TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Signal AI , an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make better business decisions, has raised $50 million. “We’ve been diversifying the data that we inject in the platform,” he added.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fund IV has already backed Vietnamese digital bank Timo; Singapore back office operating system Sleek; Indian D2C consumer electronics brand Atomberg; Web3.0-based based social-crypo-community platform for women Eveworld; and inFeedo, an employee retention SaaS platform. . “If

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

After a flurry of local reports exposing the firm’s massive debt, which is reported to be as high as $520 million , a district court in Shanghai placed Ziwutong Beijing Asset Management, the parent organization behind Danke, on the country’s “social credit” blacklist. when it went public in January.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But NayaPay’s goal is even bigger; to bank millions of adults that remain unbanked, with women affected the most — only one in three women holds a bank account. The youth and freelance communities in Pakistan are also majorly locked out by traditional banks. We are very bullish on fintech in Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The thesis behind the startup, said Jain in an interview with TechCrunch, is to provide financial literacy to teenagers, who additionally have limited options to open a bank account in India at a young age. Teens represent the “most tech-savvy generation, as they haven’t seen a world without the internet,” he said. Unlike in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Founders : Before beU delivery, Hao Zheng, who leads the team as chief executive, was the founder and CEO of Yooul, a social networking app in China. Abdigani Diriye, Khalid Keenan and Youcef Oudjidane, the other co-founders, have combined experience across engineering, investment banking and venture capital. Website : [link].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. .”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Today, we are more or less at a similar stage in its development lifecycle as we were in the early 1990s for the internet. Social media platforms are awash with aggression, bullying, harassment and exploitation. In the multidimensional world of the metaverse, this will become exponentially more difficult. How can I authenticate users?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Bank transfers are also popular option for online purchases, but involve several steps, which increases the risk of cart abandonment. For example, he added that some regions have poor internet connectivity, so customers may drop out of the checkout process if it involves clicking multiple webpages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Names like Bikayi (e-commerce tools), Decentro (consumer banking APIs), Farmako Healthcare (digital health records) and MedPiper Technologies (helping hire health professionals) joined our list of favorites from the batch. Well, according to a survey of Gen Z VCs , their top three focuses are the creator economy, edtech and social gaming.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The fundraise six months ago ensured that the startup had enough capital in the bank to operate comfortably, he said. He said that like other businesses, Chargebee has been cautiously navigating the global pandemic. But the recent growth Chargebee has seen prompted the startup to grow more aggressive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Lamine Zarrad started StellarFi in 2021 after selling another fintech company he’d started, banking app Joust, to ZenBusiness in 2020. StellarFi was set to close on $5 million in venture debt from Signature Bank for runway extension — a deal that fell through once that institution was forced to shutter earlier this month.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. The startup says it offers industry-based invoicing and bookkeeping with integrated banking and payments. An average Indian makes about $2,100 a year, according to the World Bank.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Payments for consumers have made a huge shift to the online world in the last year, a time when they have moved more of their purchasing to the internet to minimize in-person transactions in the midst of a virus-based health pandemic. Most are bank transfers. It takes a 2.9% “We have developed models to do it same day.

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The Parallax

JULY 27, 2018

Twenty years later, when online services dominate digital social interaction and employment services, and email addresses have become as recognizable as our faces, targets of online stalking and harassment face a far more complex landscape. Take your cell phone, take your social-media handles, laptop, and screenshots of what’s happened.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more information about securing RDP tools: “ Commonly Exploited Protocols: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ” (Center for Internet Security) “ What is remote desktop protocol (RDP)? ” (TechTarget) “ Wondering Whether RDP IS Secure? Collectively, they accounted for 77% of the quarter’s malware infections.

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OTS Solutions

JULY 28, 2022

Open banking has brought a new era in which systems can quickly and easily connect to new platforms and apps. Digital ecosystems that work well together quickly replace physical banks and paper systems. Various kinds of companies, from banks and insurance companies, have been around for 100 years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Many said Awodele carefully monitored students’ social media accounts. At least three students said that they were not allowed to create external social groups with other students. When reached for comment by TechCrunch, Awodele confirmed some allegations and denied others. Mandy withdrew.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). When we think about Carry1st, we want to be the leading consumer internet company in the region. L-R: Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu, Lucy Hoffman and Cordel Robbin-Coker.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. After years of light regulation, the Federal Trade Commission and , separately, 49 state attorneys general are suing to break up social networking company.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2023

How do you define ‘best-in-class’ from a social perspective? I think about this in the context of a ‘relationship bank.’ When we are in the office and having impromptu discussions about our personal lives, or getting a meal together, or having non-work-related discussions, we are making deposits into the relationship bank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Infogrid’s platform combines IoT sensors with proprietary AI analysis and has had some success re-vamping facilities management (FM) for some of the world’s largest FM providers, such as global banks, supermarkets, restaurant chains and the NHS.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2023

As consumers embrace ecommerce, digital banking, and online payment applications, the risk of fraud and other financial crimes has increased dramatically. And for every dollar lost to fraud, banks spend over $4 on recovery fees, legal fees, and other expenses. The stakes for financial organizations are growing as well. In 2021, U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Tiger gets its claws into Slice : Getting a bank account can be easy; getting credit, not so much. Internet of downswings : IoT has become one of the top vectors of hacker attacks, and Ordr just raised $40 million to monitor the 35 billion devices online, Kyle reports. Also, this was the day we learned about fuzzing. Fascinating!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Horizon is today announcing its first close of $125 million for the fund, its fourth, with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) pitching in $30 million as an anchor investor. and Catherine T. Some of those efforts had a very tech focus, as we have previously chronicled.). billion the year before.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. Power’s first product is a credit card issuance program, which is designed for companies, brands and banks to offer fintech experiences, such as customized credit card programs, targeted promotions and personalized rewards, embedded into existing mobile and web applications.

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The Parallax

MAY 7, 2018

How Spain is waging Internet war on Catalan separatists. But finding that SiliVaccine was laced with the Jaku malware , which would enable North Korea to spy on the Internet activity of the users the software was ostensibly protecting, was enough to raise their eyebrows. Tom Ridge on how we should fight our ‘digital war’ (Q&A).

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

Despite an evolving internet penetration rate of 47% in 2020, according to Internet World statistics, the social use of ICTs remains the main cause of digital illiteracy in Africa. Nigeria is the first to launch national digital currencies by the central bank (CBDC) in October 2021.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

I'm again privileged to have an incredible "kid" share his wisdom on the role of intrapreneurship in social business. It's becoming more accepted in 'regular' business so let's apply it to social as well. Mobile recruitment bridges this gap in regions where access to mobile is on average 3 times greater than the Internet.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As Latin America bathes the startup spotlight, players there need to consider how its startup growth can translate to self-sustaining economic and social development across the board. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, over the next 10 years, digitized public services alone could stimulate 5.7

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With the rise of remote and hybrid work in the past few years, adversaries and other bad actors have been given a virtual buffet of new ways to launch their harmful attacks, as more documents than ever are shared across the Internet. Develop a plan to protect personally identifying information (PII).

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Tenable

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The six-year cyber conspiracy netted North Koreas government at least $88 million , as it banked the IT workers hefty salaries and extortion payments. The fact sheet Internet-Exposed HMIs Pose Cybersecurity Risks to Water and Wastewater Systems is aimed at helping water and wastewater systems facilities harden remote access to HMIs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this case this nation mission has the goal to turn Spain into the entrepreneurial nation with the greatest social impact in history,” says Polo. I think in our generation we don’t understand creating a new innovation system or a new industrial-economic system if we are not also talking about its social impact,” says Polo.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? Good stuff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s also worth noting that despite having a marketing slogan which paints itself as “your bank of things”, Twig is not actually a bank; rather a Twig account is an “e-money account” — so there are key regulatory differences (such as Twig accounts not being covered by the UK’s deposit guarantee scheme).

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