Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

A takeover of Wiz, which makes cybersecurity software for cloud computing, would represent a major bet by Google on cybersecurity, marking the tech giant’s biggest-ever acquisition.

  • @FiniteBanjo
    35•1 month ago

    Sounds like it’s time for congress to take discussion of dissolving Alphabet a lot more seriously.

    • Sabata
      3•1 month ago

      Imagine how much google would have to bribe them to get out of that mess.

      • @FiniteBanjo
        3•1 month ago

        GOP is pretty cheap. DNC have to be corrupt from the start to even have a chance. So, either a little or enough to cover an entire election campaign for starters.