Memo: Tiger Global's John Curtius, who backed 250+ startups in five years, is leaving in June 2023; a source says Curtius plans to launch his own firm — John Curtius is departing Tiger Global as the prolific investment firm continues to mark down its holdings in private tech companies.
University of Illinois, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project, aiming to improve voice recognition for disabled users — The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project.
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom — The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups — A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.
Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others — In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types.
Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years — - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
