How Source Code Impacts Company Valuation During an Acquisition

When a company is in merger-and-acquisition mode and has a list of possible takeover targets, its focus is often on revenue, market share, and brand recognition. However, underlying this is […] ...
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Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. According to a 'confidential' ...
VentureBeat

GitLab acquires software chat startup Gitter, will open-source the code

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek to open source parts of online services code

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open source five code repositories that have been ...
CSOonline

Google to launch repository service with security-tested versions of open-source software packages

The paid Assured Open Source Software service will offer common open-source packages after vetting the provenance of its code and dependencies. Developers across the enterprise space are concerned ...
VentureBeat

Meet Aardvark, OpenAI’s security agent for code analysis and patching

An aardvark works in an office typing at a desktop PC while happy human workers mill about in the background. Credit: VentureBeat made with ChatGPT Positioned as a scalable defense tool for modern ...