Facebook hires Roy L. Austin, Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney and advocate, to establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook (Jessica Guynn/USA Today)
Facebook hires Roy L. Austin, Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney and advocate, to establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook — Civil rights attorney Roy L. Austin, Jr.,…
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Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 (Eileen Brown/ZDNet)
Trend Micro: 32% of 500 IT leaders believe AI will replace all cybersecurity roles by 2030; 19% say attackers using AI will be commonplace by 2025 — In 2021 Trend…
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Gtmhub, which builds software to help companies manage their corporate planning, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Partners (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
Gtmhub, which builds software to help companies manage their corporate planning, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Partners — This morning Gtmhub, a multinational startup that builds software to…
Read more » LG Electronics takes a majority stake in Alphonso, a data and ad targeting company for smart TVs; sources say LG invested almost $80M for a nearly 60% stake (Sahil Patel/Wall Street Journal)
LG Electronics takes a majority stake in Alphonso, a data and ad targeting company for smart TVs; sources say LG invested almost $80M for a nearly 60% stake — The…
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Berlin-based Mambu, which offers a SaaS platform providing banking services via APIs, raises €100M led by TCV, at a post-money valuation of €1.7B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Berlin-based Mambu, which offers a SaaS platform providing banking services via APIs, raises €100M led by TCV, at a post-money valuation of €1.7B — Challenger banks, incumbent banks, and all…
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UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single “general warrant” (Emma Woollacott/Forbes)
UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single “general warrant” — After five years of legal wrangling, the…
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Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille
While much of what made 2020 such an absolute nightmare will still be with us on January 1 (sorry!), we will really, truly be leaving Adobe Flash and FarmVille behind as we…
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Netflix and Prime Video are reshaping India’s creative landscape amid threats of censorship; Netflix invested $400M in original content in India in 2019 (Hannah Ellis-Petersen/The Guardian)
Netflix and Prime Video are reshaping India’s creative landscape amid threats of censorship; Netflix invested $400M in original content in India in 2019 — The streaming giants are making bold…
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Globality, whose AI-based sourcing software connects companies with service providers, raises $138M Series E from Sienna Capital and SoftBank’s Vision Fund (Cromwell Schubarth/Silicon Valley …)
Globality, whose AI-based sourcing software connects companies with service providers, raises $138M Series E from Sienna Capital and SoftBank’s Vision Fund — Service marketplace provider Globality Inc. on Tuesday said…
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UK-based Bloom & Wild, an online florist that delivers flowers sourced directly from growers, raises $102M Series D led by General Catalyst for expansion in EU (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
UK-based Bloom & Wild, an online florist that delivers flowers sourced directly from growers, raises $102M Series D led by General Catalyst for expansion in EU — Bloom & Wild,…
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