An Amazon Fire TV is one of the best purchases you can make during and even after Prime Day. The annual sales event has historically featured significant markdowns on these televisions, with prices as low as $100 for a 43-inch 4K Fire TV in years past. However, these deals can be short-lived (especially after Prime Day), so a keen eye is necessary to get the best savings around Prime Day.Amazon often offers striking Lightning Deals for Fire TVs, so much so that they’re quick to run out of stock. Because the Prime Day sales event features many of these deals, keeping up with them all is difficult. Thankfully, ZDNET will ensure you can access the top Fire TV deals around Prime Day. Also: The best Prime Day deals still liveBest Fire TV deals for Prime Day 2024 still availableAmazon Fire TV Stick More

Oscar Wong/Getty Images Singapore has mandated the use of facial recognition as authentication for “higher risk” banking transactions, in a bid to stem growing scams in the country.  Retail banks will roll out Singpass Face Verification over the next three months to beef up the setup process for digital tokens, according to a joint statement […] More

SentinelOne on Tuesday published its third quarter financial results, beating market estimates thanks to solid growth in customers with an annualized recurring revenue (ARR) over $100,000. The autonomous cybersecurity company’s total Q3 revenue was $56 million, a 128% increase over a year prior. Non-GAAP net loss per share came to 15 cents. ARR for Q3 was $237 million, a 131% year-over-year increase. Analysts were expecting a loss per share of 18 cents on revenue of $49.58 million. Shares fell in after-hours trading by more than 10%.The company did not provide specific numbers of total customers, but it said it grew more than 75% year-over-year to over 6,000 customers. Customers with ARR over $100,000 grew 140% year-over-year to 416.For the fourth quarter, the company expects total revenue in the range of $60 million to $61 million. For the full fiscal year, the company expects $199 million to $200 million.”Our business is performing extremely well. Q3 marks the third consecutive quarter of triple digit ARR growth,” said Tomer Weingarten, CEO of SentinelOne. “We continued to make progress across all aspects of our growth strategy outlined during the IPO.”

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NSO Group, a seller of controversial surveillance software to governments worldwide, is due to be hosted by the UK government at a trade fair that has been visited by officials from repressive regimes in the past.  The British government will host the vendor at the secretive three-day event, in which foreign delegates from roughly 60 […] More

Application security pioneer F5 Networks this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and profit that topped analysts’ expectations, and forecast this quarter’s revenue higher, but profit a bit below, sending its shares sharply lower in late trading.
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $625 million, yielding EPS of $2.59. 
Analysts had been modeling $623 million and $2.45 per share. 
Also: F5 to acquire multi-cloud security software maker Volterra for $500 million, raises financial outlook 
The results compare to a raised forecast for $623 million to $626 million in revenue offered two weeks ago, when the company announced it would acquire privately held, Volterra of Santa Clara, California, a maker of distributed multi-cloud application security and load-balancing software.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue in a range of $625 million to $645 million, higher than the consensus for $621 million; and EPS in a range of $2.32 to $2.44, slightly below consensus for $2.41. 
F5 shares are down about 3% at $203 in after-hours trading and had initially dropped as much as 6%.

Also: F5 Networks tops third quarter earnings targets

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