March 2023

Companies moved en masse to the cloud during the pandemic, under pressure to digitally transform. According to a 2021 survey from O’Reilly, cloud adoption steadily rose across industries, with 90% of organizations using cloud computing compared to 88% in 2020. The accelerated cloud adoption led to a rise in security issues. In a recent poll […]

Cloud security vendor Mitiga lands $45M, valuing the company at over $100M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The No. 1 question people ask as they learn about a new tool is: “What problem is this company trying to solve?”

Time to trust: Questions cybersecurity customers ask and how to answer them by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

India’s Enforcement Directorate is investigating “several” crypto cases for money-laundering schemes and has seized $115.5 million to date in such crimes, the Ministry of Finance said, the latest in a series of crackdown by the authorities on the nascent space that is already reeling from the tremulous market conditions. The Indian crime fighting agency has […]

India probing ‘several’ crypto cases for money laundering, seizes over $115 million by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Nigerian credit-led digital banking platform FairMoney has acquired PayForce (sub-brand of YC-backed CrowdForce), a merchant payment services that serves small businesses, as the digital lender looks to broaden its financial services proposition to merchants. Both startups declined to disclose the terms of the deal. However, according to sources, the transaction was a cash-and-stock deal in […]

Nigerian credit-led fintech FairMoney acquires PayForce in retail-merchant banking play by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount of getting-things-made is managed through Excel spreadsheets. The thing is, spreadsheets are great for many things, but for manufacturing, and especially on the people-management front, there simply has to be a better way, AG5 […]

AG5 throws a lifeline to a manufacturing industry drowning in spreadsheets by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch