Investors’ pledge to fight spyware undercut by past investments in US malware maker Cyber investors announced commitments to fighting spyware, but at least one firm previously invested in an exploit maker.
Now, some investors have announced that they too are committed to fighting spyware.
More recently, the government has imposed economic sanctions not only on companies, but also directly on the executive who founded Intellexa.
To hear some of these investors talk, you’d think that spyware has no place in a free and open society.
Gula Tech and Paladin’s investment in Boldend — effectively a U.S.-based exploit and hacking software maker — and the two investment firms’ commitment to not invest in spyware companies might seem at odds.
For instance, OpenSea has partnered with the music and arts festival conglomerate Coachella to release three NFT collections that offer both virtual and tangible real-life VIP experiences and merchandise.
The partnership will eventually produce three collections offering different perks and varying tiers of exclusivity (as well as cost).
There have been a lot of NFT collections announced since the term even gained adoption.
OpenSea alone has over 2 million collections and 80 million NFTs on its marketplace, according to its website.
But even with that much total volume, OpenSea isn’t the biggest NFT marketplace today.
Threads says it will make its API broadly available by JuneMeta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
Engineer Jesse Chen posted that the company has been building the API for the past few months.
The API currently allows users to authenticate, publish threads and fetch the content they post through these tools.
Last October, Instagram head Adam Mosseri first confirmed that the social platform is working on an API to enable third-party experiences.
While Meta has committed to adopting ActivityPub protocol for Threads and joining the fediverse, the company hasn’t spoken openly about allowing developers to build alternative Threads clients.
“More big partners kept coming and closing with us, pushing to get on our roadmap,” Betesh told TechCrunch.
Coverdash offers small businesses, e-commerce merchants and freelancers the ability to buy business insurance in areas like business owner’s policies, cyber and worker’s compensation.
Businesses then answer a few questions, select a policy and get coverage in minutes.
That comes with some requirements, like having liability insurance for board directors and company officers and other management, Betesh explained.
“It all kind of fell into place really quickly, and in over two weeks, we had offers from multiple firms.
Erick Coser and Otávio Costa Miranda moved back to Brazil in 2019 to solve a large, yet unsolved problem in Latin America.
Meanwhile in São Paulo, that is one camera per thousand people.
Coser and Costa Miranda drew on the experiences of Europe to create Gabriel in 2020.
The company integrates cameras and computer vision with routine police operations to address public safety challenges across Latin America.
That walks side-by-side with strong investments in the takeover of São Paulo in 2024 and preparations for launching new cities in 2025.”
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Witte spoke to the duo about being early to the online language industry and how the company has survived these past 20 years of market disruption.
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The responses to his tweet are split between the two factions that have appeared within venture in recent years: those who support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and those who do not.
Wealthy power players like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have been very outspoken against the premise of DEI, with their thoughts shared and spread widely throughout the ecosystem.
“DEI must DIE.
DEI received a lot of support after the murder of George Floyd back in 2020, but support has waned these past few years.
In a sense, they were right, and the decreased DEI support in business and tech has created ripple effects.
Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a new app to do so.
Globetrotter is today introducing a location-based travel photos app that lets you look back on your past travels and share your memories and stats out to other social apps, like Instagram and others.
In addition to sharing your travel highlights and looking back on past trips, Globetrotter also has a feature called “2023 Wrapped,” which leverages the popularity of Spotify Wrapped to showcase your travels for the year, in a similar “year in review” format.
He said the idea of building a travel app appealed to him because he also enjoys taking photos on his trips and wanted a way to look back at his past travels in a new way.
The app includes a social element, too, where you can add friends and then compete on a travel leaderboard which shows your statistics.
