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Become a Prime Day Pro With These Tips and 16 Early DealsAmazon’s big two-day sale event starts soon. Get prepped with our expert advice and the best discounts we’ve found so... Read more »- The Cl0p Bust Shows Exactly Why Ransomware Isn’t Going AwayUkrainian authorities managed to make some high-profile arrests. But nothing’s going to change until Russia does the same.... Read more »
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- ●PUBG Mobile returns to Google Play Store in India with new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, after being banned for nine months on national security grounds (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)Manish Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG Mobile returns to Google Play Store in India with new name Battlegrounds Mobile India, after being banned for nine months on national security grounds — Krafton, which filed for an IPO earlier this week, has built a gigantic gaming empire. If the firm is able... Read more »
- ●Senate confirms ex-NSA director Chris Inglis as national cyber director; Congress still has not funded his office, despite authorizing him to hire 75 employees (Eric Geller/Politico)Eric Geller / Politico: Senate confirms ex-NSA director Chris Inglis as national cyber director; Congress still has not funded his office, despite authorizing him to hire 75 employees — Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, will confront the mammoth task of streamlining the government's approach to a growing crisis.... Read more »
- ●Splash Financial, a digital lending platform specializing in student loan refinancing, raises $44.3M Series B led by DST Global, Citi Ventures, and more (Jeremy Nobile/Crain's Cleveland Business)Jeremy Nobile / Crain's Cleveland Business: Splash Financial, a digital lending platform specializing in student loan refinancing, raises $44.3M Series B led by DST Global, Citi Ventures, and more — Cleveland's Splash Financial, a digital lending platform specializing in student loan refinancing, has announced the close …... Read more »
- ●APK teardown of new version of Google Play Services suggests that Google is working to build an Android device network like Apple's Find My (Mishaal Rahman/XDA Developers)Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: APK teardown of new version of Google Play Services suggests that Google is working to build an Android device network like Apple's Find My — Because Apple tightly controls the iOS ecosystem, they're able to build a massive, crowdsourced network of devices that can help... Read more »
- ●Seattle-based Leafly, which runs an online marketplace for cannabis, raises $23M from existing investors; Leafly has 120M annual visitors (Laurel Deppen/GeekWire)Laurel Deppen / GeekWire: Seattle-based Leafly, which runs an online marketplace for cannabis, raises $23M from existing investors; Leafly has 120M annual visitors — Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company.... Read more »
- ●23andMe goes public via merger with a Richard Branson SPAC, raises $600M in IPO at a valuation of $3.5B; shares were up 21% on its first day at Nasdaq (Eric Rosenbaum/CNBC)Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: 23andMe goes public via merger with a Richard Branson SPAC, raises $600M in IPO at a valuation of $3.5B; shares were up 21% on its first day at Nasdaq — - 23andMe, the genetic testing company that pioneered the business of personalized gene testing kits, traded... Read more »
- ●JPMorgan buys UK-based digital wealth manager Nutmeg, which has 140K+ customers and about $5B in assets under management; sources say deal is worth about $1B (Simon Clark/Wall Street Journal)Simon Clark / Wall Street Journal: JPMorgan buys UK-based digital wealth manager Nutmeg, which has 140K+ customers and about $5B in assets under management; sources say deal is worth about $1B — Digital wealth manager Nutmeg has around 140,000 customers and $5 billion in assets — JPMorgan Chase & Co.... Read more »
- ●Transform, which develops tools for businesses to query and build metrics from data troves, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A, after $4.5M seed in 2020 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Transform, which develops tools for businesses to query and build metrics from data troves, comes out of stealth with $20M Series A, after $4.5M seed in 2020 — The biggest tech companies have put a lot of time and money into building tools and platforms for... Read more »
- Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Spotify has acquired Podz, a podcast discovery startup whose tech helps podcasters promote their show using ML to select 60-second clips of key moments — Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz …... Read more »
- Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public (Johana Bhuiyan/Los Angeles Times)Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: Emails from 2016 show Ring provided ~100 LAPD officers with free devices or discount codes and encouraged them to promote its devices to fellow LAPD, the public — In a bid to bolster its claims as a crime-fighting tool, Ring deployed a tactic popular... Read more »
How remote work opened the floodgates to ransomware- Interview 1649 – James Corbett Destroys the China War PropagandaIn today's edition of The Redpill Series, James Corbett joins Patrick MacFarlane on the Liberty Weekly podcast for a hard-hitting, information-packed and wide-ranging conversation on the 2D China vs. US war narrative that is being steered by the war propagandists and the 3D China + US reality underneath. In addition... Read more »
- Meet the World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum does not run the world, but in this time of The Great Reset and The Fourth Industrial Revolution you'd be forgiven for thinking so. Today on The Corbett Report podcast, join James for a wild ride through the murky origins of the WEF's past into the... Read more »
- Episode 403 – Meet the World Economic ForumThe World Economic Forum does not run the world, but in this time of The Great Reset and The Fourth Industrial Revolution you'd be forgiven for thinking so. Today on The Corbett Report podcast, join James for a wild ride through the murky origins of the WEF's past into the... Read more »
- Vaxlympics, Cyber Polygon, Good News – New World Next WeekThis week on the New World Next Week: Tokyo braces for the Olympics; the world braces for Cyber Polygon; and some not-unmitigated good news leads us into the summer break.... Read more »
Interview 1649 – James Corbett Destroys the China War Propaganda