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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak got on the mic Our deals of the week included a look at a large new fund focused on Africa, a startup raising big bucks to address […]

Wait a secondary by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Cooper Quintin has been tracking the activities of a cyber mercenary group called Dark Caracal for years. On July 28, 2022, he said he discovered traces of a new ongoing hacking campaign by the group in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. While he was analyzing the domains that the hackers were using as command and […]

Digital rights defenders infiltrate alleged mercenary hacking group by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

Being scrappy and frugal are great qualities to have as a startup, but your investors will want to see that you know how to scale rapidly when necessary.

For startups, ‘we haven’t spent a penny on marketing’ isn’t always a good thing by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Taiwanese authorities have fined car rental and ride sharing giant iRent after TechCrunch revealed the company was spilling customers’ data and identity documents onto the open web for months. According to local media reports, iRent, which is owned by Taiwanese auto conglomerate Hotai Motor, received two separate fines for failing to adequately protect the data […]

Taiwan fines car renting giant iRent for customer data spill by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch