[ad_1] A big heads-up and a hearty shoutout to all you savvy startup shoppers, budget-minded founders and tech enthusiasts who love to hang on to your money. You have just one week left to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt. Beat the price hike on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Buy your Disrupt pass before … Read more
[ad_1] Hackers behind the mass-exploitation of a vulnerability in the popular corporate file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer have accessed the protected health information of 1.7 million Oregon citizens. Performance Health Technology (PH Tech), a company that provides data management services to U.S. healthcare insurers, confirmed in a notice this week that it was impacted by … Read more
[ad_1] For our 60th (yes, there’s 60 of them now!) pitch deck teardown, we’re taking a closer look at a $1.5 million pre-seed round and the deck that helped raise it. Tulsa-based startup SquadTrip tells me it raised its first institutional funding from Atento Capital, Forum Ventures and others at a pre-money valuation of $6 … Read more
[ad_1] India is delaying the implementation of its import limitations on laptops, tablets, and servers, a day after the unexpected regulation left electronic industry giants in a state of disruption and uncertainty. New Delhi will provide a “transition period” before implementing the amended import policy, India’s Deputy IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Friday. The government … Read more
[ad_1] Another former Twitter app developer has turned their attention to Mastodon in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover which put an end to third-party clients. Launching today, a new app from the developer of the Twitter app Chirp is bringing Mastodon’s social network to your Apple Watch. Stomp, as the new app is … Read more
[ad_1] Apple’s services business now has more than 1 billion paying subscribers, the company said during its third-quarter results conference call. The company’s services portfolio comprises iCloud, Music, Fitness+, Pay, Apple Card, and Apple TV+, and it added 150 million subscribers over the past 12 months, the company said. The tech giant registered $21.2 billion … Read more
[ad_1] A man and a woman sunbathe at a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 2, 2023 as the country’s capital breaks a record for hottest start to August in 117 years.Photo: Natacha Pisarenko (AP) Buenos Aires in Argentina saw an especially hot start to this August, and temperatures spiked above 30 degrees Celsius … Read more
[ad_1] As we saw with the collapse of FTX, the Web3 space leaves a lot to be desired in terms of transparent information about companies, fundings, management and a slew of other data that really is commonplace and ‘de rigueur’ in the ‘normal’ tech industry. And there are far too many so-called ‘Web3 analyst’ houses … Read more
[ad_1] A groundbreaking demonstration by the European Space Agency (ESA) suggests it’s possible to deorbit satellites safely and in a reasonably controlled manner, even for those not originally designed for such maneuvers. Taking out the Trash (in Space) As planned, the Aeolus Earth Explorer satellite met its demise above Antarctica on July 28 at around … Read more
[ad_1] Get ready for a version of TikTok you’ve never seen before! Without the hyper-sticky, AI-driven ‘For You’ feed… The video sharing platform has announced that TikTok users in the European Union will “soon” be able to switch off its infamously engaging content-selection algorithm as it prepares to comply with the bloc’s updated digital rulebook. The … Read more