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4 Industrial Stocks Worth Watching in 2023

March 21, 2023
The industrial sector remains stable despite the macroeconomic issues due to steady demand. Moreover, lucrative federal investments are boosting the industry. Therefore, fundamentally strong industrial stocks General Electric (GE), Ryder…

OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3

March 21, 2023

OP3N, a web3 AI-powered platform, raised a $28 million Series A round that values the company at $100 million, the startup shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “I wanted to make a connection for creators, chats and commerce in one place,” Jaeson Ma, co-CEO of OP3N, said to TechCrunch. “It’s a web3 version of WhatsApp meets Amazon, […]

OP3N raises $28M to build ‘WhatsApp meets Amazon’ for web3 by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Consumers are splurging on premium smartphones amid tough economic conditions, report says

March 21, 2023

Amid the declining smartphone market, premium devices are having their moment. These pricy devices made up more than half of the worldwide smartphone market’s revenue, according to a report from Counterpoint. The analytics company’s report says that premium devices (with a wholesale value of $600 or more) grew by 1% year-on-year in terms of shipment […]

Consumers are splurging on premium smartphones amid tough economic conditions, report says by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Ferrari says ransomware attack exposed customers’ personal data

March 21, 2023

Italian supercar manufacturer Ferrari has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack that exposed customers’ personal information. “We regret to inform you of a cyber incident at Ferrari, where a threat actor was able to access a limited number of systems in our IT environment,” Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna said in a letter sent to […]

Ferrari says ransomware attack exposed customers’ personal data by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform

March 21, 2023

Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey from Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performance. In light of that, unsurprisingly, business has been quite healthy […]

Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany

March 21, 2023

In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes political microtargeting on Facebook, to build a case against every political party in Germany — for what it alleges is unlawful processing of voters’ personal […]

Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable

March 21, 2023

French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Backed by eFounders, the company takes care of the administrative, legal and financial processes involved with startup […]

Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch