TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. The news comes as another South Korean internet giant, Naver, completes its acquisition of Wattpad , in a deal that also focuses on intellectual property and geographic expansion. from SoftBank and Kakao.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things has a security problem. The past decade has seen wave after wave of new internet-connected devices, from sensors through to webcams and smart home tech, often manufactured in bulk but with little — if any — consideration to security.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Founded in 2016, Linktree now competes with a roster of “link in bio” services, including Shorby, Linkin.bio and the recently launched Beacons. “We might have started as a link-in-bio tool, but over time Linktree has evolved and the platform has become a social identity layer of the internet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360 , a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, bringing the total investment raised in the round to $7 million. The company said its internet calling app has connected 2.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Talk360, a leading Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) player in Africa, enables people to make international calls through its app for a fee, and it is built in such a way that only the initiator needs the app and internet – a smartphone– to make calls. “In

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We’ve written about these apps at length , and while many of them continue to interest their niche users, the fact that since 2016, more than 1 billion people using WhatsApp are texting and calling one another in end-to-end encrypted conversations is nothing short of remarkable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But the country’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has seen very few exits and many consumer internet startups that listed in the past two years are trading significantly below their listing prices. You had a great legacy of last 17-18 years of materially profitable internet companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia Founded in 2016, Qotto designs and distributes stand-alone solar kits and lanterns to individuals residing in the least electrified regions of Africa. The internet hotspots will be located in high-foot traffic areas like the shops, restaurants or bars. “In

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The Parallax

JUNE 13, 2018

And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble. DDoS attacks have been around since the Stone Age of the Internet: The first recorded denial-of-service attack dates back to 1974.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people—but that comes at cost. million USD), including a 2 million euros round in 2016 from angel investors for a pilot line, and 2.4 A bat-shaped organic photovoltaic module from Dracula Technologies. million euros (about $5.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company generated a lot of hype after it announced in 2016 that it had developed a lidar that cost $250 or less (for reference, around the same time Velodyne was selling a lidar sensor for $75,000). Quanergy says it has more than 350 customers and 40 partnerships globally, across both the automotive and internet of things sectors.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Deftly sliding from desktop browsers to mobile devices to smart TVs and other Internet of Things devices, ad fraud is a multibillion-dollar business problem that has been running rampant across the Internet for years. In a 2016 analysis, Hewlett Packard Enterprise identified it as the most lucrative form of cybercrime.

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Tenable

JANUARY 20, 2020

Zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been observed in attacks. On January 17, Microsoft released an out-of-band advisory (ADV200001) for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) in Internet Explorer that has been exploited in the wild. Background.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Zego has now raised more than $200 million since launching in 2016. We are excited to partner with Sten and the team at Zego as they leverage internet, technology, telematics and data-driven decisions to provide the best insurance products at the best pricing for their customers.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Wallapop has confirmed that the funding is coming at a valuation of €690 million ($840 million) — a significant jump on the $570 million valuations sources close to the company gave us in 2016. By 2016, Wallapop was merging with a rival, LetGo , as part of a bigger strategy to crack the U.S. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company which secured around $30 million in total with its last priced round (Series E) in January 2016, plans to raise less or a similar amount when going public in 2022. Within that time, the only internet company to have gone public is Jumia , and it did so after seven years. But it’s quite different with IROKO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds. Lawtrades app design.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Abundant Robotics (2016-2021). Two-plus years after spinning off the X graduate, the company grounded the project aimed at bringing internet connectivity to underserved areas via balloon. Total raised: $12 million. Image Credits: Abundant. This is a major sputtering in what has been an otherwise remarkable year for robotic startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . Its main products include digital door locks and wall pads that connect to users’ smartphones.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

billion in Q2, the lowest quarterly tally since 2016. Historically, falling bandwidth and smartphone costs along with improved Internet reliability helped lay the foundation for the recent Indian startup wave, according to Swaroop. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Last summer we teamed up with the New York Times to analyze the re-routing of internet service to Kherson, a region in southern Ukraine that was, at the time, under Russian occupation. In my accompanying blog post , I described how that development mirrored what took place following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. rev# Date Op.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. “And From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And in newer models, it likely connects to the Internet too. The Keen squad of the Chinese tech giant Tencent hacked into Tesla’s Model X in both 2016 and 2017 , and hackers exposed car infotainment systems for leaking personal car owner data in November. READ MORE ON THE INTERNET OF THINGS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. The startup’s go-to-market strategy surprisingly relies less on the internet than one might expect. Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 2, 2018

As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. Yet this explosion of internet sites and the network protocols and APIs connecting them ended up creating the need for more programmers. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Founded in 2016 by a group of PhDs from the University of Tokyo and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, VisionNav’s valuation was boosted to over $500 million in this round, up from $393 million just six months ago when it picked up 300 million yuan ($47 million) in a Series C financing, it told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

It’s also emerged as something of a consolidator in the space: In 2016, SumUp acquired one of its bigger competitors , the Rocket Internet-backed Payleven, which helped expand its footprint to a wider set of markets. PayPal confirms that it is buying payments startup iZettle for $2.2B in an all-cash deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

One-to-one computing refers to academic institutions like schools and colleges, which allow all enrolled students to use electronic devices to access the internet, digital course materials, and digital textbooks. The advent of the startup, however, goes back to 2013, as Australian entrepreneur Dr.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

But everything that happens before you send the video feed over the internet could be improved. Human was acquired by Mapbox in 2016. The future of photography is code. Detail founder Paul Veugen rightly points out that hosting a live video has become a commodity. Detail raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Connect Ventures.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The lower tactical Internet architecture is concerned about size, weight and power (SWaP) issues and future versions will reduce the weight the soldier must carry. They utilize soldier radio waveform (SRW) to provide company and below voice and data communications.

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A List Apart

MAY 15, 2018

— Airbnb Help (@AirbnbHelp) July 12, 2016. Of far more significance is the increasingly gaping chasm between Internet Explorer and every other major browser. Internet Explorer, meanwhile, has been all but abandoned by Microsoft, which is attempting to push Windows users toward Edge. Hi Rustram. The widening gulf.

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The Parallax

MAY 10, 2018

It’s been in the works since 2012, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers standards organization decided to create more top-level domains , or TLDs, as the suffixes are known. HTTPS is important because it keeps our users’ content private and secure,” she says.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In their pursuit of patient data, cybercriminals often reach for the lowest-hanging bunches of fruit, which often are the least secured legacy Windows computers, as well as Internet-connected devices collectively known as the Internet of Things. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company was founded in 2016 originally with the idea of being an IoT security company, and while they still are involved in securing these devices, their ability to communicate with them gives IT much greater visibility and insight and the ability to update and manage them.

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