CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Africas IT landscape is experiencing accelerated digital transformation due to a young, tech-savvy population, aboost in thegross domestic product (GDP), and anincrease in demand for low-latency connectivity. This has fast-tracked infrastructure projects to upgrade or create energy systems in less developed countries in the SADC trade bloc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Crusoe Energy Systems , $500M, energy: This is not the first time Crusoe has made this list. In 2020, Insight Partners bought a large stake in the startup. Founded in 2020, the company has raised nearly $130 million, per Crunchbase. Founded in 2020, the company has raised $268 million, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them. Dash’s alternative payment network brings together this mobile money and traditional banks and facilitates transactions for consumers and businesses.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

That’s why Tier wants to build energy networks in European cities. That battery network is reminiscent of Gogoro’s network of charging stations in Taiwan. Instead of bringing costs down by relying on underpaid freelancing partners, the company tries to optimize its processes and relies on a centralized system.

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Kaseya

APRIL 15, 2020

Just like the coronavirus spreads from person to person, cybersecurity malware too can spread rapidly from computer to computer and network to network. Here are the top 10 cybersecurity threats businesses face in 2020: Phishing Attacks. Remote Worker Endpoint Security. Cloud Jacking. IoT Devices. trillion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

As Vercel notes, the company saw strong growth in recent months, with traffic to all sites and apps on its network doubling since October 2020. “So instead of just spending all your time in code review, we’re shifting the equation to spending your time reviewing or experiencing your front end.

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Tenable

JUNE 29, 2020

On June 29, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory for a critical vulnerability in PAN-OS. PAN-OS is the custom operating system (OS) that Palo Alto Networks (PAN) uses in their next-generation firewalls. by Palo Alto Networks. According to their advisory, the flaw exists due to “improper verification of signatures.”

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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Firemon

MAY 30, 2020

There are a lot of theories about which network security challenge is the most important at any given time. But in the end, what matters is that organizations properly align and continuously adjust their activities so they can mitigate or even prevent the most prevalent threats to network security. 5 Key Challenges in Network Security.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. A robust market. million by 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Gathering more customer reviews data directly from consumers has been the first part of the puzzle with its product that helps brands manage and showcase customer ratings, reviews, user-generated media and product questions. “Most D2C brands are still very dependent on big tech,” CEO Matthew Goodman tells TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. It is usually not given all at once due to what I consider to be a lack of trust. There is no science to it; leverage your network and reach out to people over LinkedIn, too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

It does so by using what the company calls its “SideScanning” technology, which allows it to map out a company’s entire cloud environment and file systems. Last year, Palo Alto Networks sent Orca Security a sternly worded letter ( PDF ) to stop it from comparing the two services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Investors in Preply include Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital and Evli Growth Partners. One year later, there have been more than 10 million lessons booked on the platform, and the tutor network has grown to 40,000 people across 190 countries. Fluent Forever raised $4.9

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

When R-Zero was founded in April 2020, the company primarily focused on developing hospital-grade UVC disinfection systems, or lights that can neutralize certain types of viruses (more on this later). Polling from 2020 suggests that cleaning procedures were top of mind for employees and customers alike. million valuation.

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Tenable

APRIL 14, 2020

Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday includes 113 CVEs, including a patch for two zero-day flaws (CVE-2020-0938 and CVE-2020-1020) in Adobe Type Manager Library disclosed on March 23. CVE-2020-1020 and CVE-2020-0938 | Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This means that BluePallet’s network of chemical manufacturers and distributors will be exposed to millions of business buyers from around the world who source supply on the e-commerce site. BluePallet was founded in 2020 through the merger of then three-year-old chemical marketplace EchoSystem and Velloci, a fintech company.

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Tenable

JUNE 9, 2020

For the fourth month in a row, Microsoft has patched over 100 CVEs, addressing 129 in the June 2020 Patch Tuesday release. CVE-2020-1226 and CVE-2020-1225 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. CVE-2020-1226 and CVE-2020-1225 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Soci provides customers marketing-focused workflows, a permissioning system, approval processes and analytics and management tools that integrate with popular ad networks. Beyond this, it delivers a database for consolidating marketing info including data from search, social media, reviews, surveys and chatbots.

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Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2020

Continuous network monitoring is essential to make sure all your IT networks and systems maintain a high level of uptime. Endpoint management and network monitoring tools can monitor both agent-based and agentless (e.g. SNMP) devices on the network. As companies grow, so does the number of endpoints on the network.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 8, 2020

.’ Datavail has extensive experience assisting its customers in managing database challenges over the years and now posed by 2020. Database Failure = System and Business Failure. Datavail’s experts reviewed the new client’s position and proposed a two-part strategy to: 1. within the (now two-week) timeframe, 3.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019. 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. So how are they doing? billion into Israeli companies.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Microsoft patched 112 CVEs in the November 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 17 CVEs rated as critical. CVE-2020-17087 | Windows Kernel Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. CVE-2020-17087 was used to escape Google Chrome’s sandbox in order to elevate privileges on the exploited system.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 13, 2020

” 2020 will also see the end of support for Python 2.7 , which will likely cause its share of headaches among holdouts. In response, there was a small change to the syntax of switch expressions, which was possible due to it being a preview feature and not set in stone, in Java 13.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

The resulting system could be the biggest improvement to stroke therapy in decades or more. Strokes can result in various obvious impairments, such as grip strength or coordination, but of course the injury is not to the hand or leg itself, it is to the networks in the brain that govern those parts.

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Tenable

APRIL 12, 2024

A critical severity command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS has been exploited in limited targeted attacks. Palo Alto Networks reports limited exploitation in the wild According to the advisory, Palo Alto Networks confirmed that this vulnerability has been exploited in-the-wild in a “limited number of attacks.”

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Tenable

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The final Patch Tuesday of 2020 includes fixes for 58 CVEs, including workaround details for a severe vulnerability in Windows DNS Resolver called SAD DNS. Microsoft patched 58 CVEs in the December 2020 Patch Tuesday release, including 9 CVEs rated as critical. CVE-2020-25705 | Windows DNS Resolver Spoofing Vulnerability.

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Tenable

MAY 3, 2020

Salt utilizes a “master” server that controls agents known as “minions" that collect data for the system and carries out tasks. CVE-2020-11651 is an authentication bypass in two methods of the ClearFuncs class. CVE-2020-11652 is a directory traversal security flaw in the “wheel” module that is used to read and write files.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. A McKinsey and Co.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft addresses a staggering 99 CVEs in the February 2020 Patch Tuesday release. CVE-2020-0673 and CVE-2020-0674 | Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability. CVE-2020-0674 was first noted as being exploited in the wild in January , where Microsoft released an out-of-band advisory ( ADV200001 ).

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Tenable

MARCH 6, 2020

The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a full-duplex protocol that enables the encapsulation and transmission of basic data across Layer 2 or data-link services ranging from dial-up connections to DSL broadband to virtual private networks (VPNs) implementing SSL encryption. RHSA-2020:0631. RHSA-2020:0630. RHSA-2020:0634.

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered healthcare in 2020. Clinics that use cutting-edge technology will continue to thrive as intelligent systems evolve. Because of the present network bandwidth, doctors must wait for hours to send massive imaging data to specialists.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. To date, the app’s community of users have reduced nearly 6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. Hence, JavaScript will remain one of the hottest tech skills in 2020 and it is unlikely that it will go off the grid in the near future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2020, hackers stole about $120 million from DeFi protocols in 15 separate attacks. Polygon, which connects Ethereum blockchain networks, paid out $2,000,000 via Immunefi to a white-hat hacker who discovered a vulnerability that had put approximately $850 million of capital at risk. And the stakes are high. billion this year.

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