Improbable draws $502 million from SoftBank and others for dream of giant online game worlds

How’s this for improbable? Online gaming world enabler Improbable has raised $ 502 million in a second round of investors, including SoftBank. Improbable has created an operating system, SpatialOS, that marshals the power of cloud computing and distributed platforms to enable even small studios to develop games with giant worlds. The London-based company showed off a […]

SoftBank leads $16.5 million investment into cloud infrastructure security startup Dome9

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank is leading a $ 16.5 Million “strategic” investment into Dome9 Security, an Israeli cloud infrastructure security company. Founded out of Tel Aviv in 2010, Dome9 targets enterprises with a SaaS (software as a service) platform that helps them assess their network security and detect potential misconfigurations, while simultaneously protecting against cyberattacks. The company recently moved […]