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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware

TechCrunch

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag coined the term “zero trust” in 2010 because, at the time, the concept of trustworthy internal networks and untrusted external networks was seen as flawed. Whether you’re downloading files or simply browsing, it can be a very useful bit of software. Zero Trust.

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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

TechCrunch

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company launched in 2010 and has raised more than $38 million, per Crunchbase. The new tool is available for customers at no additional cost, says Jalan.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. The boom caught the eye of hardware makers like Vivo, which partnered up with Cocos to make its equivalent of mini games.

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iRobot launches a $1,399 premium Roomba combo vacuum/mop and dock

TechCrunch

The first Scooba system became widely available in 2010. Like many of us, iRobot has a long-standing love-hate relationship with the mop. Ultimately, however, mopping up and filling a tank with dirty water proved inefficient, and the line was eventually phased out.

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The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Fleetio And Mercury Nab Massive Rounds

Crunchbase News

The Santa Clara, California-based startup builds custom networking solutions for the hyperscalers, including networking hardware designed to each customers specifications and a choice of a network operating system with the companys own AI. Lightspeed Venture Partners has been busy the past month-plus.

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Deliverect gobbles up $65M for a platform that streamlines online and offline food orders

TechCrunch

But they also discovered something less appetizing: dealing with the mess of apps and hardware that they need to use to manage orders from their various services is a nightmare, worse than a deflated soufflé or a botched Beef Wellington. For some further context on valuation, Toast , a company that provides similar SaaS out of the U.S.,