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CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $786M, vs. $777M est., ARR up 35% YoY to $3.15B, and net income of $26.7M, vs. a net loss of $55M a year ago (Emily Bary/MarketWatch) November 28, 2023

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: CrowdStrike reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $786M, vs. $777M est., ARR up 35% YoY to $3.15B, and net income of $26.7M, vs. a net loss of $55M a year ago  —  CEO calls out ‘increased win rates and record pipeline’  —  CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. exceeded expectations with its latest […]

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The company today said it lost six hours of database data, including issues, merge requests, users, comments, and snippets, for GitLab.com and was in the process restoring data from a backup. Data was accidentally deleted, according to a Twitter message.

“Losing production data is unacceptable, and in a few days we’ll post the five whys of why this happened and a list of measures we will implement,” GitLab said in a bulletin this morning. Git.wiki repositories and self-hosted installations were unaffected.

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