Month: December 2020
Zephr raises $8M to help news publishers grow subscription revenue
Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann). The London-headquarted startup’s customers already include publishers like McClatchy, News Corp Australia, Dennis Publishing and PEI Media. CEO James Henderson told me via email that rather than creating “a…
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Revel pulls electric mopeds after failing to make a dent in Austin’s car culture
Shared electric moped startup Revel said Friday that it will shut down its service in Austin later this month. The startup’s CEO and co-founder Frank Reig didn’t place the entire blame on the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused ridership to fall across shared micromobility services as well as public transit,…
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PrimaHealth Credit offers a buy-now, pay-later lending service for elective procedures
The Newport Beach, Calif.-based healthcare lending service PrimaHealth Credit is now pitching point-of-sale lending services for elective medical procedures. Taking the kinds of financial lending services that have been popularized by companies like Klarna and Affirm, PrimaHealth Credit is bringing them into elective surgical space for things like cataract surgery,…
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Metal Gear Solid movie will star Oscar Isaac as Solid Snake Metal Gear Solid 5
The long-gestating Metal Gear Solid movie from Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has found its lead actor: Oscar Isaac, best known as Poe Dameron from the Star Wars sequel trilogy, will play soldier and stealth specialist Solid Snake. This news comes from Deadline, which suggests momentum on actually making…
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Metal Gear Solid movie to star Oscar Isaac as Solid Snake
Sony’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation will star Oscar Isaac as protagonist Solid Snake, according to Deadline. You might be familiar with Isaac as Resistance fighter Poe Dameron in the latest Star Wars film trilogy and his upcoming role as Duke Leto Atreides in Dune, and I think he…
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Mitigating rising vulnerabilities in industrial control systems Zero-day attack
An increasing number of vulnerabilities are leaving our critical national infrastructure (CNI) exposed to cyberattacks from threat actors with geopolitical or corporate espionage motives, looking to cause disruption, economic harm or damage the health and wellbeing of citizens. These vulnerabilities are being found in the industrial control systems (ICS) that…
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