Category: Technology & Digitalization

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Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $133M Series C, bringing its total raised to $179M (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises $133M Series C, bringing its total raised to $179M  —  Fireblocks has raised a $133 million Series C funding round led by Coatue, Ribbit, and Stripes.  The company provides several products that let you store, transfer and issue digital assets.


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Source says China’s Tuya, which provides an Internet of Things platform for developers and consumers, is on track to raise $915M in a US IPO (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)

Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg:Source says China’s Tuya, which provides an Internet of Things platform for developers and consumers, is on track to raise $915M in a US IPO  —  – Tencent-backed firm’s shares set to price above marketed range  — Company’s cloud platform used to manage smart devices


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Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €35M Series C led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture (Steve O’Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch:Paris-based Cubyn, which lets e-merchants outsource fulfillment and delivery logistics, raises €35M Series C led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture  —  Cubyn, the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding.


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Google says it will invest $7B+ in offices and data centers across the US and create at least 10K new full-time Google jobs in the US this year (Sundar Pichai/The Keyword)

Sundar Pichai / The Keyword:Google says it will invest $7B+ in offices and data centers across the US and create at least 10K new full-time Google jobs in the US this year  —  One of the best parts of my job is getting the opportunity to visit the communities that Google is a part of…
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Researcher shares method for hiding ~3MB of data, like ZIP archives, in Twitter images and says Twitter ruled out a security bug bounty for an earlier method (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:Researcher shares method for hiding ~3MB of data, like ZIP archives, in Twitter images and says Twitter ruled out a security bug bounty for an earlier method  —  Yesterday, a researcher disclosed a method of hiding up to three MB of data inside a Twitter image.


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Ghost Data report exposes a multi-million dollar business of wholesalers using Instagram to sell fake Apple accessories such as counterfeit AirPods worldwide (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg:Ghost Data report exposes a multi-million dollar business of wholesalers using Instagram to sell fake Apple accessories such as counterfeit AirPods worldwide  —  – Report finds Chinese counterfeit Apple goods flood social site  — Apple says it urges removal of 1 million online listings


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A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems  —  Last summer we wrote about the PACT Act from Senators Brian Schatz and John Thune — one of the rare bipartisan attempts to reform Section…
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Germany’s data protection watchdog tells European Parliament that Germany had “sent 50+ complaints about WhatsApp” to the Irish DPC and none had been closed (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:Germany’s data protection watchdog tells European Parliament that Germany had “sent 50+ complaints about WhatsApp” to the Irish DPC and none had been closed  —  Simmering tensions about alleged lack of enforcement by Dublin burst into public  —  Long-simmering tensions …


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Republic, which lets non-accredited investors invest as little as $10 in startups, raises $36M Series A led by Galaxy Digital; Republic has over 1M users (Matthew Leising/Bloomberg)

Matthew Leising / Bloomberg:Republic, which lets non-accredited investors invest as little as $10 in startups, raises $36M Series A led by Galaxy Digital; Republic has over 1M users  —  – Republic private investment has risen four times in last year  — Broadhaven, Prosus also take part in latest funding round


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FBI says $4.2B in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud were reported to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2020, up about 20% YoY (Jeff Stone/CyberScoop)

Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:FBI says $4.2B in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud were reported to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2020, up about 20% YoY  —  American victims reported $4.2 billion in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud to the FBI in 2020, a roughly 20% uptick…
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