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The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
How Seedcamp’s networked approach to Europe helped it secure new $180M fund
European early-stage investor Seedcamp has announced the $180M close of its “Fund VI”. It’s a long way from a London university lecture hall 15 years ago in September, when Founding Partner and co-CEO Reshma Sohoni stood up and introduced the first Seedcamp cohort (Incidentally, this was the same day TechCrunch launched in Europe, and my first day […]
How Seedcamp’s networked approach to Europe helped it secure new $180M fund by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife
Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. The company, which started in Singapore but now has operations around the world, said it is now valued at $1.6 billion. The funding was led by Tokio Marine, Japan’s first insurance company, and life insurance leader MetLife through its subsidiary […]
Insurtech bolttech gets $196M at $1.6B valuation from investors like MetLife by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
France’s privacy watchdog eyes protection against data-scraping in AI action plan
France’s privacy watchdog, the CNIL, has published an action plan for artificial intelligence which gives a snapshot of where it will be focusing its attention, including on generative AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, in the coming months and beyond. A dedicated Artificial Intelligence Service has been set up within the CNIL to work on scoping […]
France’s privacy watchdog eyes protection against data-scraping in AI action plan by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Freedom of Money – How Will You Spend Your Freedom
How would you love to celebrate your financial freedom when you have finally achieved it? Well, we all dream of cherishing this privilege, but few achieve it. So, your efforts…
The WORST Stock Market Ever- Part 2
The S&P 500 (SPY) seems to be going nowhere. But that does not mean there is nothing happening. Nor does it mean there is not money to be made in…
Entro raises $6M to for its end-to-end secrets security solution
Entro, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a security platform that helps enterprises manage and protect their secrets like account credentials, certificates and API keys, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures. A number of angel investors, including Trusteer and Transmit Security founders […]
Entro raises $6M to for its end-to-end secrets security solution by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Inside Tencent’s weirdly secretive customer service center
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. It’s been a while. I just got back from several weeks in China. It was my first visit since the pandemic, and I noticed some changes: half the cars running on the streets of Shanghai…
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems to secure buildings and other physical spaces — are doubling down on their businesses… quite literally. The pair of U.S. companies — majority owned by the same individual, security entrepreneur Dean Drako — […]
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Google pushes ahead with in-app billing policy in India, insists watchdog compliance
Google said on Wednesday that its Google Play’s payments policy is compliant with the Indian watchdog’s order and it is moving ahead with plans to enforce the policy in the South Asian market, weeks after some developers sought to suspend Google’s in-app billing fee system alleging it was not compliant with the watchdog’s directive. “In […]
Google pushes ahead with in-app billing policy in India, insists watchdog compliance by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch