Tag: TechCrunch

Cybersecurity – The Accellion data breach continues to get messier (Carly Page, TechCrunch)

Morgan Stanley has joined the growing list of Accellion hack victims — more than six months after attackers first breached the vendor’s 20-year-old file-sharing product.  The Accellion...

TechInnovation – PowerZ raises $8.3 million for its video game focused on education (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

French startup PowerZ has raised another $8.3 million (€7 million at today’s exchange rate) including $1.2 million (€1 million) in debt — the rest is a...

TechInnovation – Indonesian edtech startup Gredu raises $4M Series A to keep teachers, parents and students engaged with one another (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and...

TechInnovation – TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

A new pilot program from TikTok would inject a little LinkedIn into the youthful video-based social network. TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly...

TechInnovation – Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising (Jalal Nasir, TechCrunch)

Programmatic advertising is a $200 billion global marketplace that is rapidly growing and far-reaching, with Connected TV (CTV) serving as its latest accelerant. Unfortunately, however, it’s...

TechInnovation – Kobo Elipsa review: A sized-up e-reading companion with clever note taking (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Kobo’s Elipsa is the latest in the Amazon rival’s e-reading line, and it’s a big one. The 10.3-inch e-paper display brings it up to iPad...

TechInnovation – DeFi investor platform Zerion raises $8.2 million Series A (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

While crypto exchanges have demystified some of the largest cryptocurrencies for retail investors, many of the intricacies of decentralized finance are still lost on...

TechInnovation – Osso VR raises $27 million to turn surgery into a video game (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

Virtual reality did not turn into the ultimate office replacement telepresence machine during the pandemic — and it wasn’t for lack of trying —...

TechInnovation – WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the...

USA – The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed...

TechInnovation – r2c raises $27M to scale its security-focused code analysis service (Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch)

This morning r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Felicis led...

TechInnovation – Gettr, the latest pro-Trump social network, is already a mess (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

Well, that was fast. Just days after a Twitter clone from former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller launched, the new social network is already beset...

TechInnovation – Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response (Danny Crichton, TechCrunch)

The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and complexity of disasters worldwide. Just in the past...

TechInnovation – Twitter shares its ideas around new privacy features, including a way to hide your account from searches (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

Twitter today has shared a few more ideas it’s thinking about in terms of new features around conversation health and privacy. This includes a...

TechInnovation/Defense – Nobody wins as DoD finally pulls the plug on controversial $10B JEDI contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

After several years of fighting and jockeying for position by the biggest cloud infrastructure companies in the world, the Pentagon finally pulled the plug...

TechInnovation – Allozymes looks to upend chemical manufacturing with rapid enzyme engineering and $5M seed (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Part of the complex process that turns raw materials into finished products like detergents, cosmetics and flavors relies on enzymes, which facilitate chemical transformations....