Streaming database platform provider Materialize lands $60M

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Materialize, a company developing a streaming structured query language (SQL) database platform, today announced that it raised $60 million in series C funding, bringing the company’s total raised to more than $100 million. Redpoint Ventures contributed the capital with participation […]

Payment automation platform Primer nabs $50M

Primer, a London-based payment automation platform for merchants, today announced that it raised $50 million in series B funding led by Iconiq Growth with participation from Accel, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp, Speedinvest, and RTP Global. The proceeds from the round, which value the company at $425 million, will be put toward international sales growth and product […]

Elastic acquires continuous profiling company Optimyze to improve cloud efficiency

Elastic has announced plans to acquire Optimyze, the company behind the continuous profiling platform Prodfiler. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The news follows less than two months after Elastic, the company behind the Elasticsearch big data analytics and search engine, acquired two cloud security companies called Cmd and Build.Security. With Optimyze under its […]

Redeem These Codes For Free Primogems In Genshin Impact 1.6

Genshin Impact is hurtling towards yet another big game update that is going to absorb the life of all fans for at least a few weeks – or until they manage to pull the new character, Kaedehara Kazuha. The new Archipelago area which Klee guides you around has a lot to discover, including dozens of […]

MLB The Show 21 – Review In Progress

MLB The Show 21’s stadiums are at full capacity with fans basking in the summer sun and eating hot dogs as they cheer on the home team. It’s a vision of a pandemic-free world, something we all desperately hope to return to. This ideal scenario vanishes when the final out is recorded and the players […]

Evangelion Studio Threatens Prison To Anyone Who Pirates Latest Film

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time is in theaters now, but only in Japan. However, despite the singular release country and the ongoing pandemic, it’s doing pretty well over there. According to Deadline (which comes by way of Kotaku), Khara raked in 828 million yen ($7.6 million) on opening day alone. And that’s despite curfews […]

Cyberpunk 2077 publisher CD Projekt targeted in ‘cyber attack’

CD Projekt, the company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, was targeted Monday in a major “cyber attack,” according to a statement published on Twitter. Hackers reportedly stole “certain data belonging to CD Projekt capital group,” CD Projekt said. The company said it is currently securing its servers and restoring encrypted data. In the […]

Former Discord Director of PR Joins Gaming PC Maker NZXT

Former Discord Director of PR and Events Tali Fischer has joined City of Industry, California-based PC hardware maker NZXT as its new director of public relations and community. Fischer left the popular gaming chat app and community earlier this month. Fischer is a seasoned game industry veteran who has worked in leading PR roles since […]