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Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new stalkerware operation

December 17, 2022

A year after it was banned by the Federal Trade Commission, a notorious phone surveillance company is back in all but name, a TechCrunch investigation has found. A groundbreaking FTC order in 2021 banned the stalkerware app SpyFone, its parent company Support King, and its chief executive Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance industry. The order, […]

Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new stalkerware operation by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ is the second most popular English-language series, with 1.02B hours viewed

December 17, 2022

The latest hit Netflix series “Wednesday,” the “Addams Family” spin-off directed by Tim Burton, has reached a milestone that only “Stranger Things” Season 4 and “Squid Game” managed to accomplish. “Wednesday” surpassed 1.02 billion total hours viewed in just three weeks since its debut, the company announced, with over 150 million households streaming the show. […]

Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ is the second most popular English-language series, with 1.02B hours viewed by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

The most active global VC firm on deal terms, fatality rates, and the drawbacks of credit lines

December 17, 2022

Yesterday, we had the chance to catch up with Fabrice Grinda, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the free classifieds site OLX — now owned by Prosus — and who has in recent years been building up his venture firm, FJ Labs. He often likens the outfit to an angel investor “at scale,” saying that like […]

The most active global VC firm on deal terms, fatality rates, and the drawbacks of credit lines by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch