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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

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Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. Zeekit raised a $9 million Series A in 2016, and has raised a total of $16 million since 2014. Image Credits: Walmart.

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Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards

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When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. million Series A last July, Privacy.com said it had issued 5 million virtual card numbers. Privacy.com, a virtual payment card startup, raises $10.2M At the time of its $10.2

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

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A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

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Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs

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Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., is probably best known to consumers for its beauty app, YouCam Makeup, which lets users “try on” virtual samples from over 300 global brands, including ones owned by beauty conglomerates Estée Lauder and L’Oreal Paris.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

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A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

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In total, the company has raised about $16 million since the company was founded in 2014, Bart Myers, CEO of Countable, told TechCrunch. Existing investor Canaan Partners led the round and was joined by Ulysses Management and Global Catalyst Partners.

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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and BlueYard

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Vectary was founded in 2014 by Michal Koor (CEO) and Pavol Sovis (CTO), who were both from the design and technology worlds. Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5 Osso VR raises $14 million to bring virtual reality to surgical and medical device training. Google wakes up from its VR daydream.

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