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Albedo closes $35M at boosted valuation to build satellites that orbit very, very close to Earth

January 23, 2024

Satellite startup Albedo aims to provide commercial orbital imagery so detailed that the military kept its own version under wraps — until it was leaked a few years ago by Donald Trump. In 2019, then-President Trump tweeted a detailed image of a heavily damaged Iranian launch pad captured by a classified military satellite. The image, […]

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Blueshift, a marketing automation startup, raises $40M in debt

January 23, 2024

Blueshift, a San Francisco-based startup that taps AI to help brands automate and personalize engagement across different marketing channels, has secured $40 million in debt financing from Runway Growth Capital. Co-founder and CEO Vijay Chittoor said that the loan will be used to refinance Blueshift’s existing debt as well as expand sales and marketing and […]

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Silverfort now valued at $1B after raising $116M for its holistic approach to identity security

January 23, 2024

Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes to identity security in an organization. When it comes to potential breaches, people, machines, clouds, legacy and new apps can all be targets, and they can be exploited at any of the many points where they interact with each other. So the best way […]

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‘De-Googled’ smartphone company Murena launches own-brand mobile network

January 23, 2024

Murena, a French startup that sells “de-Googled” smartphones replete with its own flavor of Android, is launching an own-brand mobile network as it throws its hat into the fast-growing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) ring. Murena Mobile, as the new service is called, is built atop T-Mobile and is available to U.S. customers only. Available […]

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French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers

January 23, 2024

France’s data privacy watchdog, the CNIL, has fined Amazon’s logistics subsidiary in France €32 million, or $35 million at today’s exchange rate. The CNIL says that Amazon France Logistique has implemented a “surveillance system” that is “overly intrusive.” In particular, the CNIL is focusing on the warehouse barcode scanner and Amazon’s data gathering practices related […]

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Buy, Sell, or Hold These 3 Homebuilder Stocks?

January 23, 2024
The homebuilding industry is poised for substantial expansion, propelled by robust demand for housing properties. Given this backdrop, let’s assess the prospects of homebuilder stocks D.R. Horton (DHI), Hovnanian Enterprises…

How African startups raised funding in 2023

January 23, 2024

After defying the global funding slowdown of 2022, VC investments in African startups dropped considerably last year, mirroring the situation in other regions where capital taps were significantly turned off. The drop, however, was not unexpected as deals had become infrequent, and investors began to pull away in the months preceding the year. Data trackers […]

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The Ins and Outs of Final Salary Pensions

January 23, 2024
How do you envision your golden years? For many, it means traveling or just relaxing on sun-kissed beaches, free of the daily grind. Financial security, however, is crucial to a…

Sequoia backs Coana to help companies prioritise vulnerabilities using ‘code aware’ software analysi

January 23, 2024

Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) juggernaut Sequoia is backing a fledgling Danish startup to build a next-gen software composition analysis (SCA) tool, one that promises to help companies filter through the noise and identify vulnerabilities that are a genuine threat. For context, most software contains at least some open source components, many of which are […]

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