Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Munich-based parcelLab, which helps retailers send automated personalized shipping messages to their customers, raises $112M Series C led by Insight Partners — Munich-based parcelLab, which offers a final-mile fulfillment service for online retailers, has closed a $112 million …
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Munich-based parcelLab, which helps retailers send automated personalized shipping messages to their customers, raises $112M Series C led by Insight Partners (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Google starts rolling out Dark mode for Search on desktop
WhatsApp responds: Zoom, Aarogya Setu, Truecaller and these apps also collect same or more data
Why Apple employees are ‘unhappy’ over the hiring of an ex-Facebook manager
NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021 (Neal St. Anthony/Star Tribune)
Neal St. Anthony / Star Tribune:
NetSPI, which provides penetration testing and vulnerability management services to enterprises, raises $90M; NetSPI expects sales of about $50M in 2021 — It's the second large round of outside investment raised by NetSPI, a provider of cyber security services and tests for businesses and institutions.
Apple says it has parted ways with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee backlash over sexist writings of his (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios:
Apple says it has parted ways with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and author, after employee backlash over sexist writings of his — Apple has severed ties with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Facebook employee and author of the book Chaos Monkeys …
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and no new deployments are being supported as of May 10 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and no new deployments are being supported as of May 10 — Six years after its initial launch, Microsoft's Azure Blockhain as a Service is going to be shut down this September.
Amazon wins $303 million tax case
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Biden signs EO to strengthen US cyber defenses, including the development of cybersecurity standards for software companies that sell to the government — President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at shoring up the federal government's digital defenses as his administration grapples …
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets (Todd Feathers/The Markup)
Todd Feathers / The Markup:
A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets — Several years ago, as the U.S. Census Bureau began to prepare for its 2020 count, it was confronted with an existential problem.
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $70M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Arkose Labs, a startup developing a platform to detect and mitigate online fraud …
Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Cycode, which focuses on helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $24.6M — Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering …
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Researcher discovers a series of vulnerabilities, known as Frag Attacks, impacting Wi-Fi devices from the past 24 years, even when WEP and WPA are activated — A Belgian security researcher has discovered a series of vulnerabilities that impact the WiFi standard, with some bugs dating …
EA signals gaming boom extending run with upbeat annual forecast
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC : China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid ...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
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Top fintech companies are rushing to tap into this new consumer trend, with several of them offering digital solutions to small merchants. h...