TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Symantec Fires CEO Steve Bennett

By TechTaffy Desk

Symantec

Symantec has fired Steve Bennett as the company’s president and chief executive officer. The decision to oust the CEO was taken at a meeting, where it was decided that he was not moving quickly enough to innovate on new products and growth initiatives, according to a report by Nicole Perlroth on Bits. Mr. Bennett has resigned from the company’s board of directors as well. 

A special committee of the Symantec board is now searching for a new permanent CEO, says the company. Symantec board member Michael Brown has been appointed as interim president and chief executive officer.  

Just in

Series A

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
Around the web

Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
Around the web

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
IT

Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.