Cisco plunks down $28B for data analysis platform Splunk

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By Christine Hall Thursday, September 21, 2023

In today's top story, Cisco makes a mega acquisition of Splunk. The $28 billion deal gives Cisco an observability platform that Ron Miller reports "could fit nicely into its security business to help customers better understand security threats, while also helping parse oodles of log data to resolve other problems like helping understand system failures or troubleshoot myriad issues across a broad array of enterprise systems." Get the scoop. Meanwhile, over at YouTube, there is a lot going on. Its Shorts features are getting some generative AI love with Dream Screen, there is a new app called YouTube Create and new AI creator tools. And our Startup Battlefield winner is . . . BioticsAI!!!! Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images

More top reads Nothing but net: Harness launches Gitness, an open source GitHub competitor. Learn more. New in social media apps: Mastodon's latest release makes the open source Twitter alternative easier to use. Find out when you might see it. Seeing stars: True Anomaly lands a $17.4 million contract from U.S. Space Force for space domain awareness tech. Read more. No driver: Waabi and Uber Freight partner to accelerate autonomous trucking. Here's how they plan to do it. Come together: Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22 million. Now get to transferring that crypto. Matar Pulao or not Matar Pulao: Khosla-backed HealthifyMe introduces an AI-powered image recognition for Indian food. Read more. Cruisin': Cruise CEO says company would join the call to ban human drivers in city centers and that a winter version of Origin AV is two years away. What is your superpower?: Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom doesn't believe in AI doomerism. Here's why. Another investigation: Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint. They say it will get difficult. Limitless: Can large language models and the systems they enable continue growing in size and capability? According to Anthropic's Dario Amodei, that is a yes. More for your Thursday: Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill Snapchat now has over 5M paying users for Snapchat+ Roblox cuts 30 on talent acquisition team as hiring slows Banish cumulative graphs from your pitch deck (TC+) GGV splits off China business following congressional panel probe Image Credits: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images

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How to spend your first $10K on paid ads For his latest TC+ column, growth marketer Jonathan Martinez dug into a topic every startup faces at some point: How to allocate a budget for your first paid marketing campaign. Starting with a hypothetical $10,000 budget, Martinez answers the following questions: Which channels should a startup leverage? How should a budget be created? Which tests are the most important in the early stages? “In the early days of your startup, it's important to be as efficient as possible, not only with this $10K budget, but also with your time,” he writes. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription. Read More Image Credits: Westend61 / Getty Images

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Linux Foundation selects 'OpenTofu' as official name for Terraform fork

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By Christine Hall Wednesday, September 20, 2023

In today's top story, Terraform renames itself OpenTofu and joins the Linux Foundation. Get the scoop.  Meanwhile, for you WhatsApp lovers in India, you can now pay businesses with a credit card. You’re welcome. And WhatsApp introduced Flows. Find out what that is. And today was also Amazon's Fall Event, and our team was there to bring you all the cool tech. The story that got you all clicking was about Alexa getting the generative AI treatment. Learn more. Here are a few others you liked: Amazon's Alexa is getting a more natural-sounding voice Amazon introduces new Echo Pop Kids, kids tablets and a family-friendly Alexa experience Amazon's new Map View feature scans your home Amazon's $180 Echo Hub is a wall-mounted smart home control panel Image Credits: kentoh / Getty Images

More top reads Farm aid: Ghana's Complete Farmer, which connects farmers to global food buyers, raises $10.4 million. Read more. If you like the Apple Watch: We answer a question for you: Is the Apple Watch Ultra 2 worth the upgrade? And have an Apple Watch Series 9 review for your reading pleasure. X marks the spot: Airbnb is verifying all properties in its top five markets, including the U.S. Bye-bye, fake listings. Get it delivered: JOKR is now valued at $800 million — a slight down round — after bagging about $50 million in Series D funding. Get the scoop. M&A: After relaunching as a studio for creators, LimeWire acquires BlueWillow, a Midjourney competitor. Read more. Businesses get some Meta love: Meta is expanding its verification program to businesses. It's not just for creators anymore. OpenAI upgrade ahead: OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3 and allows artists to opt out of training. Talk about some "prompt engineering." Quack, quack: Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5 million to grow its DuckDB-based platform. Find out more. AI in healthcare: Corti, an AI "co-pilot" for healthcare clinicians, raises $60 million. Learn how this benefits patient care. Listen here: Google-backed Indian audio platform Kuku FM raises $25 million. Read more. Image Credits: Complete Farmer

At TechCrunch Disrupt This week, we will be bringing you a sampling of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies as we make our way to the top 20 companies. Only one will win the Disrupt Cup and a $100,000 equity-free grand prize. And check out all of our content from the week here. Untap Health wants to help offices and care homes track risk from bugs like flu and COVID-19. Read more. Allie wants to layer intelligence on top of factory floors. Read more. Mainstack’s no-code online business service eliminates cross-border payment complexity. Read more. Parallel Health takes a biotech-forward approach to skincare with custom phage therapy. Read more. PDS is coming to a cop car near you to stop you from drug-driving. Read more. Reekon hopes high-tech home improvement tools can drag contractors into the 21st century. Read more. AppFactor drags legacy enterprise apps to the cloud through automation. Read more. Agri-Trak is helping farms replace pen and paper with digital tools to track labor and production. Read more. MakersHub deciphers accounts payable data so construction companies don't have to. Read more. Betweened wants to teach kids how to use social media, not shut them out of it. Read more.

Ask Sophie: Can you explain the H-1B visa, EB-2 green card transfer and Visa Bulletin? Dear Sophie, My startup is hiring. A leading candidate for one of the positions has an H-1B visa and has been waiting for an EB-2 green card for more than four years. This will be the first time our startup will navigate immigration. Can you explain the H-1B visa and EB-2 green card transfer process? When do you stick with EB-2? The "Visa Bulletin" changed? — Curious Co-Founder TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription. Read More Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch

On the pods We were live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! Alex, Kirsten and Becca took the stage with breaking IPO news, and they discussed how Joby is all in on the Buckeye state, growth in the elder tech space and Writer bringing back nine-figure joy. Listen here. Read More Image Credits: Bryce Durbin

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