Corporate expense management platform Ramp on Thursday said it has raised $750 million at a valuation of $44 billion, nearly tripling its valuation within just a year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup. The funding round was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and saw investments from…
Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that begins next week. The technology giant said that its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a figure up from the $1.3 trillion it announced last…
Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Computex, the world’s biggest computing trade show, is winding down, but it was a huge one this year. Nvidia announced its new RTX Spark processor, rallying each of the major consumer laptop brands to show off a veritable army of high-performance laptops boasting…
When I first opened the box the Oura Ring 5 comes in, my first thought was, “Wow, that’s tiny.” My second thought was that this is a smart ring a lot of people have been waiting for. As someone who got quite used to wearing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic, I was surprised how noticeably…
ZDNET Editor’s Note: ZDNET’s Deal of the Week is an editorially selected deal we feel is deserving of reader attention due to its high rating and value. SSD deals have been hard to find lately, thanks in part to ongoing economic pressures. That’s why this early Amazon Prime Day discount on Samsung’s 990 Pro SSD instantly…
As search becomes increasingly dominated by AI summaries and commercial content, people are experimenting and coming up with ways to make the web feel more human like it used to, building everything from “small web” search engines to decentralized social networks. One of the newer efforts in that direction is Wander Console, an open source,…
If we look back at the year of 2026 so far, it might be easy to see cybersecurity falling by the wayside, as much of the world’s attention remains on wars raging, the climate worsening, and we’re seemingly just one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But cybersecurity remains a powerful barometer of…
The U.K. has just imposed legal guardrails on Google’s AI search onslaught. On Wednesday, Google announced compliance with the U.K.’s regulatory requirements, which state that the tech giant must offer publishers a way to opt out of being aggregated into AI search. To opt out, publishers will be able to use a new toggle in…
Developer platform GitLab has laid off about 14% of its workforce, about 350 employees, as part of a broader restructuring effort it detailed last month. The company said in May that it was going to reduce its workforce as it exited 22 countries, flattened management layers, and invested in infrastructure to scale its platform and…
Suno, the AI music-generation company, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $400 million Series D round, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. It was only about seven months ago that Suno raised at a $2.45 billion valuation, underscoring that investors are confident in the company’s future despite the litigation it faces. That legal…