The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind. The headquarters of A.P. Møller-Maersk sits beside the breezy, cobblestoned esplanade of Copenhagen’s harbor. A ship’s mast carrying the Danish flag is planted by the […]

Amazon-backed lending platform Capital Float buys consumer finance startup Walnut

India-based lending platform Capital Float has been busy raising capital, having closed an Amazon-led $22 million extension to its $45 million Series C last year —  now it’s putting some of that capital work after it acquired personal finance service Walnut. The acquisition is $30 million […]

Vaccini, 600 famiglie milanesi non in regola, il Comune: “Senza documenti non si entra”

Gli annunci, le smentite, le polemiche politiche contano zero. Le legge sui vaccini a scuola, almeno per quest’anno, non è cambiata. Senza certificato, all’asilo, non si entra.E’ quanto ricorda il Comune di Milano nelle oltre 600 mail inviate alle famiglie di bambini non ancora in […]

All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2

From yeast-grown Cannibinoids to project management software to consumer apps looking to gauge opinions on college campuses, there was quite the wide variety of spaces represented on the second day of pitches from Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 class. As we noted yesterday, B2B software and […]