant to your interests
Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch
Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion
FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion
Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps
Passport
Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023
The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer
Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch
Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry
Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton
Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour)
Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations
Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service
The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy?
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
Nonsense
MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says
The Great Wings Rush
AMC is the new meme stock posterchild.
Introducing the United supersonic fleet.
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