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Silver Lake buys French company Silae, which offers cloud-based payroll and HR software to 550K+ customers, reportedly for €500M+ (Selin Bucak/Private Equity News)

{$inline_image} Selin Bucak / Private Equity News: Silver Lake buys French company Silae, which offers cloud-based payroll and HR software to 550K+ customers, reportedly for €500M+  —  Based in Aix-en-Provence, Silae was founded in 2010 and offers cloud-based payroll and HR software to more than 550,000 businesses in France Silver Lake buys French company Silae,

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    • Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks consisting of thousands of internet-connected systems and servers (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks consisting of thousands of internet-connected systems and servers  —  Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible. Google has open sourced Tsunami, a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks

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    • In Hong Kong, Facebook and WhatsApp have a penetration rate of around 80% according to Statista, Instagram has 60%, whereas WeChat is used by just 54% (Karen Chiu/South China Morning Post)

    Karen Chiu / South China Morning Post: In Hong Kong, Facebook and WhatsApp have a penetration rate of around 80% according to Statista, Instagram has 60%, whereas WeChat is used by just 54%  —  Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft all say they’re suspending requests for user data in Hong Kong because of a new national

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    • Ookla: T-Mobile's 5G coverage extends to 5,013 US cities, compared to AT&T's 237 and Verizon's 39; Verizon's 5G had the highest speed score of 870.5 (Bevin Fletcher/FierceWireless)

    Bevin Fletcher / FierceWireless: Ookla: T-Mobile’s 5G coverage extends to 5,013 US cities, compared to AT&T’s 237 and Verizon’s 39; Verizon’s 5G had the highest speed score of 870.5  —  Both AT&T and T-Mobile nabbed bragging rights in Q2 mobile performance, according to new analysis by Ookla. Ookla: T-Mobile's 5G coverage extends to 5,013 US

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    • BlueCity, owner of Chinese LGBTQ dating app Blued, closed up 46% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $85M at $16 per share (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)

    Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: BlueCity, owner of Chinese LGBTQ dating app Blued, closed up 46% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $85M at $16 per share  —  The owner of Blued, China’s biggest LGBTQ dating app, climbed 46% in its trading debut after raising $85 million in a U.S. initial public offering. BlueCity, owner of

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    • Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    Nick Statt / The Verge: Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi’s 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended  —  The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate  —  Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert … Sensor Tower:

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