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Even after ousting Adam Neumann as CEO, WeWork could still go public this year — if it prices its IPO low enough

Despite postponing its public offering last week and replacing CEO Adam Neumann on Tuesday, WeWork could complete an IPO this year, business experts said. The biggest obstacle will be valuation — how much potential investors are willing to pay for the company's shares and how much its existing shareholders are willing to accept. After indicating last week it intended to press forward with its IPO in the near future, WeWork on Tuesday indicated it might be reconsidering that plan. Many of the experts think the company will wait in order to give its new management team time to prove themselves. Read all of Business Insider's WeWork coverage here . WeWork put to rest a nagging subject of speculation on Tuesday with the announcement that Adam Neumann, the controversial founder, will step down as CEO . But the office-sharing company left another critical question unanswered: the timing of its planned initial public offering. Even after everything it's been through la...

Passbase grabs $3.6M to power privacy-preserving online ID checks

Digital identity startup Passbase  has closed a $3.6 million seed round, led by Cowboy Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp and other European investors. The 2018 founded startup bagged a $600k pre-seed round earlier this year for its full-stack identity engine with a privacy twist. The latest tranche of funding will go on growing the team and sales channels in the US and Europe, says co-founder Mathias Klenk. “Our goal is to build an API-first company, so building a strong core organization is key for us to be able to fully focus on securing partnerships with complementary services,” he tells TechCrunch. “By the end of next year, we aim to have our consumer application rolled out so that individuals can leverage the core value proposition of our service and businesses can reap the rewards of seamless reauthentication,” he adds. In terms of clients, our goal is to move up in scale and conduct pilots with some of the larger players in our target segment...

Gist::Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB   —  Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data.  —  Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen