After a delay, Facebook says it is starting a brand safety audit by industry body MRC, set to complete by the end of 2021; Twitter has started the audit process — Pressure from President Joe Biden, regulators and advertisers is building on tech platforms to do more to mitigate extremist, violent and illegal content on their sites.
Sophos researchers say Discord's own CDN is becoming an increasingly popular malware distribution channel, with much of the malware focused on data theft — Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s — Sophos on Thursday warned that internet instant …
Tailor Brands, a SaaS platform to automate branding and marketing for SMBs, raises $50M Series C led by GoDaddy, bringing its total raised to $70M — Tailor Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.
Visa buys Currencycloud, which sells software for banks and fintech companies to process cross-border payments, in a deal valuing the UK startup at £700M — - Visa is buying Currencycloud in a deal valuing the British payments start-up at £700 million.
Profile of the NSO Group, which has been hailed as an Israeli version of a Silicon Valley success story, as its founders defend their spyware operations — HERZLIYA, Israel — It was a proposition that would change everything. — Two 20-something Israeli entrepreneurs who had been running …
Filing: Kakao Bank, South Korea's largest internet-only bank, plans to raise $2.2B in its IPO, sets its shares at ~$34 each at a valuation as high as ~$16B — SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean digital bank Kakao Bank Corp will raise $2.2 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), the company said in a filing on Thursday.
Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...
