Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding, becoming the country’s first unicorn with a valuation of $1.16 billion. Uzbekistan is fertile ground for startups, given the fact that people […]
Day: March 26, 2024
AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups
A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical also heating up. Runa Capital, the venture capital (VC) firm that upped sticks from Silicon Valley and moved its HQ to […]
Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending one-time SMS passwords to other users attempting to log into the platform, raising […]
Flash News | Mar 26 2024 | Global Events Today
Crises and Political Shifts – Today’s news highlights include Gaza’s ceasefire calls amid escalating violence, Baltimore’s bridge collapse disaster, Venezuela’s electoral turmoil, Julian Assange’s extradition battle, political resignations in India,…
Canva acquires Affinity to fill the Adobe-sized holes in its design suite
Affinity’s professional design software could give Canva the edge it needs to seriously compete against Adobe. | Image: Canva Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital design industry. Canva announced […]
AI is a data problem. Now Cyera is raising up to $300M on a $1.5B valuation, to secure it
A cybersecurity startup called Cyera is betting that the next big challenge in enterprise data protection will be AI, and it’s raising a big round of funding as demand picks up for it. The company — which builds AI-enhanced tools to create accurate pictures of […]
Amazon Big Spring Sale: All of the best tech deals still available today
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has officially ended but a few deals are still going strong. While this latest event wasn’t on the level of a Prime Day or a Black Friday sale, over the past week we found decent savings on some of the gadgets […]
Amazon Big Spring Sale: All of the best tech deals still available today
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale has officially ended but a few deals are still going strong. While this latest event wasn’t on the level of a Prime Day or a Black Friday sale, over the past week we found decent savings on some of the gadgets […]
Helldivers 2 dominates sales — for democracy! | Circana February 2024
Helldivers 2 has dethroned Call of Duty from the top of the Circana sales charts, dominated both best-seller lists for February.
Bankrupt EV startup Arrival sold its assets to Canoo
Bankrupt commercial EV startup Arrival has sold some of its assets, including advanced manufacturing equipment to Canoo, another struggling startup trying to build and sell electric vehicles. The acquisition, which was touted as a cost-saving measure that will reduce capital expenditures by 20%, comes as […]