US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015 (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since…
Read more » Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe (Megha Paul/Tech.eu)
Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Deepki, a Parisian provider of an ESG data intelligence platform for real estate, raises a €150M Series C round co-led by One Peak and Highland Europe — …
Read more » Analysis: news publishers raised nearly $12M from selling NFTs since March 2021; Time Magazine earned the most with $10M+ and The New York Times made $560K (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
Bron Maher / Press Gazette: Analysis: news publishers raised nearly $12M from selling NFTs since March 2021; Time Magazine earned the most with $10M+ and The New York Times made $560K …
Read more » Filings: Walmart-backed Flipkart’s invested $116M in Indian fashion retailer Myntra, part of the $800M Flipkart invested in other businesses in March (Pranav Balakrishnan/The Economic Times)
Pranav Balakrishnan / The Economic Times: Filings: Walmart-backed Flipkart’s invested $116M in Indian fashion retailer Myntra, part of the $800M Flipkart invested in other businesses in March — The new investment…
Read more » India’s ban on Chinese apps, including TikTok, has allowed homegrown short-video apps like Josh to thrive; Josh has 150M+ MAUs and a $5B valuation as of April (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India’s ban on Chinese apps, including TikTok, has allowed homegrown short-video apps like Josh to thrive; Josh has 150M+ MAUs and a $5B valuation as of April …
Read more » Sources: Truth Social’s CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following a troubled launch for the Trump-backed social network (Reuters)
Reuters: Sources: Truth Social’s CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following a troubled launch for the Trump-backed social network — The two Southern tech entrepreneurs had…
Read more » Sky Mavis: Axie Infinity DAUs had fallen 45% from a November peak to 1.48M for the week ending March 28, a day before Ronin’s ~$600M crypto hack was announced (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:Sky Mavis: Axie Infinity DAUs had fallen 45% from a November peak to 1.48M for the week ending March 28, a day before Ronin’s ~$600M crypto hack was…
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The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts— The White House is taking a victory lap…
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A look at OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc, and others that help businesses navigate the increasingly fragmented privacy rules and policies of the global internet (David McCabe / New York Times)
Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter and more, amid lingering concerns over COVID-19 – Microsoft joins Intel, GM, Amazon and Google in canceling – Microsoft is…
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The DoD took back the 175 million IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; The DoD says its timeline was “agnostic” the change of administrator (Craig Timberg / Washington Post)
The DoD took back the 175 million IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; DoD says its timeline was “agnostic” to board change– Control…
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